CharCloud

CharCloud is a simple demo project which generates HTML content based on provided plain text input. Generated HTML uses style in a way that every letter's height is inversely proportional to letter frequency in the particular content.

Known available approaches

Generated HTML with individual letters styling

• It's easy and quick for implementation.
• Fits only for small inputs - larger input consumes HW resources for HTML parsing.
• Highly inefficient data bandwidth - serialized output is too large if we consider ratio of serialized styling to real content amount.

Generated both HTML and dedicated font

• Font could be generated and dedicated for the specific input.
• Efficient bandwidth usage.
• Requires suitaible font format selection, font structure knowledge and dynamic font generating during input processing.

CharCloud

• CharCloud is implemented as Maven project for Java platform.
• Generated output is HTML and CSS.
• Individual letters styling approach was chosen for this demo.

Initial setup and launch

• There is no external dependencies except Maven and Java.
• Produced output is generated into root folder.
• Tests and generator with sample scenario can be started via 'mvn test'.