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This is explained in the README of the project's Github repository: https://github.com/anvaka/common-words#how-are-word-clouds-r...

There's a description of the method in the Readme

https://github.com/anvaka/common-words#how-are-word-clouds-r...

Unfortunately it's not using size as a metric like mouse word clouds. This confused me at first. Look at the size of 'err' in the go layout.

It looks to me as if it is. There just are a lot of uses of "err" in typical Go code.

It's humorous that in Go err/nil happens so often that it's "unbelievable" in a literal sense

It uses it as long as there is enough space. Once it fails to find a rectangle to fit a new word, it tries to reduce the size of the word.

In general, word clouds are bad for comparing sizes. For that reason I used plain list in the sidebar on the left (or at the bottom if you are on mobile)