Rethinking the Font Chooser

Problem: Font chooser are boxes cause more load as one has more fonts.

Font choosing options have barely evolved from the very first days of the Lisa where a user could choose between *gasp* five fonts. Now, there are thousands of fonts and the font chooser boxes look the same.

Solution: Visualize fonts spatially according to useful categoriztions

There exist various categorization methods for fonts: technical, quantitative, typographical, and subjective. Pick some within the list: measured reading speed (quantitative), bitmap versus stroke based (technical), or rankings (subjective); then map the fonts onto a sphere, fictional map (the isle of bitmaps), or plain old grid. That way, a user can pick a font from among other fonts that share the sameessential characteristics, e.g., slow reading speed.

Ah, but were ideas code.