A word cloud that is
artwork and not a screenshot
Every word is a filled path in millimeters on a page, packed by its own ink rather than by a box round it. Which means it can go on a poster, a menu or a carton panel and still be sharp. Das ist kostenlos. Wirklich.
- Counted, not guessed.
- The passage is split into words, the commonest words of the language are dropped, and what is left is counted. The list is yours to edit afterwards.
- Packed by the ink.
- A small word slides under the arm of a capital T, because the packer tests the letterforms and not the boxes round them. That is what makes a cloud read as one mass.
- Any shape you have.
- A circle, a heart, a star, an arch — or a letter set in your own font, or a logo you drop on it as SVG.
- Vector at print size.
- The page is in millimeters and every word is an outline. Nothing is a picture of type, so nothing softens when it is scaled.
- Nothing is uploaded.
- The passage, the font and the drawing stay in the browser. There is no account and no server.
- The same cloud twice.
- One seed decides the arrangement. Keep it and the cloud comes back exactly as it was; change it and shuffle.
What it does
A passage, and four decisions about it
What it says, how the words are weighed, what holds them, and what they are set and colored in.
The passage
- Any text at all — a report, a review, a menu, a page of copy
- Common words dropped, or kept if the passage is short
- Case folded together so one word is counted once
- Words shorter than you care about left out
The words, counted
- The list comes back as word and weight, one to a line
- Edit the weights, or type a list of your own from nothing
- A square root by default — raw counts give one huge word and a hundred specks
- Click any word in the cloud to give it its own color or angle
The shape it fills
- Nine plain silhouettes, from a circle to a cloud
- A letter or a short word, set in any font on your machine
- Your own drawing, dropped as SVG
- The page itself, when a rectangle is what is wanted
The type
- Any font installed on your machine, cut as outlines
- The largest and smallest word in millimeters
- Level, upright, mostly level, or every fifteen degrees
- The gap between words, in millimeters of the page
Features
Everything the tool holds
Written out, because a picture that goes on a printed piece is one you should be able to decide about.
Counting
A passage into words.
- A stop-word list you can switch off
- Case folded together, written as first met
- Apostrophes and hyphens kept inside a word
- A shortest length, so initials do not crowd the cloud
Weighing
Counts into sizes.
- Linear, square root or logarithmic
- A largest and a smallest word, in millimeters
- At most as many words as you ask for
- A list you can type by hand instead
The shape
What holds the cloud.
- Circle, ellipse, rounded, diamond, triangle
- Heart, star, cloud and arch
- A letter or short word in your own font
- Your own SVG, fitted to the page
Setting
How the words lie.
- Any installed font, cut to outlines
- Six spreads, from level to every fifteen degrees
- A gap in millimeters, measured on the ink
- A seed, so an arrangement can be kept
Color
What it is printed in.
- Six palettes, each ink editable
- Dealt by weight, by order, or shuffled
- A ground, or a transparent file
- One word's own color, by clicking it
Out
What you take away.
- SVG in millimeters
- PDF at the page size
- Every word a filled path
- Nothing uploaded at any point
How it works
From a passage to a printable cloud
Four steps, and none of them leaves the page.
Paste the text
A report, a review, a menu. Press Count and the words come back weighed.
Pick the shape
A circle, a heart, a letter, or a drawing of your own. Set how much of the page it fills.
Set and color it
A font off your machine, a size range, a spread of angles and a palette.
Take the file
SVG or PDF, at the page size, with every word as an outline.
Who it is for
Where a word cloud earns its place
Not decoration: a picture of what a body of text is about, at a size it can be printed at.
Brand and packaging
The words a product is described with, poured into its own mark.
Reports and decks
A page of findings as one picture, in the report's own type.
Menus and signage
What a kitchen cooks, set in the shape of the plate it is printed on.
Events and gifts
A speech, a review, a year of messages, cut to a heart or a letter.
Studios
Vector out, so it drops into a layout and scales without softening.
Teachers
A text's own vocabulary, visible at a glance, printed for a wall.
FAQ
Good to know
Is anything uploaded?
No. The passage is counted, the type is set and the cloud is packed in your browser, and the file is written there too. There is no account and no server.
Which fonts can I use?
Any font installed on your machine. The browser offers the list and the outlines are cut here, so the file you take away does not need the font installed anywhere else.
Why is my biggest word so much bigger than the rest?
Because counts are like that — in any real passage the commonest word is many times the next. The size curve is what fixes it: a square root is the default and a logarithm flattens it further.
Some words went missing.
A word that will not fit inside the shape is left out rather than pushed outside it. Make the shape fill more of the page, lower the largest size, reduce the gap, or ask for fewer words.
Can I use my own logo as the shape?
Yes — drop it as SVG. Only its outlines are read, so a drawing of filled paths works best; a drawing made of placed pictures has no outlines to read.
Is it really vector?
Yes. Every word in the SVG and the PDF is a filled path in millimeters. There are no text elements in the file, which is what makes it safe to send to a printer.
A passage is worth a picture
Paste the text, pick a shape, and take the cloud as vector at the size it will be printed.