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

davidbarker an hour ago | parent | next [-]

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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poglet an hour ago | parent [-]

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 an hour ago \| parent [-]
		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).

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mixdup 30 minutes ago | parent | prev | next [-]

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

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muglug an hour ago | parent | prev | next [-]

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.

	▲	davidbarker an hour ago \| parent [-]
		Do you have any notes/write-up on that? I'd love to read.

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windows2020 an hour ago | parent | prev [-]

I've always been fond of the red blue gradient one which I imagine to be an Arizona desert.

	▲	davidbarker an hour ago \| parent [-]
		Username checks out.