Word Cloud Generator

A word cloud shows the most frequent words of a text in sizes that match their frequency, so the main themes jump out at a glance. It is a quick way to open a presentation on survey results, decorate a classroom wall with the words of a story, or make a poster from a speech. This generator builds the cloud in your browser, with shapes, colours and fonts, and downloads it as an image or a vector file.

From text to words

The text is split into words and counted. Common English words such as “the”, “and” and “of” are left out by default, because they would otherwise dominate every cloud. Choose how many words to show, from 10 to 200; the most frequent come first. Switch on two-word phrases to show combinations such as “cold brew” or “customer service”, which often say more than single words.

How sizes and positions are chosen

Each word’s font size follows the square root of its frequency, so the most common word is clearly largest without dwarfing everything else. Words are placed from the largest down, starting at the centre and moving outward along a spiral until each finds a free space. If a word does not fit, it is tried once at a smaller size; if it still does not fit, it is left out, and the panel title shows how many words were placed. “New arrangement” reshuffles positions and angles. Finally, the finished cloud is scaled up evenly to fill the image, so a small set of words still makes a full picture.

Shapes

Besides a full rectangle, the cloud can fill a circle, heart, star or diamond. For a custom shape, upload an image with a dark silhouette on a white or transparent background — a logo, a country outline, an animal — and words fill the dark area. Simple, bold silhouettes work best; fine details are lost at the scale of words.

Colours, fonts and angles

Choose one of six palettes, from ocean blues to pastel tones, and a font: clean sans-serif, classic serif, monospace, handwritten or bold condensed. Words can all be horizontal, partly vertical, tilted or at many angles. Horizontal layouts are easiest to read; mixed angles look livelier but take longer to scan.

Sizes and downloads

Pick a size for your purpose: square for social media, 16:9 for slides, portrait for stories and posters, or 2400 × 1600 for print. PNG gives a ready image; with a transparent background it drops onto any slide. SVG gives a vector file that stays sharp at any size and can be edited in design software; it names the font rather than embedding it, so it looks identical where that font is installed.

When a cloud is not enough

A word cloud shows prominence, not exact numbers, and it ignores context: “not good” contributes “good”. For analysis, pair it with a frequency table from the Word Frequency Counter.

A worked example

The sample paragraph about coffee produces a cloud dominated by “coffee”, with smaller words such as “beans”, “cold”, “water” and “people”, while words such as “the” and “are” are left out. With two-word phrases on, “coffee beans” becomes one of the largest entries.

Related tools

See exact counts with the Word Frequency Counter, clean punctuation first with Remove Punctuation, resize the image with the Image Resizer, or combine it with photos in the Collage Maker.