🖋️ ComfyUI Advanced Text Overlay

Repository: scofano/ComfyUI-Advanced-TextOverlay

Forked from: munkyfoot/ComfyUI-TextOverlay

Originally inspired by: mikkel/ComfyUI-text-overlay

This module provides the most feature‑rich and precise text overlay system available for ComfyUI, including:

• Completely re‑engineered layout engine
• Pixel‑perfect multiline stroke alignment
• Opacity‑aware backgrounds and shadows
• Letter/line spacing, padding, and alignment controls
• Full animation engine (fade + directional movement)
• Batch-aware rendering with smart caching
• Full video processing node with audio‑preserving re‑mux

✨ Key Features

✔️ 1. Rebuilt Rendering Engine

• Accurate bounding boxes for multiline text
• Consistent stroke widths (even‑pixel enforcement)
• Crisp, stable text edges with alpha‑aware compositing

✔️ 2. Advanced Layout and Typography

• Letter spacing and line spacing
• Padding around the text block
• Horizontal and vertical alignment: left / center / right, top / middle / bottom
• Per‑axis offset (x_shift, y_shift)
• Automatic multiline wrapping based on image width

✔️ 3. Styling Options

• Fill + alpha
• Stroke + alpha
• Shadow + alpha + offset
• Rounded background box with padding, color, radius, and alpha

✔️ 4. Animation System

Supports:

• fade_in
• fade_out
• move_from_top
• move_from_bottom
• move_from_left
• move_from_right

With easing:

• linear
• ease_in
• ease_out
• ease_in_out

Animation Parameters:

• animation_frames
• animation_opacity_target
• pause_frames_before_start

✔️ 5. Batch-Smart Processing

• Automatically caches layout on first frame
• Maintains perfect consistency across all frames
• For animated batches: animates through first N frames, then holds the final pose

✔️ 6. Full Video Support

The Advanced Text Overlay – Video node:

• Reads a video frame‑by‑frame
• Applies the same overlay logic
• Writes a new MP4
• Automatically re‑injects the original audio track with ffmpeg
• Optional delete_original flag

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📥 Installation

Clone the repository inside your ComfyUI custom_nodes directory:

git clone https://github.com/scofano/ComfyUI-Advanced-TextOverlay

Restart ComfyUI — the nodes will appear under Advanced Text Overlay.

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🚀 Usage

Image Node: Advanced Text Overlay

Connect an image or batch → configure text parameters → render.

Video Node: Advanced Text Overlay – Video

Provide a path to a video → configure overlay → output is written to ComfyUI's output directory.

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🔧 Input Parameters

Text & Typography

Parameter	Description
text	Text to draw; supports multiline \n
all_caps	Force uppercase
font	Font name or file; auto-searches /fonts
font_size	Pixel size
letter_spacing	Per-character spacing
line_spacing	Spacing between lines

Color & Stroke

Parameter	Description
fill_color_hex	Hex fill color
fill_alpha	Opacity 0–1
stroke_enable	Toggle outline
stroke_color_hex	Hex outline color
stroke_alpha	Outline opacity
stroke_thickness	Relative thickness (scaled by font size)

Layout & Position

Parameter	Description
padding	Padding around text block
horizontal_alignment	left / center / right
vertical_alignment	top / middle / bottom
x_shift, y_shift	Pixel offsets

Background Box

Parameter	Description
bg_enable	Toggle background box
bg_padding	Padding around text block
bg_radius	Rounded corner radius
bg_color_hex	Hex color
bg_alpha	Opacity

Shadow

Parameter	Description
shadow_enable	Toggle shadow
shadow_distance	Pixel offset
shadow_color_hex	Shadow color
shadow_alpha	Opacity

Animation

Parameter	Description
animate	Enable animation
animation_kind	Fade or movement animation
animation_frames	How many frames animation lasts
animation_opacity_target	Target alpha
animation_ease	Easing curve
pause_frames_before_start	Delay before animation begins

Video-Specific Parameters

Parameter	Description
video_path	Input video
filename_prefix	Naming prefix for output
delete_original	Remove input after processing
pause_seconds_before_start	Pause duration (converted to frames)

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🧪 Output

• Image node → modified image/batch
• Video node → MP4 written to ComfyUI output directory, with audio preserved

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🧠 Credits

• Original concept by mikkel
• Fork base by munkyfoot
• Advanced reimplementation and feature expansion by scofano