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Thanks! The words fall under two categories. For the first I searched for lists of the most common words, and for the second I searched for lists of beautiful words. In total there are about 500 beautiful words and 500 common words. The beautiful words appear less frequently than the common words, to make them more special :)

Yeah the hidden labels were to avoid visual clutter but we were a bit worried it might cause some confusion.

Oooh that's a wonderful idea for an animation!

I'm so glad you enjoyed it! Thank you for all your feedback!!! :D

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wakeman3 years ago(+1)

Interesting, "common" + "beautiful" is a thoughtful combination, and definitely works well for this. Thanks for explaining!

Label-wise, maybe special text treatment (e.g. size, font, opacity, or even using a photo of handwritten words) or icons (e.g. disk for save/export, boat or walking figure or bird with wings spread for wander) could help? Just a thought.

Come to think, varying the text treatment (bold, size, italics, color, font) for the words could be interesting too -- more like using actual clippings. Though honestly I kinda like it as-is; it feels more about the words themselves this way.

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Games For Crows3 years ago

Hmm hadn't thought of using icons. You're full of good ideas! :)

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