Halloween is cute and scary!

Halloween is an unusual holiday in that it can be very cute and fun or scary and fearful. We wondered if this was also true with Jack O' Lantern clip art. So we’ve done an analysis looking at scary and cute Jack O' Lantern clip art. The result might scare you or fill you with cute, joyful warmth.

Our analysis looked at over a thousand pieces of Jack O' Lantern clip art separated by the search terms scary and cute. Taking their titles, we then evaluated their semantic value, judging each title based on how positive, negative, and exciting it was. Finally, we extracted a number of design features to compare a group of scary and cute Jack O' Lantern clip art.