Steve Thank you for your reply. Is there a way how to find out a complementary colour for an area where I will write the text, so that the text will be seen clearly?Is there a routine in PIL or in Python somewhere? Thank you for help Lad.
> > I use PIL to write some text to a picture.The text must be seen wery > > clearly. > > I write the text to different pictures but to the same position. As > > pictures maybe different, colour, in the position where I write the > > text, is also different. > > Is there a way how to set the font colour so that it will be seen very > > clearly in the picture? > > For example, if the picture is bright ( for example yellow), the font > > colour should be dark( e.g. black) and vice versa. > > Can anyone help? > > Thanks > > L. > > > The easy way to ensure this is to paint a background rectangle of an > appropriate color to ensure good font contrast before writing the text. > Of course, this obscures rather more of the image in the background than > you might otherwise. > > Apart from that you could try averaging the pixel values in the area you > are going to paint on, and then choose a font color that contrasts well > with the average. If there are large variations in color, however, this > can give disappointing results. > > If you'd like to get some insight into color contrast you could do worse > than start at > > http://wellstyled.com/tools/colorscheme2/index-en.html > > regards > Steve > -- > Steve Holden +1 571 484 6266 +1 800 494 3119 > Holden Web LLC/Ltd http://www.holdenweb.com > Skype: holdenweb http://del.icio.us/steve.holden > Recent Ramblings http://holdenweb.blogspot.com > > -- > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
