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Render a static title / ending card PNG with Pillow. Centered headline + optional subtitle on a solid-colour background. CJK-friendly font fallback (Microsoft YaHei → SimHei → Songti → Noto CJK → bitmap). Pure deterministic, no LLM, no network. Used by meta-short-drama for opening and closing cards.

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title-card-image

Renders a centered-text PNG suitable for a cover / ending card before animating into a clip with video-still-animator.

Inputs (with:)

keyrequireddefaultnotes
textyes—Headline text. Auto-wraps at ~10 chars per line for CJK.
outputyes—Output .png path.
subtitleno""Smaller line beneath the headline.
backgroundno#101018Hex color #RRGGBB.
text_colorno#ffffffHeadline color.
font_sizeno96Headline font size in pixels.
subtitle_sizeno36Subtitle font size in pixels.
widthno720Output width in pixels. Match the merge pipeline.
heightno1280Output height. 720x1280 = 9:16.

Output

Prints the absolute path of the written PNG on stdout. The PNG is RGB (no alpha), JPEG-quality-equivalent file ~30-80 KB depending on text length.

Font fallback

Tries --font if explicit, else walks a CJK-aware list of platform defaults (Microsoft YaHei / SimHei on Windows, PingFang on macOS, Noto CJK / WenQuanYi on Linux). If nothing loads, falls back to Pillow's bundled bitmap font — CJK characters render as squares ("tofu") in that worst-case but the program never crashes.

Limits

  • No alpha / transparency.
  • No rich text styling (italic / drop-shadow / gradient). For richer cards, generate a real image via nano-banana-pro instead.
  • Headline wrap is character-count-based for CJK and whitespace-based for ASCII; mixed strings break at the CJK character count.