madrobby / Textorize

= textorize: for a more beautiful web

Official homepage: http://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 http://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: http://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. (c) 2009 Thomas Fuchs [email protected].

NSColor extensions taken from LimeChat, http://github.com/psychs/limechat. LimeChat is copyrighted free software by Satoshi Nakagawa [email protected].