Generate text-centric icons for your Mac OS X dock.
Examples:
pip install icon-writer
from icon_writer import write_icon
image = write_icon("VSCODE", bgcolor=(0, 102, 185), fontcolor="white")
image.save("icon.png")
The function signature for write_icon shows the arguments and their defaults:
write_icon(text, size=80, bgcolor="white", fontcolor="black")
Install requirements:
pip install -e requirements-dev.txt
Install pre-commit hook:
pre-commit install
Run tests:
black . tests/
First, update the version in pyproject.toml. Then run:
rm -rf dist/
python3 -m build
python3 -m twine upload dist/*
FAQs
A tiny package for writing Mac OS X text-only dock icons
We found that icon-writer demonstrated a healthy version release cadence and project activity because the last version was released less than a year ago. It has 1 open source maintainer collaborating on the project.
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