Custom Colors & Backgrounds for Word Clouds

Enhance your word clouds with custom colors, gradients, and background images. Choose a theme, generate a color palette, or upload your own design.

A bright and colorful picture with a tablet screen displaying a word cloud in white and yellow text colors.

Color Palette

Choose the perfect color palette for your word cloud. Generate a random palette, adjust colors manually, or use the color picker to match your design easily in the word cloud editor.

Text Colors

  • Choose 1 to 5 colors for words.
  • Use the color picker to match word cloud colors to your theme.
  • Save your favorite palettes for quick access.
A Happy Birthday word cloud using 4 colors for words: pink, orange, purple, and green.

Background Color

  • Select a solid or gradient background color.
  • Make the background transparent for easy printing of the word cloud image.
A Happy Birthday word cloud using a green background.

Shape Colors

  • Optionally, set a background color for the word cloud shape.
  • Add a shape outline. Adjust color and border thickness.
A Happy Birthday word cloud using a yellow balloon shape with a green outline.

Gradient Word Clouds

  • Apply linear or radial gradients to all color settings.
  • Pick up to 5 gradient colors. Adjust angles and color distribution.
  • Easily switch between solid colors and gradients.
  • For text color gradients, words blend into a single gradient across the entire word cloud.

Background Image

  • Upload a custom background image or pick from built-in options.
  • Search thousands of free stock images.
  • Adjust transparency to blend with the background color.

Palette Library

Save and store your favorite color palettes to the library.

Quickly apply a saved palette to any word cloud.

Start now

Head on to the Word Cloud Generator Dashboard to create a word cloud right now.

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