Show HN: TitleArt – Make text like it's 1997
- ID
- 39477
- Status
- summarized
- Published
- 26 Oct 2026, 11:23 AM
- Fetched
- 26 Oct 2026, 6:29 PM
- Provider
- Hacker News
- Category
- dev-community
- Original URL
- https://titleart.dvy.io/
- Source URL
- https://hnrss.org/best
Summary
- Score
- 3.5
- Created
- 26 Oct 2026, 6:30 PM
- Tags
- Audience
- vibe_codersdevelopers
What happened
TitleArt is a browser-based WordArt clone that recreates the 1997-era Microsoft Word 'WordArt' experience — Impact font at 140px, layer-based text with shadow, 3-D and motion controls, a Gallery of preset styles, and clip art. It exports to PNG, SVG, GIF or video, defaults to a 1200×630 canvas, and supports keyboard-driven editing (arrow keys move, comma/full-stop rotate, minus/plus resize, '?' lists all shortcuts). It hit 232 points and 36 comments on Hacker News; the page also promotes a weekly newsletter from its maker, Davey Barker.
Why it matters
Nothing here changes your stack — it's a single-purpose novelty page. The one transferable detail is the export list: PNG, SVG, GIF and video from a browser tool, with a 1200×630 default that matches Open Graph/social card dimensions. If you're building a small generator tool for a SaaS launch or a shareable side project, that export matrix plus keyboard-only controls is a concrete pattern worth copying; the 232 points also suggest retro-styled output travels further on HN than another polished utility.
Discussion angle
Is the draw the nostalgia or the GIF/video export? Ask the room whether they'd actually ship a keyboard-shortcut-only UI today, and what the 1200×630 default tells you about who this tool was built to be shared through.