Word Clouds & Flipped Text

A fun new toy. Boy, am I in trouble. So I thought I'd share it: go over to Wordle and make your own word cloud. You can change the fonts, the color, the word orientation, print it to a PDF, then manipulate it and re-save it as a graphic file to print on T shirts or whatever. You can also link it to your blog, as I've done here. The really lovely thing is that it's completely copyright free, which means you make it, you own exclusively, unless you also save it to Wordle's gallery, in which case everyone else can use it too.

This would be a kind of a cool tool for generating covers or pages. It takes all the hassle out of doing it in a graphic arts or page design program and  you have a fair amount of control over how it comes out. The font selection is not too shabby and you can always change the colors later, once you've got it into a jpeg or tiff format. All you have to do is come up with the content.

[This is all Painting Speech's fault. Gee, thanks!]

Then there's this site, where you can flip your text around and paste it in wherever, ˙ooʇ uı ǝɯıʇ ǝlʇʇıl ɐ noʎ sǝʌɐs ɥɔıɥʍ though it does tend to make the punctuation a little confusing. And it doesn't have any font or color options.

[Blame this one on TJ Book Arts.  Cross-posted at Dowsing]