Christopher ,
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.
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> > Is there a way how to set the font colour so that it will be seen very
> > clearly in the picture?
>
> One way to do this in general is to put a background color behind the
> font. I don't see a way to do this automatically with PIL, but you can
> get the size of the text:
>
> font.getsize(text) => (width, height)
>
> Then draw a rectangle of that size before you draws the text. If you
> (for example) draw a white rectangle, then black text, you will be able
> to see that on top of any color.
>
> The option is to get fancy with determining the average color of th
> region where the text goes, then create a color that contrasts with
> that. However, if your text overlaps two (or more) regions of very
> different colors, it may be hard to automatically get a color that
> contrasts with all of them.
>
> -Chris
>
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