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Generate text-centric icons for your Mac OS X dock.

Examples:

Edge icon

VS Code icon

Teams icon

Usage instructions

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")

Development instructions

Install requirements:

pip install -e requirements-dev.txt

Install pre-commit hook:

pre-commit install

Run tests:

black . tests/

Deployment steps

First, update the version in pyproject.toml. Then run:

rm -rf dist/
python3 -m build
python3 -m twine upload dist/*

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