textorize: for a more beautiful web¶ ↑
Official homepage: textorize.org
textorize produces beautifully subpixel antialiased text graphics on OS X, through a Rubycocoa Ruby script.
Output format is always PNG.
Learn more¶ ↑
Visit textorize.org and view the presentation on why this is awesome and how it compares to other “web typography” solutions and techniques.
Install¶ ↑
Grab the textorize gem, and you’re done:
$ gem install textorize
This will install the textorize Ruby Gem, and the textorize command line tool.
textorize used gemcutter, so if you haven’t installed it yet, do:
$ gem install gemcutter
If you’re not using the default ruby environment on OS X, you’ll need to install RubyCocoa.
Here’s how: rubycocoa.sourceforge.net/GettingStarted
Usage (command line tool)¶ ↑
Usage: textorize [options] string
-f, --font=[FONT] Font name
-s, --size=[SIZE] Font size in point
-l, --lineheight=[HEIGHT] Line height in point
-t, --ligatures=[TYPE] Ligatures usage: all, standard or off
--list-fonts List available fonts
-k, --kerning=[VALUE] Kerning adjustment
-p, --padding=[VALUE] Padding in px
-o, --output=[FILENAME] Specify filename for saving
-b, --obliqueness=[ANGLE] Slant angle
-c, --color=[COLOR] Render text in specific color (CSS color value)
-g, --background=[COLOR] Render background in specific color (CSS color value)
-a, --smoothing=[VALUE] Font smoothing: 0=no subpixel AA, 1=light, 2=normal, 3=strong
-h, --help Display this message and exit
The color parameters take any CSS color, in #abc, #aabbcc, rgb(1,2,3) or rgba(1,2,3,0.5) format.
Examples¶ ↑
textorize -f"Gotham" -s200 Hello textorize -fLucida\ Grande -s150 --color=rgba\(12,56,99,0.5\) --background=#ff8080 foo\ bar
Contribute!¶ ↑
Contributions in the form of bug fixes, features and documentation are always welcome!
textorize is released under the MIT license. © 2009 Thomas Fuchs <thomas@fesch.at>.
NSColor extensions taken from LimeChat, github.com/psychs/limechat. LimeChat is copyrighted free software by Satoshi Nakagawa <psychs@limechat.net>.