Tag Cloud Generator – my blog as a typographic tag cloud

In my search for a nice holiday greeting i ran into the tag cloud generator. It is a great tool which can give a good perspective – not only on a blog’s content, but also on any kind of text document or a specific url. This way you can learn on a word density in a paragraph/page/url, and besides – it’s a great visualization and adds a typographic value to the conventional term called tag cloud. Take a look on 2 different tag cloud generators that I found, and check out the beautiful algorithm which builds the cloud:

http://www.wordle.net/ – This “toy”, as they call it, generates a cloud from any kind of content you will choose: Paste in a text box a bunch of text, enter your website’s desired page url or RSS feed, or just apply your del.icio.us user name and the application will do the work. The great thing is that the generator’s algorithm uses horizontal, vertical or even diagonal directions to create a nice harmonic tag cloud, and uses any space to fill-in tags – even between letters or inside of a letter’s space! check out this preview:

The generator’s features are cool: You can define the font, color palate, positioning and style. You also have this cool button called “Randomize” which generates in a second a different style to the same content. For an example – below you can find few “Randomized” outputs for the same text:

Enjoy!!!