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Word Clouds in Java. Version 1.28 via Homebrew; verified from local package data.
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Package summary
Word Clouds in Java
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Commands and aliases
- kumo
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Project history and usage
Kumo is a Java word-cloud library and CLI created by Kenny Cason, with a project history centered on generating word-cloud images directly from Java rather than through browser applets or external services.
Project history
Kenny Cason introduced Kumo in a July 3, 2014 blog post as a Java word-cloud library that could directly generate an image file or return a BufferedImage. The GitHub README keeps that framing: Kumo is intended to be a powerful, user-friendly Java API for word-cloud rendering.
Adoption history
Kumo's main adoption channel is the Java ecosystem through Maven Central artifacts such as `kumo-core`, with a later Homebrew formula exposing the CLI as a standalone command. The project is niche, but it has persisted because word-cloud generation is a recurring visualization need and the Java API includes shapes, colors, tokenizers, and collision strategies.
How it is used
Library users feed text through a `FrequencyAnalyzer`, build a `WordCloud` with a chosen dimension, collision mode, background, palette, and font scaling strategy, then write the resulting image. CLI users can generate standard, polar, or layered word clouds from local files or URLs and tune inputs, output size, stop words, collision mode, colors, font scaling, and tokenization.
Why package nerds care
Kumo is package-nerd interesting as a small visualization library that crossed from Maven dependency to Homebrew CLI. It is not a broad media platform; its value is that a specific Java image-generation library became scriptable as a packaged command.
Timeline
- 2014: Kenny Cason published the Kumo Java word-cloud announcement and linked the GitHub repository.
- 2010s: Kumo became available through Maven Central modules such as `kumo-core` and `kumo-tokenizers`.
- 2020s: The repository documents a Homebrew-installable CLI and a dedicated CLI usage guide.
- 2025: The README records maintainer intent to revisit issues and consider a Kotlin conversion.
Related projects
- Kumo is related to Java AWT image generation, Maven Central Java libraries, tokenizer libraries, word-cloud visualizers, and command-line media generation tools.
Sources
security posture
Risk level: orange
infrastructure mutation or orchestration signal.
Risk classifier
orange risk · medium confidence · infrastructure
Why
- infrastructure mutation or orchestration signal
Signals
- text:cloud
Install behavior
- No Homebrew bottle metadata was recorded.
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Installed executables
| Command | Kind | Exposure | Note |
|---|---|---|---|
kumo | executable | indexed executable | Discovered from the local executable index. |
freshness
Version and freshness
These signals separate page generation age, package-manager activity, and upstream release comparison. Version lag is warned only when an evidence URL and comparable versions are present.
page generated2026-08-03
manager version1.28
manager updated
local dataunknown
upstreamnot available
latest detectednot detected
- okNo freshness warnings were generated.
install metadata
Package metadata
| Package key | brew:kumo |
|---|---|
| Version | 1.28 |
| Package manager | Homebrew |
| Homepage | https://github.com/kennycason/kumo |
| Bottle | not recorded |
| Service | none declared |
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