Loading font from URL to Pillow

Question

Is there a way to load a font with Pillow library directly from url, preferably into Google Colab? I tried something like

from PIL import Image, ImageDraw, ImageFont ImageFont.truetype("https://github.com/googlefonts/roboto/blob/master/src/hinted/Roboto-Regular.ttf?raw=true", 15)

Yet I get an error of OSError: cannot open resource. I tried with Google Fonts too, but to no avail.

Answer 1

Try it like this:

import requests
from io import BytesIO

req = requests.get("https://github.com/googlefonts/roboto/blob/master/src/hinted/Roboto-Regular.ttf?raw=true")

font = ImageFont.truetype(BytesIO(req.content), 72)