AI BriefingBig Words, a URL-based slide tool
·2026.05.08 03:47
Key point
Simon Willison built Big Words, a tool that creates simple slides from a URL.
Details
Simon Willison built Big Words to quickly create slides for his own macOS presentation tool. The page reads the query string in the URL and turns it into a single-page text slide.
- As in the example, appending
text=simonwillison.net&gradient=1&size=9.5immediately changes the slide. - Double-clicking or double-tapping opens a settings form where you can adjust text color, background, gradient, angle, font, weight, size, italics, uppercase, and shadow.
- Changed values can be saved back into the URL with
Save URLfor reuse.
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