Adding drop shadows to fonts?

[wanderling]

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Text is hard to read on pattered backgrounds.

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Adding drop shadows or support for chromatic fonts would be a great help.

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• Revision of this project [e.g. 1.1.1, main branch, specific commit]
  3.1.0
• OS with version [e.g. Windows 11, Ubuntu 22.04]
  Linux Mint 21.2 Victoria
• Python version [e.g. Python 3.8]
  Python 3.10.12
• Hardware [e.g. Intel CPU, Nvidia GPU, Raspberry Pi 3 B+ ...]
  OptiPlex 3020M

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[ghost]

This might be doable by overlaying text twice with different colors and slightly offset from each other. This trick can be used to cause text to appear sunken or raised up depending on the colors used.

[mathoudebine]

You're right, something like this could be used: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/67473444/how-to-make-text-shadow-effect-in-pillow-python
Unfortunately there is no native function to add shadows to PIL texts

[mathoudebine]

Also relevant: draw the text multiple times with 1-pixel offsets: https://itecnote.com/tecnote/python-text-shadow-with-python/