Generate an image using TTF font with PIL (pillow)

image_using_font.py

from PIL import Image, ImageFont, ImageDraw

FONT_SIZE = 40
MAX_PADDING = 4

font_path = "~/Downloads/Roboto.ttf"
font_object = ImageFont.truetype(font_path, FONT_SIZE) # Font has to be a .ttf file
word = "hello" 

fg = "#000000"  # black foreground
bg = "#FFFFFF"  # white background

text_width, text_height = font_object.getsize(word)
image = Image.new('RGBA', (text_width + MAX_PADDING*2, text_height + MAX_PADDING*2), color=bg)
draw_pad = ImageDraw.Draw(image)

draw_pad.text((MAX_PADDING, MAX_PADDING-6), word, font=font_object, fill=fg)

file_name = "output.png"

# image = image.convert("L") # Use this if you want to binarize image
image.save(file_name)