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Published 10 Jan, 2015 07:07am

Website review: Create word clouds

Have you seen word clouds on T-shirts, posters, handbags or even mugs? They look awesome and really appealing. What if you have the choice to make your very own word cloud with all the words that you really want to have in it and that also with a style and shape of your choice?

So kids, here is the solution tagul.com — a website that lets you make word clouds just the way you want it.

Tagul allows users to create word clouds from any text, blog, or by copying and pasting series of words or by the url of a page where the words can be found. It is free to use except some features that are accessible in premium subscription. All you need to do is sign up so that you can save your creation.

Once signed in, hit the ‘Create new cloud’, a new page opens with two panes, the left where you insert the text, choose the size, colour and animation, fonts, shapes, etc.

The good thing is that there are so many shapes to choose from such as a heart, clouds, geometric patterns, birds, animals or you can add your image as well. Moreover, you can make your word cloud more appealing by choosing from the long list of font styles, colours as well as other options like animation.

The right pane is to see your cloud by hitting ‘visualise’ on the top —your word cloud appears in just a few seconds.

Save your creation and/or move on to create a new one. For advance users, the word clouds can be placed on their web pages to show what their site is all about.

To explore more and play around with words log in on Tagul — Gorgeous word clouds.

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