Generating a font/size/colour preview.

[RedTen]

I'm after a simple (preferably off the shelf) solution to generating a preview image after a user has chosen their font,size and colour.

It's for a display/banner sales type website using Wordpress/WooCommerce. It's certainly not large enough to warrant investing £££'s in it.

I've tried to Google for Wordpress extensions etc but most results are referring to adding additional fonts to the site.

So to clarify, a nice simple UI where they type their text - choose font/size/colour and have it generate a quick preview.

Any ideas?

 

[GravyMonster]

Assuming you're using PHP, you can do something like this.

Note though that any font that's used will need to be installed on the server, and it will be relatively slow - especially under high load.

 

[hellodave]

Spunkey is right, I'd use imagettftext to make the actual banner, but you could make a preview with javascript.
This kind of thing -

http://jsfiddle.net/hellodave/2rQcD/1/

I've only used a handful of fonts there, but you could use Google fonts -

https://www.google.com/fonts

They are all available for download as ttf and free to use.