Mac computer-generated layout app?

January 11, 2006 3:45 PM

Mac computer-generated layout app?

I seem to recall a strange freeware program that randomized fonts, colors, placement, etc and produced some (rather cliché) designs, but cannot locate the app. Anyone know what I'm talking about? I believe it ran in OS9/Classic; not sure if there have been any recent updates. Google ain't helpin' as it was named something funny.

posted by icetaco to Computers & Internet (5 answers total)

Designs of what?
posted by jjg at 4:09 PM on January 11, 2006

ah, you must be thinking about StrangeBanana.
posted by charmston at 4:31 PM on January 11, 2006

No, it wasn't web design - it created print designs for brochures, cd's, etc... One could select among different styles and input copy, and the app would make layouts for you with included imagery. Unless all of this was just a vivid hallucination.
posted by icetaco at 4:49 PM on January 11, 2006

My first post, so excited! I think the software you are thinking of is n_Gen by movedesign, which takes some text input and spits out fully designed mockups according to certain stylistic templates. Check it out here. Interface is flash, the software is under works, then research.
posted by subtle-t at 5:10 PM on January 11, 2006

n_Gen is it! Thanks a bunch, first-poster.
posted by icetaco at 9:35 AM on January 27, 2006