Python Imaging Library – Text rendering

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I came up with my own solution that I find acceptable.

What I did was render the text large, like 3x the size it needs to be then scale it resize it down with antialiasing, it’s not 100% perfect, but it’s a hell of a lot better than default, and doesn’t require cairo or pango.

for example,

image = Image.new("RGBA", (600,150), (255,255,255))
draw = ImageDraw.Draw(image)
font = ImageFont.truetype("resources/HelveticaNeueLight.ttf", fontsize)

draw.text((10, 0), txt, (0,0,0), font=font)
img_resized = image.resize((188,45), Image.ANTIALIAS)

and you endup with this result,

final result

which is a lot better than what I was getting before with the same font.

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