jbenton / meme

Meme generator

Meme

Author: Yuri Victor

Meme is a generator that Vox Media uses to create social sharing images.

Install

• git clone https://github.com/yurivictor/meme.git
• bundle install
• bundle exec middleman

This will start a local web server running at: http://localhost:4567/

Examples

• https://twitter.com/voxdotcom/status/481671889094340608
• https://twitter.com/voxdotcom/status/479228288221470721
• https://twitter.com/voxdotcom/status/481619042545844225

Design decisions

Images are base64 and javascript is inline because of some strange canvas constructs which don't allow external data sources which can happen when using CDNs or other stuff.

I chose middleman because there are great sensible defaults, but there's no reason this couldn't be a single page html file.

Extras

Add fonts

Include your own fonts in stylesheets/_fonts.scss

Fonts are handled with sizes as variables in the javascript and can be added here

Add watermark

Convert an svg to base64 and add here

Contributing

1. Fork it ( https://github.com/voxmedia/meme/fork )
2. Create your feature branch (git checkout -b my-new-feature)
3. Commit your changes (git commit -am 'Add some feature')
4. Push to the branch (git push origin my-new-feature)
5. Create a new Pull Request

License

Copyright (c) 2014 Vox Media Inc., Yuri Victor

BSD license

Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions are met:

1. Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer.

2. Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution.

3. Neither the name of the copyright holder nor the names of its contributors may be used to endorse or promote products derived from this software without specific prior written permission.

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