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Show HN: TitleArt – Make text like it's 1997

davidbarker

Comments (19)

  • MrFiskarBengt
    Nobody asked for this!
  • davidbarker
    I wanted to make a faithful recreation of the original WordArt so I went through the various screenshots I could find and tweaked the built-in styles by eye. It's pretty fun to play with, and I didn't realise it would take me back to sitting in the ICT computer rooms at my school in the late '90s.Enjoy!And please feel free to share anything you make with me — I'd love to see. (Contact details in the help menu.)
  • matsemann
    At around 10 years old, I remember spending more time on the word art for my titles than the rest of the paper for school projects, heh.Also remember that I set up some kind of templating, where I could print the same document multiple times, but it would go down a list of values. So I could print personalized birthday invitations, I felt so cool 8)
  • mixdup
    One of the weirdest bits of 90s tech trivia: Scott Forstall, who was in charge of software at Apple when the iPhone was initially developed, when working as an Intern at Microsoft contributed to the development of WordArt: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scott_Forstall#Present
  • muglug
    I had some fun adding WordArt support to Slack's Word document renderer.Turns out that WordArt is still feasible in modern-day Word, but it's really fiddly.
  • bozdemir
    I miss 90s CorelDRAW, it reminds me of that. Thanks for the nostalgia fill.
  • morikyouko
    Is there any plans to support CJK fonts or to release the source code so others can contribute? I'm so disappointed it doesn't support my language! https://www.makewordart.com/ supports a wider character set but is no where near as good otherwise.
  • symbolhunter
    Man, this takes me back! The internet felt like a different place back then.
  • eis3nheim
    This just bought back memories, I used to play with it for hours when I was a kid.
  • halflife
    I remember having Word 5 installed on my pc, while the other classmates had Word 97. I was so jealous for their wordart!
  • windows2020
    I've always been fond of the red blue gradient one which I imagine to be an Arizona desert.
  • ReplyIntelligen
    haha thats a blast from the past !
  • sairajb2249
    Absolutely love this, like its smooth!
  • naeemnur
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