Draw bold/italic text with PIL?

Question

How to draw bold/italic text with PIL? ImageFont.truetype(file, size) has an option to specify font size only.

Answer 1

Use the bold/italic version of the font

Answer 2

A rather hacky solution to make a font bold if (for whatever reason) you don't have a separate bold version of the font is to print the same text several times with a slight offset.

andaleMono = ImageFont.truetype(ANDALE_MONO_PATH,16)
text = "hello world"
mainOffset = (50,50)
xoff, yoff = mainOffset
draw.text(mainOffset,text,font=andaleMono,fill='black')
draw.text((xoff+1,yoff+1),text,font=andaleMono,fill='black')
draw.text((xoff-1,yoff-1),text,font=andaleMono,fill='black')

Answer 3

There is no bold features as parameter till now but easily you can solve by add stroke to the text with same color of text. it will make sense as bold font next code elaborate how to use stroke

    draw.text((x, y), text, fill=color, font=font, stroke_width=2,
          stroke_fill="black")

Answer 4

Many fonts use different TTF files for their bold/italic versions, so I'd imagine if you just specify that file it would work.