/watertext

🏷 Vanilla watermarking library (ES6+rollup)

Primary LanguageJavaScriptMIT LicenseMIT

Watertext - text watermarking library

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Features

  • Zero dependencies library, works with NodeJS and in the browser.
  • 1.7kb minified (481B gzipped) version.

Quickstart

  1. Install library:
npm install --save watertext
  1. Watermark regular image with awesome text:
var el = document.getElementsByTagName('img')[0];

// Version 1: callback based (watertext.core.umd.min.js)
watertext(el.src, {text: 'Awesome cat'}, function(err, src){
  el.src = src;
});
// Version 2: promise based (watertext.umd.min.js)
watertext(el.src, {text: 'Awesome cat'})
  .then(function(url){el.src = url;});
Original image Watermarked image
orig-image watermarked-image

Versions

There are two main versions:

  1. Callback-based vanilla js core.
  2. Promise-based (via core-js polyfill) regular.

Depending on usage, there are 3 build options: CommonJS, ES6 module and UMD library. All build are handled by rollup. Backend specific versions (CommonJS and ES6 module) are not minified (~5 Kb) and browser specific UMD comes in minified version only (~1.7 Kb).

Name CommonJS ES6 module UMD
Core (Callback based) watertext.core.cjs.js watertext.core.esm.js watertext.core.umd.min.js
Regular (Promise based) watertext.cjs.js watertext.esm.js watertext.umd.min.js

Development

The library is tiny and the whole source code is in index.js file. It uses ES6 syntax with AirBnB style-guide. Make sure to eslint your code and write jsdoc for every method.

Supported Browsers
npx browserslist

Deployment

Webpack builds both regular and minified versions to dist folder. It uses rollup + bublé because they are faster than webpack + buble and result into smaller build size (~30% reduction).

yarn build

Publish new version with yarn:

yarn publish

Watermarking options

All of the parameters except text are optional. By default, the watermark is placed at the bottom of the image with 10px margin.

Name Type Default Description
text string '' Watermark text.
textWidth number undefined Width of watermark in pixels. By default watermark uses 100% of the image width if positioned at the top/bottom and 100% of hight if positioned on the left/right.
textSize number 12 Watermark text size.
textFont string 'Sans-serif' Watermark text font.
textColor string 'rgb(255, 255, 255)' Watermark text color.
backgroundColor string 'rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.4)' Watermark background color. Default is gray.
position string 'bottom' Position of watermark text, one of "top", "left", "right" or "bottom".
margin number 10 Margin from the nearest edge. Negative margin positions watermark at the opposite edge. Useful for text orientation control for "left" and "right" positioning.
dataURL Array [] Parameters of canvas.toDataURL(type, encoderOptions). Default format type is image/png. Example options: ["image/jpeg", 0.5] or ["image/webp", 0.6].

Links

Acknowledgement

  • baivong/watermark library hugely inspired this project. While there are a lot of similarities, this library does not require jQuery to watermark images.
  • brianium/watermarkjs good multi-purpose watermarking library, inspired ES6 adoption and Webpack usage.
  • Cat image is provided by pexels.