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Written by Foone🏳️‍⚧️ on 2024-10-20 at 23:08

it has been zero days since I started building another meme generation tool.

based on https://xkcd.com/2501/

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Written by Foone🏳️‍⚧️ on 2024-10-20 at 23:18

This image is actually an SVG that I'm intentionally exporting to a tiny JPEG to get lower quality text to match the original.

I'm using the xkcd-script font to try and match the original text as much as possible.

https://github.com/ipython/xkcd-font

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Written by Foone🏳️‍⚧️ on 2024-10-20 at 23:19

that was mainly a proof of concept. I think SVG is too limiting to do this dynamically, so I'm probably going to write something that uses embedded webfonts and a element, like the Death Generator already does.

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Written by Foone🏳️‍⚧️ on 2024-10-20 at 23:33

I also want to make it dynamically change the image size (like some Death Generators do) where it can just get taller if you type too much text into it.

That'd be fun for some examples of "experts"

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Written by Foone🏳️‍⚧️ on 2024-10-20 at 23:34

I'm also gonna have it do something I've been thinking about adding to the death generator:

Automatic alt-text generation!

It'll have a button you can press that copies some text that is the alt text for what you generated, which'll be a templated generic explanation of the comic plus whatever text you entered. That should make it easier to provide alt-text when posting these to places that want alt text

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Written by Foone🏳️‍⚧️ on 2024-10-20 at 23:34

someone REALLY needs to develop an ad-hoc standard for embedding alt-text in a PNG/JPEG, though. I'd love to have the site just hand you a file that automatically has alt text when you upload it

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Written by scy on 2024-10-20 at 23:38

@foone I've thought about this multiple times, but the thing is, alt texts for one and the same image might be hugely different based upon the context in which it is used.

I mean, sure, embedding something is probably helpful nevertheless, but it's not that simple to consider all requirements.

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Written by Foone🏳️‍⚧️ on 2024-10-20 at 23:54

@scy oh yeah.

But for a lot of images it's possible to get a good-enough alt text automatically, because a computer is generating the image from known components.

And I'd design it as a "default alt text", not as a definitive alt text. So you could leave it, edit it down to the important things, or replace it entirely. It'd just try to save some time if possible

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