Or: How to play with words!
It might be a common knowledge for a lot of people, but somehow I missed the 'word clouds'. Of course, I saw them occasionally, but didn't know how to create them or even the terminology, and then of course, how to find right tools. And, as it often is, I accidentally found the right site. As I love letters and fonts, fell in love with them. It is actually very easy to create clouds and choose different shapes, font types, colors.
The best known is probably Wordle : it is a tool 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 Tagxedo Creator enables you to create various shapes and there are number of others.
Read these reviews to find something more about other tools. And try some of them, it is realy fun to play.
On the examples above I tried the same text for all of them, see how different each of them is.
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