Wordle [excellent for brainstorming]
Donateko (126 points) | Sun, 2009-03-22 07:17I 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--
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It's a very cool site. I've played with it for 20 minutes straight! :)
I can't stop playing with it either.
--designer wannabe--
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.
You could always capture it and then trace t in Ai.
--designer wannabe--
A PDF *is* a vector image.
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--
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
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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very fun, i used it for some girl :))
Looks like someone is already using this to make money. I came across this JQuery t-shirt on Cameron Moll's site today.
I couldn't make any sense out of it!
http://fakesteveballmer.blogspot.com
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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