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Offline Ellemeno

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« on: November 26, 2009, 12:29:15 am »




Would love to see what you come up with too.


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Re: Wordle
« Reply #1 on: November 26, 2009, 04:11:57 am »



Would love to see what you come up with too.




Love it!

How did you make some words bigger and others smaller? I couldn't find a function to emphasize single words.

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Re: Wordle
« Reply #2 on: November 26, 2009, 10:54:53 am »
That is cool, but I have only just learned how to do the hugs. !!!

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Re: Wordle
« Reply #3 on: November 26, 2009, 12:25:05 pm »
I'll have to try this...it's beautiful!!
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Re: Wordle
« Reply #4 on: November 26, 2009, 01:19:52 pm »

Love it!

How did you make some words bigger and others smaller? I couldn't find a function to emphasize single words.


Wordle sizes the words by frequency used in the text you submit.  I submitted the whole text of the short story Brokeback Mountain.  So you can see the two most used words in the story, and then the next most, etc.  

The one I made above is with the following settings:
Font: Beryllium
Mostly horizontal
Alphabetical
Rounded edges
The 200 most frequent words

I kept reclicking "Re-layout with current settings" til I got one I liked particularly.

It's fun.

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Re: Wordle
« Reply #5 on: November 26, 2009, 01:53:21 pm »

Love it!

How did you make some words bigger and others smaller? I couldn't find a function to emphasize single words.


I just read the website some more.  If you click on 'Advanced' near the top, it discusses how to to do that selectively.


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Re: Wordle
« Reply #6 on: November 26, 2009, 01:56:40 pm »
Does it just last a little while? It seems to be gone now!  :(
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Re: Wordle
« Reply #7 on: November 26, 2009, 02:06:09 pm »
Very cool, Elle.

Thanks for the link.

Brokeback Mountain Prologue
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Re: Wordle
« Reply #8 on: November 27, 2009, 03:27:16 pm »
Does it just last a little while? It seems to be gone now!  :(


Hi Lee, not sure what you mean.  That is the site where I made the design.  The only way I found to keep the design is to do a capture, then turn it into a jpg.  I'd love if someone could figure out a simple process.

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Re: Wordle
« Reply #9 on: November 27, 2009, 03:28:55 pm »
Very cool, Elle.

Thanks for the link.

Brokeback Mountain Prologue



Cool, Fran.  In reading a little more of the advanced stuff on the site, I saw that if you put a tilda between two words you want to stick together, like "Del~Mar", it will come out looking like "Del Mar," not "Del" one place, and "Mar" another.