Creating Infographics: Visualization Tools

Web based tool for creating infographics with some free templates and more for the paid service.

Web-based tool for creating conceptual visualization and storytelling.

Web-based tool for creating digital infographics that can be embeded on a website and/or published and linked to the infogra.am site. Create charts using real data with 31 chart options.

Web-based tool that has six decent free themes (and a whole bunch more for the paid version) for creating simple visualizations.

Provides a collection of tools for creating more complex and interactive visualizations using your own data sets and development environments.

Downloadable software where you can upload a spreadsheet or CSV and create a variety of interactive data visualizations (Windows only).

Uses a Google spreadsheet with links to YouTube, Flickr, Twitter, Sound Cloud and other media sources to create timelines.

Create interactive maps using the award-winning free StatPlanet software. Explore thousands of world stats through interactive maps and data visualizations.

A free open source 3D data visualization software application.

Generate “word clouds” from text that you provide. The clouds give greater prominence to words that appear more frequently in the source

Tagxedo turns words - famous speeches, news articles, slogans and themes, even your love letters - into a visually stunning word cloud. Use shape templates to make the cloud form an image.

Find free icon sets (be sure to follow attribution requirements).

Find free icon sets (be sure to follow attribution requirements).

Find free icon sets (be sure to follow attribution requirements).

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A tool to help you select the type of visualisation to help display your data.

Web tool to help you select the ideal typeface. Wordmark.it detects the fonts installed on your computer with the help of a simple Adobe Flash script and displays the results using HTML and JavaScript.

Web game with examples of font pairings with information on why certain typefaces work with others and why some do not.

Download free typefaces

Learn about and purchase low cost typefaces. Check out the blog to learn the art of typeface design.

Open-source type foundry for downloading new typefaces along with a blog and newsletter on typeface design.

Download free fonts

Type foundry with free and low fee fonts

Typeface are a set of letters with the same basic design. Font describes the particular weight and sizes available within a typeface (bold size 8, italic size 12, etc...). The distinction between the two has gotten muddled with the rise of desktop publishing (think: no little blocks to set in place on a printing press anymore).

"Even type experts agree: Typeface and font can be used interchangeably at this point. But if you come across an annoying pedant who cares deeply about maintaining the distinction for the masses, just remember this: The difference between a font and a typeface is the same as that between songs and an album. The former makes up the latter. Remember that and you're good to go." --John Brownlee