Built internally for STV News, it’s a very simple canvas-based image generator for people who aren’t technical and aren’t designers.
It plugs straight into the publishing workflow. Pick a published story and its headline, standfirst and photo are pulled in from the API, and the image is generated on the fly, ready to post almost instantly.
Because we own the design and control the generation, every image comes out right. Tight guardrails do the heavy lifting, and a handful of tiny controls, like headline size and photo framing, let you get it just right without overthinking it. No design tools, no templates to wrestle with. It makes the whole process much more efficient.
Here’s an unbranded version running in your browser, with the same layout rules, text fitting and controls, and some dummy stories: