About Flagella
Flagella is an algorithmic type treatment that uses the glyph outlines of standard font formats, like TrueType and OpenType, to produce hairy, thorny, frippery glyphs.

The use of a programmable dynamic treatment can produce interesting result, like animated glyphs that smoothly reveal themselves.

Type specimen video
> low quality [vimeo]
> high quality [quicktime]

Flagella was built with Processing and NextText. It allows to easily adjust parameters to create different styles (e.g. light, bold, chaotic, hairy, thorny, etc) and generate slightly different result each time a glyph is rendered.
> applet (requires java 1.5+)