Wordless Picture Books

A word cloud (also known as a tag cloud) is a visual representation of words. Cloud creators are used to highlight popular words and phrases based on frequency and relevance. They provide you with quick and simple visual insights that can lead to more in-depth analyses. About Wordle: Wordle is a simple yet sophisticated program for creating word clouds from text or a URL and sharing them with the world. How To Use Wordle: Click the link above to visit Wordle’s site and find the bold “Create your own” text and click the “Create” hyperlink.

There are a few places on the web that have a wordle maker where you can create your very own word cloud. Here I will attempt to share some cool tips and tricks that I come up with in creating my own wordle word clouds. The problems I run into have nothing to do with the text to use or coming up with text ideas, but rather how to make them unique in appearance. So this page will be dedicated to ideas on how to make wordles and how to make them stand out. We’ll start just by listing some current sites that have their own wordle creator:

Welcome to Tagxedo, word cloud with styles

WordArt.com is an online word cloud art creator that enables you to create.
Create beautiful word cloud images from your text. Create word clouds from your text. A great way of visualizing a piece of text or a news feed. The cloud give greater prominence to words that appear more frequently in the source text. You can tweak your clouds with different sizes, fonts, layouts, and color schemes.

Tagxedo turns words -- famous speeches, news articles, slogans and themes, even your love letters -- into a visually stunning word cloud, words individually sized appropriately to highlight the frequencies of occurrence within the body of text.

Start Now, or make a Tagxedo out of your blogs, tweets, or tags...
(1) URL	(2) Twitter ID	(3) Del.icio.us ID
(4) News	(5) Search	(6) RSS (Lookup)
Shape: ClassicAppleDoveHeartStar
Orientation: AnyHVH/V
Font: Theme:

The following are a few examples to show the versatility of Tagxedo, especially how tightly the words hug the shapes. Feel free to click the pictures and play with them in Tagxedo. If you like these word clouds, you must also check out the Tagxedo Facebook page which has many more candies for your eyes, and read about the 101 Ways to Use Tagxedo. Now...

Making word cloud is fun, and is much more fun with Tagxedo! With Tagxedo, you can:

make word clouds in real-time
customize font, theme, color, orientation, and shape
fine-tune with lots of options
save as images for printing and sharing
view your word clouds as thumbnails, and pick the one you want for further tweaking or saving
choose from many standard fonts
use custom fonts (e.g. downloaded from Font Squirrel, DaFont, FontSpace, or your own hand-drawn fonts)
constrain the word cloud to selected shapes (heart, star, animals, etc)
use images as custom shapes (e.g. a portrait, an animal silhouette)

Wordless Picture Books

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