Elegant word or tag-cloud creator

 

Jonathan Feinberg's Wordle (via Kristian Still) is an elegant and flexible tool to create clouds from text. Wordle gives you a lot of control over fonts, font colours, and font positions. The one above uses the Executive Summary of the DIUS Higher Education at Work consultation document. The one below is from Lucy Kellaway's piece on the brainlessly upbeat language of business.