Automate a Quotation Image for Twitter in Python in 5 Easy Steps

    quote = "Mostly, when you see programmers, they aren’t doing anything.  One of the attractive things about programmers is that you cannot tell whether or not they are working simply by looking at them.  Very often they’re sitting there seemingly drinking coffee and gossiping, or just staring into space.  What the programmer is trying to do is get a handle on all the individual and unrelated ideas that are scampering around in his head."
    quote_by = "Charles M. Strauss"
len(quote) = 430

pip install pillow

from PIL import Image, ImageDraw, ImageFont, ImageEnhance
# picture setup - it is set up for Twitter recommendations
WIDTH = 1024
HEIGHT = 512
# the margin are set by my preferences
MARGIN = 50
MARGIN_TOP = 50
MARGIN_BOTTOM = 150
LOGO_MARGIN = 25
# font variables
FONT_SIZES = [110, 100, 90, 80, 75, 70, 65, 60, 55, 50, 45, 40, 35, 30, 25, 20]
FONT_QUOTE = 'font-text'
FONT_QUOTED_BY = 'font-quoted-by'
FONT_SIZE = 'font-size'
FONT_QUOTED_BY_SIZE = 'font-quoted-by-size'
# Font colors
WHITE = 'rgb(255, 255, 255)'
GREY = 'rgb(200, 200, 200)'
# output text
OUTPUT_QUOTE = 'quote'
OUTPUT_QUOTED_BY = 'quoted-by'
OUTPUT_LINES = 'lines'

def text_wrap_and_font_size(output, font_style, max_width, max_height):
    for font_size in FONT_SIZES:
        output[OUTPUT_LINES] = []
        font = ImageFont.truetype(font_style[FONT_QUOTE], size=font_size, encoding="unic")
        output[OUTPUT_QUOTE] = " ".join(output[OUTPUT_QUOTE].split())
        if font.getsize(output[OUTPUT_QUOTE])[0] <= max_width:
            output[OUTPUT_LINES].append(output[OUTPUT_QUOTE])
        else:
            words = output[OUTPUT_QUOTE].split()
            line = ""
            for word in words:
                if font.getsize(line + " " + word)[0] <= max_width:
                    line += " " + word
                else:
                    output[OUTPUT_LINES].append(line)
                    line = word
            output[OUTPUT_LINES].append(line)
        line_height = font.getsize('lp')[1]
        quoted_by_font_size = font_size
        quoted_by_font = ImageFont.truetype(font_style[FONT_QUOTED_BY], size=quoted_by_font_size, encoding="unic")
        while quoted_by_font.getsize(output[OUTPUT_QUOTED_BY])[0] > max_width//2:
            quoted_by_font_size -= 1
            quoted_by_font = ImageFont.truetype(font_style[FONT_QUOTED_BY], size=quoted_by_font_size, encoding="unic")
        if line_height*len(output[OUTPUT_LINES]) + quoted_by_font.getsize('lp')[1] < max_height:
            font_style[FONT_SIZE] = font_size
            font_style[FONT_QUOTED_BY_SIZE] = quoted_by_font_size
            return True
    # we didn't succeed find a font size that would match within the block of text
    return False

def draw_text(image, output, font_style):
    draw = ImageDraw.Draw(image)
    lines = output[OUTPUT_LINES]
    font = ImageFont.truetype(font_style[FONT_QUOTE], size=font_style[FONT_SIZE], encoding="unic")
    line_height = font.getsize('lp')[1]
    y = MARGIN_TOP
    for line in lines:
        x = (WIDTH - font.getsize(line)[0]) // 2
        draw.text((x, y), line, fill=WHITE, font=font)
        y = y + line_height
    quoted_by = output[OUTPUT_QUOTED_BY]
    quoted_by_font = ImageFont.truetype(font_style[FONT_QUOTED_BY], size=font_style[FONT_QUOTED_BY_SIZE], encoding="unic")
    # position the quoted_by in the far right, but within margin
    x = WIDTH - quoted_by_font.getsize(quoted_by)[0] - MARGIN
    draw.text((x, y), quoted_by, fill=GREY, font=quoted_by_font)
    return image

def generate_image_with_quote(input_image, quote, quote_by, font_style, output_image):
    image = Image.open(input_image)
    # darken the image to make output more visible
    enhancer = ImageEnhance.Brightness(image)
    image = enhancer.enhance(0.5)
    # resize the image to fit Twitter
    image = image.resize((WIDTH, HEIGHT))
    # set logo on image
    logo_im = Image.open("pics/logo.png")
    l_width, l_height = logo_im.size
    image.paste(logo_im, (WIDTH - l_width - LOGO_MARGIN, HEIGHT - l_height - LOGO_MARGIN), logo_im)
    output = {OUTPUT_QUOTE: quote, OUTPUT_QUOTED_BY: quote_by}
    # we should check if it returns true, but it is ignorred here
    text_wrap_and_font_size(output, font_style, WIDTH - 2*MARGIN, HEIGHT - MARGIN_TOP - MARGIN_BOTTOM)
    # now it is time to draw the quote on our image and save it
    image = draw_text(image, output, font_style)
    image.save(output_image)

def main():
    # setup input and output image
    input_image = "pics/background.jpg"
    output_image = "quote_of_the_day.png"
    # setup font type
    font_style = {FONT_QUOTE: "font/BalsamiqSans-Bold.ttf", FONT_QUOTED_BY: "font/BalsamiqSans-Italic.ttf"}
    quote = "Mostly, when you see programmers, they aren’t doing anything.  One of the attractive things about programmers is that you cannot tell whether or not they are working simply by looking at them.  Very often they’re sitting there seemingly drinking coffee and gossiping, or just staring into space.  What the programmer is trying to do is get a handle on all the individual and unrelated ideas that are scampering around in his head."
    # quote = "YOU ARE AWESOME!"
    quote_by = "Charles M. Strauss"
    # quote_by = "Learn Python With Rune"
    # generates the quote image
    generate_image_with_quote(input_image, quote, quote_by, font_style, output_image)

if __name__ == "__main__":
    main()