from PIL import Image, ImageDraw, ImageFont from io import BytesIO import textwrap def make_cover(title, author, width=600, height=800, fontname="Helvetica", fontsize=40, bgcolor=(120, 20, 20), textcolor=(255, 255, 255), wrapat=30): img = Image.new("RGBA", (width, height), bgcolor) draw = ImageDraw.Draw(img) title = textwrap.fill(title, wrapat) author = textwrap.fill(author, wrapat) font = ImageFont.truetype(font=fontname, size=fontsize) title_size = draw.textsize(title, font=font) draw.text(((width - title_size[0]) / 2, 100), title, textcolor, font=font) font = ImageFont.truetype(font=fontname, size=fontsize - 2) author_size = draw.textsize(author, font=font) draw.text(((width - author_size[0]) / 2, 100 + title_size[1] + 70), author, textcolor, font=font) draw = ImageDraw.Draw(img) output = BytesIO() img.save(output, "PNG") output.name = 'cover.png' # writing left the cursor at the end of the file, so reset it output.seek(0) return output if __name__ == '__main__': f = make_cover('Test of a Title which is quite long and will require multiple lines', 'Some Dude') with open('output.png', 'wb') as out: out.write(f.read())