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Adds meme-style top and bottom text to images using bundled Impact and CJK fonts. Use when overlaying captions on an image, generating meme images, or reproducing the meme_agent text rendering behavior.

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Meme Text Overlay

Use this skill when an image needs meme-style captions: white text, black stroke, centered top and bottom placement, automatic wrapping, and CJK-aware font selection.

Included files

  • scripts/overlay_text.py: reusable Pillow-based CLI and Python helper.
  • fonts/impact.ttf: default font for Latin and Cyrillic text.
  • fonts/BlackHanSans-Regular.ttf: Korean Hangul fallback.
  • fonts/DelaGothicOne-Regular.ttf: Japanese kana fallback.
  • fonts/ZCOOLQingKeHuangYou-Regular.ttf: Chinese/CJK fallback.

Default workflow

  1. Use scripts/overlay_text.py unless the user specifically needs code integrated elsewhere.
  2. Pass the source image, output path, top text, and bottom text.
  3. Keep the default maximum output side of 512px; the script preserves the source image aspect ratio. Use --preserve-size only when the user asks to keep original dimensions.

Example:

python scripts/overlay_text.py input.png output.png \
  --top "TOP TEXT" \
  --bottom "BOTTOM TEXT"

Preserve original image dimensions:

python scripts/overlay_text.py input.png output.png \
  --top "верхний текст" \
  --bottom "нижний текст" \
  --preserve-size

Rendering behavior

  • Latin and Cyrillic text is uppercased before wrapping.
  • CJK text is wrapped character by character and is not uppercased.
  • Font choice is based on all caption text:
    • Hangul: BlackHanSans-Regular.ttf
    • Kana: DelaGothicOne-Regular.ttf
    • Other CJK: ZCOOLQingKeHuangYou-Regular.ttf
    • Non-CJK: impact.ttf
  • Text is drawn in white with a black stroke.
  • Top text starts at margin_ratio from the top.
  • Bottom text is rendered from the bottom upward.