today at 3:48 AM
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 ā I'd love to see. (Contact details in the help menu.)
today at 7:55 AM
Thanks, but if fails short without a dot matrix printer to go alongside it, to print out those hanging banners. :)
today at 7:57 AM
Wow, that landing page was instant nostalgia for me. Well done!
today at 3:55 AM
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.
today at 3:59 AM
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).
today at 5:15 AM
Here -- they were effects you could add on regular text:
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/RHbP2Q7A-Wg
(I still find it mind-boggling that Word 2000 runs mostly just fine on a MacBook with an entirely different OS and processor architecture via Whisky/Wine.)
today at 8:14 AM
Oh this takes me back, what a cool project. Can someone reinvent the internet from that era next please?
today at 4:22 AM
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
today at 6:57 AM
today at 8:24 AM
Absolute legend, Iām going to slap these all over my site
today at 7:59 AM
Who else remembers using BannerMania and printing those endless banners on Epson dot-matrix printers with continuous paper? Man, those were the days! What a nostalgia trip!
today at 3:53 AM
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.
today at 4:00 AM
Do you have any notes/write-up on that? I'd love to read.
today at 5:39 AM
You need to open up a document in Compatibility Mode on a Windows machine. Basically, open an older .doc file (save a blank new document in Word, as a Word 2000 file). You will see it in the "Insert" tab on the ribbon (it's the "A" next to "text box").
today at 6:41 AM
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)
today at 6:15 AM
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.
today at 8:04 AM
I've just added support and it seems to work in the testing I've done. If you find anything that's off, feel free to let me know. Have fun!
today at 6:38 AM
I miss 90s CorelDRAW, it reminds me of that. Thanks for the nostalgia fill.
today at 5:30 AM
I remember having Word 5 installed on my pc, while the other classmates had Word 97. I was so jealous for their wordart!
today at 5:43 AM
Man, this takes me back! The internet felt like a different place back then.
today at 7:57 AM
I do indeed feel the nostalgia
today at 5:07 AM
This just bought back memories, I used to play with it for hours when I was a kid.
today at 4:03 AM
I've always been fond of the red blue gradient one which I imagine to be an Arizona desert.
today at 4:04 AM
Username checks out.
today at 7:50 AM
I used to use Xara 3D
today at 6:38 AM
haha thats a blast from the past !
today at 7:25 AM
Nobody asked for this!
today at 5:47 AM
Absolutely love this, like its smooth!
today at 8:13 AM
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