{"id":21233,"date":"2020-09-20T10:35:00","date_gmt":"2020-09-20T10:35:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/how_to_overlay_text_on_image_easily_pixel_perfect_and_with_no_css_html"},"modified":"2025-05-03T15:23:39","modified_gmt":"2025-05-03T22:23:39","slug":"how_to_overlay_text_on_image_easily_pixel_perfect_and_with_no_css_html","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cloudinary.com\/blog\/how_to_overlay_text_on_image_easily_pixel_perfect_and_with_no_css_html","title":{"rendered":"Overlaying Text on Images, Pixel Perfect With No CSS Or HTML"},"content":{"rendered":"

Overlaying text on images<\/a> is a versatile and effective way in which to spotlight captions, names, copyright watermarks, and such. You can also overlay text over dynamic images (advertisement banners, coupons, greeting cards, business cards) in e-commerce-oriented emails.<\/p>\n

Our customers frequently ask about how to dynamically overlay text on images. One common approach is to do that with HTML elements, CSS, or native mobile-UI controls. Oftentimes, however, it\u2019s more efficient to overlay text on images while creating them, simplifying the process of displaying them on channels and devices later on.<\/p>\n

By leveraging Cloudinary\u2019s cloud-based media-management service, you can upload images or videos, specify text, and dynamically overlay it over them on the fly with authenticated API calls<\/a>. You can also build dynamic banners with text layers<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Dynamic Styles<\/h2>\n

Newly available from Cloudinary are dynamic URLs through which you can overlay text\u2014in a font of your choice\u2014to images in real time. You can also further customize and transform text layers for the look and feel you desire. The entire process occurs in the cloud with no need for authenticated API calls.<\/p>\n

For example, the following dynamic URL for a previously-uploaded image named sea_shell.jpg<\/code> and labeled Sea Shell<\/strong> contains the l_text:<\/code> parameter with the following attributes:<\/p>\n