Banbu, the Banner Builder

The goal is to create a library that will make it easy to create various simple banners for YouTube, Meetup, and also for the Code Maven SSG.

Use as a command line tool:

Install as a CLI tool

If you have Rust on your system you can type in the following command:

cargo install banner-builder

If you don't have Rust, we'll supply a pre-compiled binary. TODO

Use as a CLI tool:

Create a YAML file based on the example found on the web site

Run the command supplying the path to the YAML file and the path to the image you'd like to generate:

banbu hello_world.yaml hello_world.png

Examples

Hello World

examples/hello_world.yaml

---
width: 1000
height: 500
text: Hello World!

banbu site/examples/hello_world.yaml hello_world.png

Alpha

examples/hello_world_with_alpha.yaml

---
width: 1000
height: 500
text: Hello World!
background_color: 66b04f00

YouTube Thumbnail

examples/youtube_thumbnail_text_background.yaml

---
width: 1280
height: 720
text: Some longer text
background_color: 66b04f

Wrap long text

examples/wrap_text.yaml

---
width: 640
height: 360
text: This text should be way too long to display in one line, so it needs to be wrapped
background_color: 37c859

Embed images

examples/embed_image.yaml

---
width: 1000
height: 500
text: Rust logo
background_color: AAAAAA
embed:
  - file: rust.png
    x: 100
    y: 20

Resize embedded images

examples/resize_image.yaml

---
width: 896
height: 896
text:
background_color: AAAAAA
embed:
  - file: rust-logo-512x512.png
    x: 0
    y: 0
  - file: rust-logo-512x512.png
    x: 512
    y: 512
    width: 256
  - file: rust-logo-512x512.png
    x: 768
    y: 768
    width: 128

Add text with location (lines)

examples/lines.yaml

---
width: 1000
height: 500
text: ""
lines:
  - text: First line
    x: 30
    y: 20
  - text: Second row
    x: 50
    y: 120
background_color: 999999

Add text with location (lines) and color

examples/lines_with_color.yaml

---
width: 1000
height: 500
text: ""
lines:
  - text: Red line
    x: 30
    y: 20
    color: FF0000FF
  - text:  Green text
    x: 50
    y: 120
    color: 00FF00FF
  - text: Blue text
    x: 300
    y: 120
    color: 0000FFFF
background_color: FFFFFFFF

RTL (Right to left) text

examples/lines_rtl.yaml

---
width: 1000
height: 500
text: ""
lines:
  - text: Left to right text
    x: 30
    y: 20
    size: 50
  - text: The next line is in Hebrew
    x: 30
    y: 120
    size: 50
  - text: written from right to left
    x: 30
    y: 220
    size: 50
  - text: טקסט בעברית
    x: 970
    y: 350
    size: 50
    rtl: true
background_color: FFFFFFFF

Banners generated by DEV.to are 1000x500 pixel

Some other banners I saw on Facebook and LinkedIn:

• 1000x500
• 800x400
• 500x300