Create a Logo from the Command Line

April 21st, 2008 by Girish Venkatachalam in

You can create a neat logo from the Linux command line:

$ convert -size 800x120 xc:white -font Times-Roman
-pointsize 100 -fill gray -annotate +20+80 'Linux is cool!'
-fill black -annotate +23+83 'Linux is cool!' -trim
+repage logo.png

And, the following command should display the result:

$ qiv logo.png

If you want to play with multiple colors and fonts, the following will help:

$ convert -list type
$ convert -list color
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CONVERT program is not

On April 22nd, 2008 Anonymous (not verified) says:

CONVERT program is not installed in all distros !

program used

On April 21st, 2008 Micah Bucy (not verified) says:

It may be important to note that the program used is ImageMagick or its replacement, GraphicsMagick, as not all distros have this built in.

Interesting

On April 21st, 2008 Daniel (not verified) says:

This is cool. I've never really thought about graphics on the command line..

And qiv is *very* fast.

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