A few people out there in the cloud are talking about the new answer to Wordle (Sian, your finger is on the pulse as ever!) - and so I will too.
Tagxedo is a cute, easy-to-use little app that makes pretty things happen to words. You have to play around with different colour/layout/orientation combos, and different amounts of words and which font(s) you choose, to get a shape that you're happy with, but in the end, you end up with word (sm)art like this:
It's pretty. But I looked at it aftwerwards and wanted to bling it up a bit. This is when things get dangerous - I'm liable to ruin something in search of a (possibly unreachable) goal. So I "reined" it in a bit. I kept bling to a minimum and it gave it just the right amount of Christmas sparkle, don't you think?
You can even create your own colour theme (if you don't know all the HTML colour codes by heart (!) then go here for some simple assistance).
I have made a couple more but since they are Christmas presents I'm bound to secrecy until after the 25th. Go check out Tagxedo and link back here - I want to see what you create!
Tagxedo is a cute, easy-to-use little app that makes pretty things happen to words. You have to play around with different colour/layout/orientation combos, and different amounts of words and which font(s) you choose, to get a shape that you're happy with, but in the end, you end up with word (sm)art like this:
It's pretty. But I looked at it aftwerwards and wanted to bling it up a bit. This is when things get dangerous - I'm liable to ruin something in search of a (possibly unreachable) goal. So I "reined" it in a bit. I kept bling to a minimum and it gave it just the right amount of Christmas sparkle, don't you think?
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| a sparkly eye for christmas time |
I have made a couple more but since they are Christmas presents I'm bound to secrecy until after the 25th. Go check out Tagxedo and link back here - I want to see what you create!
I'm loving all the Tagxedo makes popping up....am definately going to give it a go. Love yours.
ReplyDeleteThat's perfect! We're finding all sorts of uses for it here - TTO pasted in an essay to see how much emphasis he had placed on which words.
ReplyDeleteInteresting! I like what you have done, very pretty, must have a go!
ReplyDeleteThis is seriously cool Cheryl!! Thanks for the link!
ReplyDeleteHey thanks, this is pretty cool :)
ReplyDeleteThat's brilliant Cheryl. I had a go but didn't have time or patience to master Tagxedo, I will just have to have another go after seeing what you and Sian are creating! Have a wonderful Christmas.
ReplyDeleteWishing you a very Merry Christmas and a creative 2012 !
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