ImageMagick-powered email image generation

Last modified Jun 16 2025.

This is a quick post to show off the email address image shown on the contact page and how I threw it together.

I wanted to list my email address on my website, but putting it in plaintext can give those LLM scrapers and bots access to it easier. So, I generated an image with ImageMagick to display it.

After cross-referencing some documentation on how to handle text and warp the image, I figured out how to do what I wanted. I decided to put it in my website’s Makefile to make it easier to execute.

…That’s pretty much it. Here’s the code, though:

magick -background transparent -fill "#eeff11" -font "Iosevka" -size 220x60 \
    -gravity center label:"mail@example.net" -wave -15x150 ./static/img/text.png

Thanks for reading this quick one. Check in later!

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