Measuring Text

npx remotion add @remotion/layout-utils

import { measureText } from "@remotion/layout-utils";

const { width, height } = measureText({
  text: "Hello World",
  fontFamily: "Arial",
  fontSize: 32,
  fontWeight: "bold",
});

import { fitText } from "@remotion/layout-utils";

const { fontSize } = fitText({
  text: "Hello World",
  withinWidth: 600,
  fontFamily: "Inter",
  fontWeight: "bold",
});

return (
  <div
    style={{
      fontSize: Math.min(fontSize, 80), // Cap at 80px
      fontFamily: "Inter",
      fontWeight: "bold",
    }}
  >
    Hello World
  </div>
);

import { fillTextBox } from "@remotion/layout-utils";

const box = fillTextBox({ maxBoxWidth: 400, maxLines: 3 });

const words = ["Hello", "World", "This", "is", "a", "test"];
for (const word of words) {
  const { exceedsBox } = box.add({
    text: word + " ",
    fontFamily: "Arial",
    fontSize: 24,
  });
  if (exceedsBox) {
    // Text would overflow, handle accordingly
    break;
  }
}

import { loadFont } from "@remotion/google-fonts/Inter";

const { fontFamily, waitUntilDone } = loadFont("normal", {
  weights: ["400"],
  subsets: ["latin"],
});

waitUntilDone().then(() => {
  // Now safe to measure
  const { width } = measureText({
    text: "Hello",
    fontFamily,
    fontSize: 32,
  });
});

measureText({
  text: "Hello",
  fontFamily: "MyCustomFont",
  fontSize: 32,
  validateFontIsLoaded: true, // Throws if font not loaded
});

const fontStyle = {
  fontFamily: "Inter",
  fontSize: 32,
  fontWeight: "bold" as const,
  letterSpacing: "0.5px",
};

const { width } = measureText({
  text: "Hello",
  ...fontStyle,
});

return (
  <div style={fontStyle}>
    Hello
  </div>
);

<div style={{ outline: "2px solid red" }}>
  Text
</div>