Wordle

What is Wordle?

Wordle

Wordle is a toy for generating “word clouds” from words that you input. A word typed in more than other words will feature more prominently in the word cloud. You can change the font, colours and the layout of the word cloud if needed. Once these have been created you can easily print them out.


In my teaching I would not be using this application as I feel it is not at the correct level to use with Graphic Design Degree students. 

However for designing I may suggest another program if the students wanted to find an easy application to design and create 'word clouds'. The application suggested would be Tagxedo. I came across this whilst looking for Wordle. This application has more functionality and design features and its something they could use if a client requested a word cloud. They would of course have to tweak it in Photoshop.

Tagxedo 

Disadvantages of Wordle

• both applications are fairly old and do not work with Chrome(Java) and there may be issues with Internet Explorer (Silverlight)
• too basic for Degree students

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