The purpose of today’s post is to share with you this collection featuring some very good tools to help you create beautiful word clouds. Whether you want to collect students feedback, summarize a long passage, or simply create a beautiful piece of art to integrate in your instruction, these word cloud tools are ideal to start with. They are simple and easy to use and do not even require any technical or graphic design knowledge.
1. Shapecloud
Shapecloud is a free word art generator from Creative Fabrica that allows you to easily generate your own word art. To start creating your word art, select a shape of your choice. You can either choose from Shapecloud’ s pre-made shapes or you can upload your custom shape through an SVG file.
Once your shape is selected, provide words you want to include in your word art, then select your favourite font and colour. When your design is complete you can download it in various formats including PNG, SVG, or as PDF file. The free version of Shapecloud supports up to 5 downloads, to unlock the full features of Shapecloud you will need to get a premium subscription.
Once your shape is selected, provide words you want to include in your word art, then select your favourite font and colour. When your design is complete you can download it in various formats including PNG, SVG, or as PDF file. The free version of Shapecloud supports up to 5 downloads, to unlock the full features of Shapecloud you will need to get a premium subscription.
2. WordItOut
WordItOut is another good word cloud generator that lets you create beautiful wordles for free. No sign up is required either. Some of the many features it offers include:
Customize settings the way you like“Create word clouds from sentences, whole documents or tables.Decide how to filter that text, which words to display or remove, and tweak their importance with ease.Design your word cloud as you like, find that perfect layout, choose your own colours, fonts and sizes (and how to mix them), or let WordItOut find a random look for you!Keep control of your word cloudsShare your word cloud with the world (or keep it secret!)Easily embed them on your own website (as big or small as you want)Download your own copy as an image file.”
3. WordCloud Generator
WordCloud Generator by MonkeyLearn is powered by artificial intelligence allowing you to generate tag clouds with a higher rate of accuracy. WordCloud Generator provides you with three ways to input your text: you can type it, paste it, or upload a text file. The maximum number of characters that can be analyzed using this wordle maker is 200000 characters.
Using the toolbar on top of the generated word cloud, you can easily change the theme of your wordle, edit text colour, customize background colour with the ability to apply a transparent background, change text font and word quantity, and many more.
Another cool feature in MonkeyLearn is the ability to create word clouds with phrases based on the collocations embedded in your text. Your final wordle can be downloaded in .SVG or .PNG formats. To be able to use MonkeyLearn you need to sign up.
4. Word Art
Word Art (formerly Tagul) is a great wordle cloud art generator for teachers and students. You can easily create professional looking word art without the need for any graphic design skills. The process is simple: input your text, click Visualize and then customize your word cloud. You can type your text or import it from a CSV or Excel file.
You can then edit your wordle art the way you want. For instance, click on Shapes to apply a particular shape to your word cloud. Shapes are arranged in multiple categories that include Emoji, Hearts, Money, Nature, Numbers, Christmas, People and many more.
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