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Show HN: Easily Create Text Backgrounds (textbgs.com)
6 points by Osbro 1598 days ago
2 comments

Hey folks,

This app allows to easily create SVG backgrounds revolving around text.

Quick back story on why I wanted to make this.

Whilst scanning the web for SVG generators and background makers, I saw a bunch that worked with patterns, but none for text! So I decided to start making it.

Key features:

- Change the font-family to anything available from Google fonts - Choose between diagonal and spiral text - Customize font size, stroke width, rotation etc

If you have any questions or feedback they are more than welcome.

I have a few more ideas I could implement, like different presets for the text shapes (wavy, 3D..)

And also stuff like gradient backgrounds, but I’ll only do those if this is actually useful to anyone aha

Have a good one!

PS - This is an open-source project, if you enjoy using this tool and want to contribute I'd be happy to review your PRs

https://github.com/samuelOsborne/svg-text-bgs

Could you share github link here?
Great work, but on my phone (Chrome on Android) the layout is confusing because the settings panel is way below with a big white space between. Took me quite a while to find it.

Also second the GitHub link.

Hi Beardyw,

Thanks for that info, I haven't had the chance to test out on Android so thanks for letting me know.

Github link is in my first comment, it's also on the website

Cheers