Dictionary Card Type
This card design was created by CollinHeist, and was inspired by the text annotations in this video by Any Austin.
Cards of this design are intended to resemble a dictionary definition - and so most extras resolve around manipulating the "word" (series name), "label" (title), and "definition" (Episode description).
Labeled Card Elements
Background
The background element is the rectangle which is positioned behind the text elements.
Background Color
The color of the background box can be adjusted with the Background Color extra.
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Rounding Radius
The roundness of the background rectangle can be adjusted with the Background Rounding Radius extra. The higher the radius/value, the more round the edges. A value of 0 will result in square corners.
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Definition Text
Color
The color of the defintion text can be adjusted with the Definition Color extra. If unspecified, this defaults to matching the color of the title text.
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Italicize Toggle
The definition text is italicized by default. This can be turned off by setting
Italicize Definition Toggle to False.
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Line Limits
The definition text will be dynamically split into multiple lines in order to fit the width of the rectangle. The maximum number of lines of displayed text can be adjusted with the Definition Line Limit extra.
If the number of lines is longer than this limit then the definition text will
be truncated and [...] will be added to the end.
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Quotes
By default, quotes are added around the definition text. This can be disabled by
setting the Quote Definition Toggle extra to False.
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Size
The size of the definition text can be adjusted with the Definition Font Size
extra. Like all font sizes, values greater than 1.0 will increase the
size of the text, and values less than 1.0 will decrease it.
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Text
The text itself can be adjusted with the Defintion Text extra.
Automatically Pull Episode Descriptions
If left as the default (or any Format String
which includes the variable {episode_description}, e.g.
{episode_description.lower()}), then TCM will automatically search
TMDb for an Episode
description/overview.
This can be disabled by either setting this Extra to the text you wish to
display or disabling the text altogether by specifying "".
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Position
The overall position of the background and all text elements can be adjusted
with the Position extra. This needs to be formatted like +x+y, where the x
and y values are how far from the bottom left corner of the image. Technically
you can specify negative x or y values (i.e. -100-100), but this will
partially obscure the content.
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Separator Character
The separator character is used to join the title and season/episode text. This
can be adjusted with the Separator Character extra. To remove this character
completely, specify "".
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Word Text
Color
The color of the word text can be adjusted with the Word Text Color extra. If unspecified, this color defaults to matching the color of the title text.
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Shadow
Color
The color of the word text's drop shadow can be changed with the Shadow Color extra.
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Definition
The "definition" of the word text's drop shadow can be changed with the Shadow
Definition extra. This is an ImageMagick Shadow
Definition. See
the tip tooltip for more information. The default shadow is 95x2+7+7.
Shadow Customization
ImageMagick defines shows in the format of:
For example, 95x2+7+7, 50x5+0+0, and 80x4+0-10 are all valid shadow
definitions.
This can be interpreted like so (using the default shadow, for example): the shadow has 95% opacity, has a sigma/blurriness value of 2, and is positioned 7 pixels below, and 7 pixels to the right of the base text.
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Size
The size of the definition text can be adjusted with the Word Text Font Size
extra. Like all font sizes, values greater than 1.0 will increase the
size of the text, and values less than 1.0 will decrease it.
Be aware that decreasing the size of the word text may result in truncating more of the definition text.
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Text
The text used in the "word" position itself can be adjusted with the Word Text
extra. This field supports Format Strings, and the
default value ({series_name.lower()}) will add the series name in lowercase
text.
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Mask Images
This card also natively supports mask images. Like all mask images, TCM will automatically search for alongside the input Source Image in the Series' source directory, and apply this atop all other Card effects.
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