Re: pools. Yeah, I left that open since I’ve found that the existing Flickr typography pools are a little “polluted” and figured that if other people want to start new ones with an editorial or quality control role, then people should be able to share that too.

Re: art projects. To my knowledge, it’s only been used to create a “Greg’s been abducted, you need to come to to see him again” type “ransom note” 30th birthday invitations.

In theory, you just need to add class=”FlickrFont” to any existing HTML elements (paragraphs, headings, tables - or even body - tags) to turn any page into a Flickrfied monstrosity.

Typewritr has amused my five year-old nieces (especially now with the awful sound effects) and inspired some ferocious spelling sessions.

One idea I tried (but abandoned due to alignment difficulty) was to mash this up with the text-image service. I thought it would be cool to take an arbitrary image, convert it to ASCII art text (with text-image) and then convert THAT to a FlickrFont version, so the little letters making up the picture are actually tiny photographs of letters.

So, you get images down with letters done with images … and if the initial image happened to be a photo of a letter … well, you can see I have a geekly interest in recursion :-)

-Greg.

Your webservice reminds me of Kastner’s Spell with Flickr webservice that we discussed here earlier. I still need to read your blog posts and linked articles on the subject. Has anyone used this yet to make any art projects, I wonder….

This has inspired me to make this FlickrFont thing available to web publishers everywhere. Simply add class=”FlickrFont” to any HTML elements that you want Flickrfied and away you go. Read about it on my post on Freshblog.

Cheers,

-Greg.