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    Updated: Jun 26, 2022 by Kris Jarrett

    8 Simple Steps to Using Tagxedo to Create Personalized Word Cloud Art

    Have you ever heard of a word cloud? Not me. At least not until my youngest daughter told me that she worked on word clouds at school and found this website called Tagxedo where you can create your own personalized word cloud. She showed me the ropes and we’ve created word cloud after word cloud, including this one where we took some of the things my daughters loves most, made them into a word cloud heart, and framed it for her room:

    Using Tagxedo to create your own word cloud art! This post walks you through with simple steps!

    There are endless options for what you can create – like this little footprint for a baby boy’s room:

    SO fun to create word cloud art in different shapes using Tagxedo with the steps shown in this post!

    this fun high heel (made from the words of my “Best of Driven by Decor” blog post):

    Creating your own word cloud art is super simple with this free online site!

    Or how about a “final rose” word cloud in honor of The Bachelor (um, not that I watch that kind of mindless trash TV or anything….):

    Creating word cloud art online is super simple with this Tagxedo tutorial!


    Ready to create you own personalized word cloud art (for free!)? With my daughter’s help, I’ve created an easy tutorial to show you how:

    Create your own word cloud art with Tagxedo

    1. Start by going to Tagxedo’s website {here} – you must be on a desktop or laptop and be using a browser other than Google Chrome. Once on the Tagxedo website, click the “Create” button:

    A great tutorial for using Tagxedo to create online word cloud art!

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    If you don’t have Silverlight installed on your computer, you may be prompted by a pop-up window to download and install it, as Tagxedo requires it to run. After installation you might need to reboot your computer.

    2. Next, choose a shape by clicking on the arrow to the right of “Shape” and selecting the one you want:

    A step by step tutorial of using Tagxedo to create word cloud art!

    3. Next, click the arrow to the right of “Theme” and choose a color combination – it changes the colors of both the text and the background. You can also click on the circular arrow if you prefer to scroll through your color options one at a time.


    4. Next, click on “Load” – this is where you’ll enter the words that you want in your word cloud. If you want to use all of the words on a particular webpage for your word cloud, type the URL of the page to the right of “Webpage”. Otherwise, you can enter the words that you want to use in the box to the right of “Enter Text”. Put a space between each of the words. If you have any two-word text items, use a tilde symbol between the words (for example, if you want to use “Boston terrier” in your word cloud, type “Boston~terrier”). When you are done, press “Submit”.

    5. Click the arrow to the right of “Font” to change your font to the one you want to use:


    6. If you love how it looks, you’re done! But if you want to see other layout options where the words are in different positions, click the circular arrow to the right of “Layout” as many times as needed until it’s what you’re looking for. You can also click the circular arrow to the right of “Color” if you want to switch around which words are which colors.


    7. Another option is to change the orientation of the words by clicking the arrow to the right of “Orientation” and selecting the best option for you. I prefer the default orientation but the horizontal orientation has a nice look too:

    At any time while making your word cloud, if you make a mistake or want to go back to a previous version, click “History” and select the thumbnail image that you want to revert to.

    8. Congratulations, you’ve finished your word cloud! Now click on “Save” and save your image as a JPG or PNG file. Or you can click the Print tab to print it.  Your word cloud will print out in about an 8 x 10 size. If you want a different size, save your image, paste it in a document where you can resize it, and print.

    Create your own word cloud art!

    Thanks go out to my youngest daughter for sharing this how-to with me so that I could then share it with you. Hope you have as much fun with it as we have!

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