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Types of Tag Clouds

There is a variety of ways to implement tag clouds. Some methods are more popular than the other ones. Most clouds are primarily sorted alphabetically.

• Tags are sorted alphabetically. The most important or frequent terms are highlighted via an appropriate font size.
• Tags are sorted alphabetically. All terms have the same font size and weight. More important terms are highlighted with a font color or a background color.
• Tags are sorted according to their importance or frequency. Both font-size and colors can be used to emphasize the importance of terms.
• Tags aren’t sorted at all. Font-size, font-weight and colors in use.
• Tags are sorted according to their similarity. Similar terms appear as neighbours next to each other. A variety of visual formatting can be applied.