Welcome to Tagxedo, word cloud with styles
October 13, 2016. Bob Dylan, Winner of Nobel Prize in Literature. (Words from the lyrics of 'Like a Rolling Stone') 7474. This short tutorial takes you through the basics of creating a word cloud with Tagxedo. Excerpt '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.
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)
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