Fun with Typography
by Editor ~ July 8th, 2008. Filed under: Other Printables.
I generated this image from a wonderfully diverting website, wordle.net.
The clever tool on this site takes the words generated from any RSS feed and creates a word cloud. Here you see words generated from the RSS feed of this site. If you don’t have a feed from a blog or other such site to use, you can “paste a bunch of text”–song lyrics, Shakespearean sonnets, a favorite poem by Poe, what-have-you, and then generate a colorful burst of wordiness.
Be sure to read the FAQ on Wordle, which explains how to save your image. I took a screenshot, but if I wanted to create a high quality print of my wordy little work of art, I’d need to create a PDF, as explained in Wordle’s FAQ.
So while not quite a collage sheet, I think that the text generated could certainly serve as an element or background in a collage or mixed-media piece.
