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Wordle [excellent for brainstorming]

Wordle: ConstitutuionI was directed to this website by my typography instructor for a school assignment, but I immediately fell in love with it. I think it is great for brainstorming and typographically flushing bad design away. The only bad thing [in my opinion] is that while you are able to control all the settings, because the site controls the layout the image you create is technically theirs or [public domain] I am not sire whose it is but I know we cannot claim it as our own.

--designer wannabe--

Ivan's picture

It's a very cool site. I've played with it for 20 minutes straight! :)

Donateko's picture
125 pencils

I can't stop playing with it either.

--designer wannabe--

Anonymous's picture

Worldle images are licensed as creative commons attribution. You can make money off of them.

http://www.wordle.net/faq#money

The problem I have with the site is that there is no good/easy way to export your creations. The best output method is to save as PDF and then extract from there. I wish there was a way to save as a vector image.

Donateko's picture
125 pencils

You could always capture it and then trace t in Ai.

--designer wannabe--

Anonymous's picture

A PDF *is* a vector image.

jHouse's picture
1425 pencils

Actually - thats bollox mate.

Jack

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Anonymous's picture

Not so. Though .pdf can contain raster images it can also contain vector work. In the case of this site if you save it as a .pdf and open it in Illustrator you will have all the vector information available to you.

jHouse's picture
1425 pencils

You said - "a pdf is a vector image".

Not so.

Jack

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Mintsauce's picture
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In the matter concerned the important information in the PDF is vector; for that matter the statement "A PDF is vector" (or the PDF is vector; or the nice bits in the PDF are vector) is a perfectly acceptable statement since the intended meaning was "A PDF can contain vectors and the downloaded typography in the PDF from Wordle is most likely embedded fonts rather than a raster object".

Anything more than that turns into an adolescent discussion of he said, she said.

If you keep your ears open, you'll see better.

Donateko's picture
125 pencils

I see what you are saying now, my browser wouldn't open the print window before. Keep in mind that not all .PDFs are vector images.

--designer wannabe--

3dogmama's picture
1925 pencils

That is wicked. Thanks for sharing.
3 dog.

"Art -- the one achievement of Man which has made the long trip up from all fours seem well advised." - James Thurber

hawks1528's picture
51 pencils

I love it! Thanks soo much for Sharing! I am going to have fun playing with some of my poems on the site.

Tina :)

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jHouse's picture
1425 pencils

Its clever - but REALLY what is the point?

Jack

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TylerR_NKY's picture
256 pencils

I always have trouble making my mind up on font styles, I can see this coming in handy.

'I am a patient boy, I wait, I wait, I wait, I wait'

dvmanh's picture
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very fun, i used it for some girl :))

Anonymous's picture

Looks like someone is already using this to make money. I came across this JQuery t-shirt on Cameron Moll's site today.

Anonymous's picture

I couldn't make any sense out of it!

http://fakesteveballmer.blogspot.com

JimD's picture
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As part of TweetStats, it pulls my Twitter feed and uses all the words from my Tweets. While it may seem useless, it's quite helpful to me. The more times a word appears in my Tweets, the larger the word is in the Wordle artwork. This tells me what I'm Tweeting about most often - and forces me to diversify. Plus it shows me trends. I create a new Wordle graphic every couple of weeks, so I see what the most popular topics of discussion were at any given time because I save the files by date.

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