Inspired by various Andoid themes on xda-developers, I wanted text only icons.
I started whipping up icons in Photoshop, but it was a pain to try new fonts (yes I know PS has scripting...).
So I created a python script to generate a series of icons and zip them up.
The script uses Python Image Library, to render separate transparent PNG files.
from PIL import Image, ImageDraw, ImageFont
import zipfile
import os
class iconpack:
def __init__(self, zipfsp, fontfsp, fontsize, height, width):
self.zip=zipfile.ZipFile(zipfsp, mode='w') # create the zip file
self.fontfsp=fontfsp
self.fontsize=fontsize
self.h=height
self.w=width
def addicon(self,lines):
iconfsp=self.render(lines)
self.zip.write(iconfsp) # add the icon tot he zip file
os.remove(iconfsp) # delete the remaining icon file
def render(self, lines):
im =Image.new("RGBA",(self.w,self.h),(0,0,0,0)) # adjust the 4th zero to adjust transparency
draw = ImageDraw.Draw(im)
font = ImageFont.truetype(self.fontfsp,self.fontsize) # the font file needs to be accessible
y=0
for line in lines:
rendered_hw=font.getsize(line) # figure out how wide the rendered text will be
x=im.size[0]/2-(rendered_hw[0]/2) # so we can centre it
draw.text((x,y), line, font=font)
y+=rendered_hw[1]-5 # adust the gap between the lines
# write image file
iconfsp=lines[0]+"_"+lines[1]+".png"
im.save(iconfsp, "png")
del im
return iconfsp
# II saw an iconpack on xda which used 46x81, on the shoulders of giants, etc
# zipfile, font file, font size, width and height
ip=iconpack('DroidSans.zip','DroidSans.ttf',23,46,81)
ip.addicon(["Inter", "Webs"])
ip.addicon(["My", "Email"])
ip.addicon(["Work", "Email"])
ip.addicon(["Snap", "Shot"])
ip.addicon(["Pod", "Casts"])
ip.addicon(["Audio", "Books"])
ip.addicon(["The", "Mrs"])
ip.addicon(["Bar", "Code"])
ip.addicon(["Four", "Square"])
ip.addicon(["SMS", ""])
ip.addicon(["Maps", ""])
ip.addicon(["Reddit", "is fun"])
Here's hows the icons turned out. I tried a few fonts from FontSpace, but settled on DroidSans.
