I've been developing my design by coming up with different visual designs for the appearance/theme of my artefact.
I did some google searches for 'tag cloud' and found some interesting design/layouts, like this one:
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| A design of a tagcloud |
I noticed that it
- emphasized the contrast between the big and the small. Overall this created a better visual composition.
- There was no smooth transition between small/large font, the effect was Be RaNDoM
- The overall shape was round/ circular
I had a play with increasing the range between min/max font sizes and used css "text align: center".
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| Playing around with font size range |
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| Centering those tags! |
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| Color variation |
Next steps
I've been thinking, yes I am creating a tag cloud, which could include influences from what tagcloud design (look and feel), but I am creating a timeline too. So, why not, incorporate design influences from both! Think how the timeline feel would look with the tag cloud!
Google: How to style tagcloud / timeline. Some of this is about: typography/style VERSUS whats technically do-able on the web
