The problem is that there is still have a huge variation in size between the large words and the small words.Įmphasis is the setting that determines the difference in size of your words based on how many times those words appear on the list. If you do nothing but reduce the total word count, you will end up with fewer words like this:

But having a lot of words also means the words themselves will be rather small. If you don’t have at least 200 words in your original word list, the Tagxedo app will duplicate some of them in order to fill the space. Maximum Word Count is another important setting. There are a lot of ways to manipulate the words, but we are only going to focus on the top three menu items. This is what that menu looks like (and these are the setting for the blue hand image above): For that you need to manipulate the settings under the “Layout Options” menu. The easiest way to do that is click the arrow next to Theme and choose “Black on white.” You also may want to choose a larger block style font (the arrow next to Font) and change the orientation of the words themselves (random, horizontal, vertical, or orthogonal.)Ĭhanging some of the options are obvious in the menu above (color, font type, orientation) but the key to a good word art cut file is having words that are large enough to cut. Some of the words are way too small, and don’t have enough contrast to trace successfully.įirst you want to turn all the words black.

It is super cute, but not at all useable as a cut file. Some of the menu options are self explanatory, but here is a quick summary of what each of the options does:įor my example (a Father’s Day hand print) I used a list of adjectives that could be used to describe a father. You also can past a url if you are interested in a ‘word cloud’ effect.) (Good things to use include poems, lists of adjectives or synonyms, or song lyrics. To start your word art, click on the “Load” option and paste in whatever words you want to use to make up your image.

You will also see the menu on the left side of the screen: When you first open up the Tagxedo app, the default graphic is a sample “Mother Earth” globe. I am only scratching the surface with what this program can do, but this is enough to get you started. So how do you customize it with the app? Here is a quick and dirty tutorial of just the highlights.