WordArt
Microsoft’s ready-made text styles featuring curves, bevels, shadows and gradient fills, bundled with Office software in the 1990s. Used for flyers, school projects and early web pages, it now signals playful retro-digital kitsch.
Spot it
- 01Rainbow gradient letters
- 02Wavy arched baselines
- 03Heavy drop shadows
Why it happens
Text outlines are converted into shapes that can be warped along preset paths, then filled with gradients and textures and given extruded shadows.
Recreate it in Pixio
Image edit prompt“Add WordArt-style lettering to this image: bold gradient-filled text reading a short word such as COOL, in rainbow or chrome tones, arched along a wavy curve with thick outlines, heavy offset drop shadows and a bevel, placed over a lower area, in a 1990s office-software style. Keep the original subject and composition.”
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