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By Helen South, About.com Guide to Drawing / Sketching since 2002

Just for Fun: Wordle

Friday January 2, 2009

Here's a fun way to waste an hour. I just love text - my own artwork is full of words. As an art student I would enlarge poetry on a photocopier, cut out the words and re-arrange them. Wordle is a java applet created by Jonathan Feinberg. You can paste in some text, enter a blog URL (or any site with an RSS feed), or put in your del.icio.us username. Wordle then creates a random pattern from the text. You can experiment with font, size, color and layout. Have fun!... Go to Wordle

(Parental advisory: Wordle includes user-generated text artworks which may contain inappropriate language and content. Supervision of children is recommended.)

Image: Text by H South, image generated by 'Wordle' (c) J Feinberg

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January 3, 2009 at 7:07 am
(1) Marion BE says:

What fun! I ended up clicking again and again on random to see what else would come up. My Wordle

February 25, 2009 at 7:18 pm
(2) shade1012 says:

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