are you bored, philipp?? :-)

LOL!

Seriously Philipp this is a great tool. Could you make it accept the words from a REQUEST though so that:

http://blogoscoped.com/letters/?q=whateverTextYouLike

would work. That would be nice.

Also slight glitch with when one letter is submitted the border doesn't complete.

Yikes! You did 47 s's!

http://blogoscoped.com/letters/image/s48.jpg

Sam, I fixed the border bug, thanks.

I was thinking about doing this as GET request but then I figured it's not so good because the specific letters are random, so you can't really point to individual images with that link. Well, I'll keep thinking about it.

This is great!!!...and since it works with words why call it letters?

Philipp: Yeah I suppose you are right on that. A unique id for the random letters generated would need to be made... it is not worth it! Another bug (or near bug) when you enter only numbers it should say "This is for LETTERS" or something. At the moment when letters are entered within a text string it cuts them out which is fine. But if a number leads or trails then you get the border bug

Bernardo: I think letters is a good name for it. It is all about the different styles of letter, not word.

You can now use numbers as well – I had the photos but there was a small bug. Priceless feedback Sam :)

Well Sam, a letter is a word ... anyways, its a great tool. Web Graphic Designers and kidnappers (just kidding...) will love it.

This is like the one I used before...It was using the Flickr photos.

This is such a great tool! I can use it for collage projects.. seriously ;)

http://digg.com/technology/Just_try_this_SEARCH_ENGINE_:LOL

nice job – remined me of this:
http://metaatem.net/words/Google%20Blogoscoped

Funny tool.I've been playing with it for quite a while.

nice one

You can use words and create poem, I think someone two years ago, created poems visually using google images api.

So you type your message or poem and you got it as images.
cool , well done Phil.

Related tools here are, with mixed results due to automation...:

The Google Images Storyteller
http://blogoscoped.com/story/

Web of Words (using Yahoo Images API)
http://blogoscoped.com/archive/2005-03-11.html

Philipp,

You are very creative...:) I must say nice

hey this is kewl.. but what I need is a button which sez :download
and in the backend the s/w stiches together the various alphabets and crates a nice little .jpg or .giff or whatever format you default to.

Then we can use to to create Happy BDAY <ALPAHA> and what not..

I thought of having a unique URL , but then that would not make sense --as each renderation of similar letters would create a new image correct or a new miX!!

Also have a button which people can submitt "letters" in some std format. This will increase randamization

I like this tool . ..its sweet..!!

Phillip,

Mein freund, du bist very prolific.
You're amazing! Always up to something.

It would be cool if the result could be copied
as a big image instead of each individual letter.

thank you

ralph --
Port-au-Prince, Haiti

You guys are right, it'd be nicer & mory copyable as one image...

Philipp: This is only a suggestion I am not sure how it would look but how about keeping any spaces put in by the user.

Hay Philipp, Great tool. I like that.
I hink you could have option to upload more images by users.
Anyway really nice work...

i love it! hours of fun to be had with it. i like the idea of "submitting" letters but it'd be open to abuse...

you say you took the photographs, so what's the copyright situation? Creative Commons...? in fact, who would own the copyright anyway? if you photograph a section of someone else's sign/logo and reuse it, doesn't it still belong to them?

mark.

no Mark – it will be "fair use" for non commnerical purpose.

   Geee.. thats actaully a question I should leave for Seth F :)-

Mark, I think (sadly) you need a copyright lawyer these days to answer all that... but I think morally it's OK to take those pics and share the results of the remix for others to use.

Some of the feedback influenced this one – you can now directly copy the image (and the URL):
http://blogoscoped.com/building/

It's certainly morally ok, and i don't think you're likely to see any C&D letters about it. It's interesting to think though that most of our visual environment is "owned" by people – be it through copyright or registered trademark.

either way, i really like "letters" – it's artistic and creative. i'm not so fond of the building text though, largely because it's not as pretty... well done for technical side of "building" though.

Wouldn't it make sense to add symbols like "." and "-" for you might use URLs/domains with the tool?

Pip, I'm working on something new... to be announced :)