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 __**AmazType **__  @http://amaztype.tha.jp/  This is pretty amazing! Type in a word and a visual of the word will appear made from book covers. Click on the book cover to see it more closely . 

 **__Spell with Flickr __**  @http://metaatem.net/words/  type in a word, then click on Spell. Click on any letter in the first example to change the letter to a different style. Use Command/Shift/4 to take a screen shot of the word. 

Word Clouds **__Tagul__**  @http://tagul.com/

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"><span class="wiki_link_ext" style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 144%;"> media type="youtube" key="Co-szCnOxRQ" height="385" width="480" <span style="color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 112%; text-align: left;">Word It Out <span style="color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 132%; text-align: left;">@http://worditout.com/ <span style="color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 144%; text-align: left;"><span class="wiki_link_ext">Very much like wordle, type in words, copy/paste text, enter a URL, and make a word cloud. <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 144%;"> __**<span class="wiki_link_ext">Wordle **__ <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 144%;"> @http://wordle.net/ <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 144%;"> Generates “word clouds” from text that you provide. The clouds give greater prominence to words that appear more frequently in the source text.Fun for kids: Guess the Wordle

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 150%;"> **Tagxedo** <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 150%;"> @http://www.tagxedo.com/app.html <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 150%;"> turns words -- famous speeches, news articles, slogans and themes, even your love letters -- into a visually stunning tag cloud, words individually sized appropriately to highlight the frequencies of occurence within the body of text.

<span style="color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 151.2%; text-align: left;">**__WordSift__** @http://www.wordsift.com/visualize <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> media type="youtube" key="1JfvsQzcCWU" height="344" width="425"

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 110%;">iPads and Word Clouds
<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #666666; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Trebuchet,sans-serif;">There are __<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #666666; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Trebuchet,sans-serif;">not __<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #666666; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Trebuchet,sans-serif;"> actually a lot of Cloud Word apps for the iPad but here are a couple worth investigating. <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #666666; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Trebuchet,sans-serif;">The last two are technically not word cloud apps but are so good I thought I should include them. If you know of others please let me know in the comments and I will add them to the list.




 * <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #666666; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Trebuchet,sans-serif;">TagCloud: $0.99 AU **

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #666666; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Trebuchet,sans-serif;">Make tag clouds from your iPad! Create a word cloud from a web page, custom text. <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #666666; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Trebuchet,sans-serif;">The app comes with more than 25 different styles of clouds, from plain black and white style to fun and colorful. <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #666666; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Trebuchet,sans-serif;">Share your cloud with the world by exporting the cloud high-res image to your photo library, email or tweet.

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #b87209; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Trebuchet,sans-serif; text-decoration: none;">@https://itunes.apple.com/au/app/tagcloud/id540921415?mt=8


 * <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #666666; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Trebuchet,sans-serif;">CloudArt: $0.99 AU **

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #666666; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Trebuchet,sans-serif;">Make word clouds on your iPad. Simply give Cloudart some text from a web page or paste some into the app and it will <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #666666; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Trebuchet,sans-serif;">automatically create a word cloud for you in seconds. Next, get busy with the intuitive sliders to customise your cloud to your heart's content. <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #666666; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Trebuchet,sans-serif;">When you're happy with your masterpiece, share it.

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #b87209; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Trebuchet,sans-serif; text-decoration: none;">@https://itunes.apple.com/au/app/cloudart/id598345649?mt=8 <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #666666; display: block; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Trebuchet,sans-serif; text-align: center;">**Word Salad: FREE** <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #666666; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Trebuchet,sans-serif;">Make wordsalads out of documents that matter to you! With WordSalad you can make beautiful word clouds, <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #666666; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Trebuchet,sans-serif;">super customized with different fonts, colors and words layouts. Import any text with a single tap, then customize your salads with <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #666666; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Trebuchet,sans-serif;">8 great fonts with 8 great palettes as well as 5 layouts to position your words.

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #b87209; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Trebuchet,sans-serif; text-decoration: none;">https://itunes.apple.com/au/app/wordsalad-your-salads/id545164778?mt=8


 * <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #666666; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Trebuchet,sans-serif;">Visual Poetry: $1.99 AU **

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #666666; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Trebuchet,sans-serif;">Visual Poetry lets you make text collages. Type your text and watch it instantly arranged as a mosaic in a variety of shapes and styles. <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #666666; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Trebuchet,sans-serif;">Draw your own or use one of the 24 symbols included. Concrete Poetry is poetry in which the meaning is portrayed in a visual manner, easily taught using the Visual Poetry application.

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #b87209; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Trebuchet,sans-serif; text-decoration: none;">@https://itunes.apple.com/au/app/visual-poetry-word-collage/id364299857?mt=8

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #666666; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Trebuchet,sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Create word collages on your iPad! Set up a collage with different layouts, fonts, and color
 * <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #666666; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Trebuchet,sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Word Collage: $0.99 AU **

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #b87209; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Trebuchet,sans-serif; text-decoration: none;">@https://itunes.apple.com/au/app/word-collage/id527057508?mt=8


 * <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #666666; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Trebuchet,sans-serif;">Phoetic: $0.99 AU **

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #666666; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Trebuchet,sans-serif;">Create phoems with your own photos and text! A phoem is an image consisting of text only. <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #666666; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Trebuchet,sans-serif;">Choose your own words, select your favorite photo, pick a font and color palette and turn them in a work of art. <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #666666; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Trebuchet,sans-serif;">The result can be stored as a PNG, JPEG or even a PDF to allow for printing at extremely high resolutions.

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #b87209; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Trebuchet,sans-serif; text-decoration: none;">@https://itunes.apple.com/au/app/phoetic-amazing-photo-word/id546829744?mt=8


 * <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #666666; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Trebuchet,sans-serif;">Type Drawing: $2.99 AU **

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #666666; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Trebuchet,sans-serif;">TypeDrawing is an easy way for creating typography art and even unique watermarks on your photos. Type a sentence, then just draw with your finger. Voila! You've now got a one of a kind, unique and amazing typographic work of art. You can easily create poetic visual art with this fun and easy-to-use app.

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #b87209; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Trebuchet,sans-serif; text-decoration: none;">@https://itunes.apple.com/au/app/typedrawing-for-ipad/id372350676?mt=8


 * <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #666666; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Trebuchet,sans-serif;">Wordfoto: $1.99 AU **

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #666666; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Trebuchet,sans-serif;">You've probably heard the cliche about a picture being worth a thousand words. Wordfoto takes this phrase quite <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #666666; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Trebuchet,sans-serif;">literally and created an app that turns photos and words into amazing typographic works of art. Eight unique Preset Styles <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #666666; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Trebuchet,sans-serif;">with user definable custom styles with parameters for brightness, contrast, fonts, etc.

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #b87209; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Trebuchet,sans-serif; text-decoration: none;">@https://itunes.apple.com/au/app/wordfoto/id414002091?mt=8

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 110%;">Adding Fonts
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">**1001 Free Fonts for Mac & Windows** <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;"> @http://www.1001freefonts.com/

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;"> **DaFont** <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;"> @http://www.dafont.com/

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;"> **Urban Fonts** <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;"> @http://www.urbanfonts.com/

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;"> **Free Fonts** <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;"> @http://www.free-fonts.com/

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;"> **FontSpace** <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;"> @http://www.free-fonts.com/

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;"> **Search FreeFonts** <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;"> @http://www.searchfreefonts.com/

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;"> **Simply the Best Free Fonts** <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;"> @http://simplythebest.net/fonts/

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;"> **Acid Fonts** <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;"> @http://www.acidfonts.com/

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;"> **20 Free Kid Fonts** <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 90%;">@http://bestdesignoptions.com/?p=6154