Word Clouds and Word Art

About a year ago, I posted some information about two interesting sites - Wordle and Tagxedo.  You can find that post HERE.   I find these images fascinating and text based art is very trendy so I thought it would be nice to link the post for you to read and share a few examples of images I made on the Tagxedo site. 

You can save the art you create on the Tagxedo site to use for your projects.  These first few heart shaped images are based on my blog. 

You simply enter the URL of a site and the site calculates the frequency of word use and sizes the words in the image to reflect how often they are used (the larger words are the ones that appear more often).  You can edit the list to remove words or abbreviations that you don't want to appear in the image.

There are many color themes and fonts and you can reset the image over and over again.

There are quite a few built in shapes that you can use - isn't this shoe fun!  You can also upload a shape of your own.

It is fascinating to see all of the variations - I could spend hours on the site.

This star shape would be fun filled with the words of a vacation journal.

The site keeps a history going back 50 or so versions of your designs so you can try lots of things and then choose your favorite.

This apple was made with the words from Lincoln's Gettysburg Address.

You can find the Tagxedo site HERE.  I hope you have some fun trying things out!

I am driving south today and I won't be online much for the next few days.  I have a backlog of email to get through so please be patient if you have sent me a message and haven't had a reply yet.  Things have been a little crazy these past few weeks.  The weather is supposed to get very hot over the next few days - take care and be sure to stay well hydrated!

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Another Great Site for Word Clouds

I recently posted a reminder about the Wordle site for making word clouds that you can use for various cards and projects.  I started looking around for other sites and I found one that you should definitely visit and use to try making some word art. 

This site is called "Tagxedo" and it has lots of interesting options.  For the image at the top of this post I used the description of the Cricut Imagine machine from the Cricut.com website as the text.  (Just click on any image to make it larger).

You can change the font and the orientation of the words and make another cloud.  Just keep spinning the various options until you find one you really like.

There are many color themes to choose from and you can even do your own thing and choose all custom colors for your cloud.

Another nice feature is the ability to fit the words to a shape.  Here is a simple heart (in another interesting font and color palette).

The shapes give an interesting twist and there are lots of stock shapes to try.  This elephant is filled with words relating to Mother's Day that were used for the site example.

You can even upload your own shapes to be totally creative.  I tried it with a Cricut shape from the Lovely Floral cartridge using my blog url as the text source.  The possibilities are truly endless.

The Tagxedo site is HERE.  There are also three blogs connected to the site.  I am fascinated by the portraits that appear in the gallery on the main site and in the Celebrity Tagxedo blog.  Here are the links to the blogs.

All Things Tagxedo

Daily Tagxedo

Celebrity Tagxedo

I started out intending to make a word cloud for Father's Day.  I still haven't done that - I was having too much fun just trying some of the many options.

I hope you are having a great weekend - it rained here and since it was Graduation Day at the high school the ceremony had to be held inside.  It also turned very cold - from nearly 100 degrees a few days ago to the mid 50s today - will the weather ever be "normal" this year?

link to Discussion Day #5 - Life is too Short...

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