Software for making beautiful WORD CLOUDS - Good Typograhical Collages

First of all I MUST thanks a million to Morgantao for having helped me so much to find this interesting technique that I have been searching for 6 years and could not find, and he pointed me to the right direction telling me that this was called WORD CLOUD

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Morgantao wrote in this thread here You can google search "Word cloud", that will help you find some online tools that can take words and arrange them randomly withouht overlap

What is a WORD CLOUD ? According to Wikipedia

A tag cloud (word cloud, or weighted list in visual design) is a visual representation for text data

And another better one could be

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An attractive arrangement of randomly positioned words, where the most important words are bigger than the others.

I suposse that this definitions does not gives you a clue so the best it to put an example I have done myself



You can customize MANY things, as the text, the frequency, the orientation, the colors, the shapes, the font style, and many others things to build your own WORD CLOUD

There are many interesting software available already to make this kind of artistic and beautiful Typographical Collages.

Some of them are online application and others that are installed as software.

I am making a investigation looking for the best and most interesting software that is available already for making this, and I will put here a list of what I can find.

FILTER FORGE AND WORD CLOUDS


Is NOT possible to make WORD CLOUDS inside Filter Forge because does not have the elements and components needed to make it possible, does not support text and fonts, does not have control of spacing and tightness which is essential in this.

BUT this does not mean that you CAN´T use an already built WORD CLOUD image inside Filter Forge and apply to it any of the thousands filter already available, and customize it as you would like

LIST OF SOFTWARE I HAVE FOUND FOR MAKING WORD CLOUDS

TAGXEDO

Fr om all the ones online utils apps I have found until now the best and with most features and greatest customization and options is

http://www.tagxedo.com/app.html

Lots of control to play with AND also lets you use ONLY letters or Dingbats and NOT just words as it happens with others.

ALSO you can choose from many shapes, multiple fonts, colors, etc.

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Morgantao wrote: The major downside of using Taxedo is you can't save as vectors (SVG). In some of the other word clouds you can actually save SVG files that are scalable vectors, so you don't lose quality when zooming or resizing, and you can make selections very easily (So you don't have black holes in the O's, R's, D's, etc...). One thing I know for sure, Taxedo is by far the most customizable word cloud generator, and if they will offer an offline version, I'll probably buy it, no questions asked

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WORDAIZER

http://www.mosaizer.com/Wordaizer/

This one I have just found it and have not tried it yet, BUT from the examples shown in the website it looks and seems that is as powerful and featured rich as Tagxedo

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WORDLE

http://www.wordle.net/

This is more simple than the above, BUT have some things that are also good and perhaps for simple Word clouds could be easier.

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Wordle is a toy for generating “word clouds” from text that you provide. The clouds give greater prominence to words that appear more frequently in the source text. You can tweak your clouds with different fonts, layouts, and color schemes. The images you create with Wordle are yours to use however you like. You can print them out, or save them

Here I found a tutorial for using this WORDLE if you need and want

Become a Wordle Power User ---> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fbAN-eV44Ng

And also this other one --> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xhL5D9nz5aI

And if you look at the right side, there are many other suggested videos for this app.

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WORD IT OUT

http://worditout.com/

This is in some way different to the above ones and have some things and also have the idea to make this word clouds as art to be printed on many daily things you can find.

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Transform your text into word clouds! What's a word cloud? An attractive arrangement of randomly positioned words, wh ere the most important words are bigger than the others.

With Tagxedo you can also make Letter Clouds instead of only Word Clouds as shown here below

For this you have to change the text to lots of single letters and configure the settings to allow letters instead of only words