Lewis E. Moten III

A specialized tag cloud generator designed for blogs, archives, and taxonomy-based layouts. Dreamy Tags allows you to filter displayed tags by category, exclude organizational tags, and control minimum usage thresholds for cleaner, more meaningful tag clouds.
<h3>Development</h3>
Source code and build tools are maintained publicly on GitHub: https://github.com/lewismoten/dreamy-tags 
Build instructions are documented in the repository README.
<h3>Developer Notes</h3>
Developers may adjust the maximum number of posts scanned by the block 
using the <code>dreamy_tags_max_posts</code> filter.
Default: 2000
Example: 
add_filter( ‘dreamy_tags_max_posts’, function () { 
 return 10000; 
});
<h3>License</h3>
This plugin is licensed under the GPLv2 or later.
All artwork and icons included with this plugin were created by the author and are licensed under the same GPL license as the plugin.

Dreamy Tags

Dreamy Tags displays a customizable tag cloud filtered by categories and tags for clean, meaningful blog and archive navigation.

The Krotek

Customizable widget and shortcode to display tag cloud anywhere you want. You can use it as standard tag cloud widget, as shortcode in any post or page, or both ways. Tons of options allow you to fine tune cloud layout to your needs.
STANDARD FEATURES
<ul>
<li>Display list of post, category or link category tags.</li>
<li>Define number of tags to be displayed.</li>
<li>Set custom tag separator.</li>
<li>Select tag taxonomy: posts, categories or link categories.</li>
<li>Choose cloud mode: shortcode only, widget only or both.</li>
</ul>
PREMIUM FEATURES
<ul>
<li>Define smallest and largest tag size.</li>
<li>Select size unit: px, pt, em or percent.</li>
<li>Choose layout: standard flat cloud or unordered list.</li>
<li>Order tags by name or count.</li>
<li>Sort tags ascending, descending or randomize.</li>
<li>Define list of tags to exclude from cloud or include only.</li>
</ul>
You can purchase Premium version <a href="https://thekrotek.com/wordpress-extensions/tag-cloud" rel="nofollow ugc">here</a>.

Custom Tag Cloud

...but it at least is a little better than the one that comes with WordPress.

Free version is not very customizable...

Customizable widget and shortcode to display tag cloud anywhere you want.

Dreamy Tags vs Custom Tag Cloud