The LaCroix tool requires slightly more brainpower users have to design a color scheme and come up with a flavor name-but it's still dead simple to use. 'I was floored by the internet's response to such a simple idea,' McMillan says. His Stranger Things web applet works the same way. His WordArt generator is very straightforward: Type in some text, get a piece of WordArt back. Instant gratification is a key ingredient in McMillan's meme-making formula. “I remember turning in book reports for elementary school and spending more time customizing the WordArt on the cover than on the actual content of the report itself,” McMillan says. The decorative text tool let users instantly transform any bit of copy into something sensational: a 3-D chrome header for a paper, or your name cast in a block of rainbow-gradient text. You can add a fill or effect to a shape or text box as well as the text in the WordArt. If you lived through the nineties, you may recall that WordArt used to come packaged with Microsoft Office. On the Insert tab, in the Text group, click WordArt, and then click the WordArt style that you want.

Mike McMillan, the designer who brought you the Stranger Things type generator and, more recently, the LaCroix flavor generator, just dropped his latest web toy: 'Make WordArt' is a Windows 95-style WordArt generator featuring none other than Clippy, Microsoft's notoriously unhelpful paperclip. From Skills for Success with Microsoft Office 2007 by Kris Townsend. The internet is about to be awash in ‘90s-era graphics. WordArt is a gallery of text styles with which you can create decorative effects.

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