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.)

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

This app even can do proper hard shadows in vector format no less. Something Adobe Illustrator has failed to do (without bending over backwards) for thirtynine years!This will actually be useful to me!

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!

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.

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)

Any plans for a WordArt MCP or CLI? I'd use it liberally for every AI-generated slide deck I generate. (only half-joking)

Oh this takes me back, what a cool project. Can someone reinvent the internet from that era next please?

I remember having Word 5 installed on my pc, while the other classmates had Word 97. I was so jealous for their wordart!

This is great. I used to mess around with WordArt a lot when I was younger and this brought that back. Nice that you can get that look without turning the text into an image.

Oh my god, this is delightful.

It even does lets you animate them!

Reminds me of RuneScape you could add colors and wiggles to your text as you spoke. (You could do something similar in MSN, too, change the font and color!)

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.

This brings back memories! My first personal website used that orange gradient with the 3D text for the logo (my name).

I think when people get tired of AI generated invitations they'll go back to this.

Whenever someone complains about AI-generated images being everywhere, I try to remind people about WordArt and cliparts (especially the lightbulbs and the ones called "screen beans", never knew that name, thanks Claude for finding that particular tidbit) being absolutely everywhere back then. I consider our timeline vastly superior, but I understand how people may think differently and how anything from thirty years ago can invoke nostalgia, for better or for worse.

This could be genuinely useful for web design because it's easy to setup layout reflow using all the sliders. I hope you'll open source it.

This is so nostalgic. The shadow picker used to be half the fun. I spent more time on that than anything.

Also, any plans to add more font support to this?

Current UI text looks blurry in Chrome and Firefox, probably because it's using a font that's optimized for 11px but font-size is scaled to 13.75px.

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

Ew! Ack.. Why.....

(Joking - just had a visceral flashback to 1990s highschool computer class, making some posters in CorelDraw.. 3?)

This just bought back memories, I used to play with it for hours when I was a kid.

I miss 90s CorelDRAW, it reminds me of that. Thanks for the nostalgia fill.

What's the liability risk of using these in logos and trademarks?

Man, this takes me back! The internet felt like a different place back then.

Absolute legend, I’m going to slap these all over my site

wow, thanks! i was JUST thinking about booting up some old VM so that i could play with word art again. yay =^.^=

Thanks for bringing back the school days. Wordart and powerpoint animations were the only things we used to spend time on during computer sessions. BTW is it running on wasm or pure js.

Love this. A great stretch goal would be the Win95 clip-art stick figures. Those are iconic.

Really enjoyed playing around with this. The menus are just so authentic!

Should add an option to export to CSS/SVG

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I used to use Xara 3D

Thanks! Got my old-skulls cramped.

The scrollbars are not authentic.

Absolutely love this, like its smooth!

I do indeed feel the nostalgia

Maaan, that's my childhood memories! Thank you!

This is really cool! Thanks for sharing.

haha thats a blast from the past !

it brings me to the old times!

C:>

hot personal take: this is not esthetic

Nobody asked for this!

Now this is well done!

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