Comment by davidbarker

7 hours ago

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.)

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QuantumNomad_  29 minutes ago

Very nice! Would you consider making it open source and sharing it on GitHub? I’d love to be able to easily install it locally on my machine and also to reuse the retro look of it for my own other local tools.

pjmlp  3 hours ago

Thanks, but if fails short without a dot matrix printer to go alongside it, to print out those hanging banners. :)

hotelsacher  1 hour ago

I feel like I should be able to crash the Windows behind this page by triggering some bug in the app.

poglet  7 hours ago

Brought back many memories. There were also some fonts that added 'shimmer' and 'sparkle' text. You didn't run up a Win98 VM and install the old Word? Great job at making it all by screenshots and eye.

  • davidbarker  7 hours ago

    Wonderful.

    I never thought of that, actually. Perhaps I should as I don't remember shimmer or sparkle. I'll see if I can find some examples (if you happen to know of any I can reference please send them over).