# Generative Design Library
**URL:** https://discourse.processing.org/t/generative-design-library/31073
**Category:** Libraries
**Created:** [July 5, 2021, 3:34pm UTC](https://discourse.processing.org/t/generative-design-library/31073 "2021-07-05T15:34:34Z")
**Posts on this page:** 8
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### Author:  [@Kingjuleyann](https://discourse.processing.org/u/Kingjuleyann)
#### Post date: [July 5, 2021, 3:34pm UTC](https://discourse.processing.org/t/generative-design-library/31073/1 "2021-07-05T15:34:34Z")
hello, I have been searching for a way to outline my text in the program I’m making and found a topic recomending the use of the “Generative Design” library. I’ve looked at the reference and on the internet but I don’t find any clear explanations about how to use this library. Would someone mind telling me how to work with the library please?
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### Author:  [@micuat](https://discourse.processing.org/u/micuat)
#### Post date: [July 6, 2021, 11:52am UTC](https://discourse.processing.org/t/generative-design-library/31073/2 "2021-07-06T11:52:07Z")
have you looked at the examples?
> **[generative-design/GenerativeDesignLibrary3](https://github.com/generative-design/GenerativeDesignLibrary3/tree/master/examples)**
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> master/examples
also their book seems to have examples that uses the same library
> **[generative-design/Code-Package-Processing-3.x](https://github.com/generative-design/Code-Package-Processing-3.x/search?q=import%2Bgenerativedesign)**
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> Code package of the book Generative Design for Processing 3.x - generative-design/Code-Package-Processing-3.x
I never used this library so I don’t exactly know if it’s possible to make font outlines. I know that geomerative has a nice set of tools for generating vertices from text
> **[rikrd/geomerative](https://github.com/rikrd/geomerative/tree/master/examples/Tutorial_07_HelloWorld_getPoints)**
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> master/examples/Tutorial\_07\_HelloWorld\_getPoints
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### Author:  [@Kingjuleyann](https://discourse.processing.org/u/Kingjuleyann)
#### Post date: [July 6, 2021, 11:54am UTC](https://discourse.processing.org/t/generative-design-library/31073/3 "2021-07-06T11:54:50Z")
what are vertices? I never heard about that.
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### Author:  [@micuat](https://discourse.processing.org/u/micuat)
#### Post date: [July 6, 2021, 12:03pm UTC](https://discourse.processing.org/t/generative-design-library/31073/4 "2021-07-06T12:03:11Z")
if you are not familiar with processing, I recommend you to follow Dan’s tutorials 🙂 🚂
[ ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NLzne4XaR3M)
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### Author:  [@Kingjuleyann](https://discourse.processing.org/u/Kingjuleyann)
#### Post date: [July 6, 2021, 12:31pm UTC](https://discourse.processing.org/t/generative-design-library/31073/5 "2021-07-06T12:31:00Z")
Thanks for the tutorial, but it doesn’t learn me something I didn’t already knew about processing and it doesn’t answer the questions I asked.
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### Author:  [@Chrisir](https://discourse.processing.org/u/Chrisir)
#### Post date: [July 6, 2021, 6:03pm UTC](https://discourse.processing.org/t/generative-design-library/31073/6 "2021-07-06T18:03:57Z")
vertex is a basic concept.
Just google it or You can also learn more here:
[https://processing.org/tutorials/pshape/](https://processing.org/tutorials/pshape/)
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### Author:  [@Kingjuleyann](https://discourse.processing.org/u/Kingjuleyann)
#### Post date: [July 6, 2021, 8:38pm UTC](https://discourse.processing.org/t/generative-design-library/31073/7 "2021-07-06T20:38:49Z")
Thanks @Chrisir. So now that this question is answered, can anyone tell me how to use the “Generative Design” library please?
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### Author:  [@Chrisir](https://discourse.processing.org/u/Chrisir)
#### Post date: [July 6, 2021, 8:44pm UTC](https://discourse.processing.org/t/generative-design-library/31073/8 "2021-07-06T20:44:09Z")
Just check the examples shown to you above
It’s all in there
Do some research there please.