Easily output an email address as a PNG image in Django

views.py

import Image
import ImageFont, ImageDraw
from django.conf import settings
from django.http import HttpResponse
from os.path import join

def emailshield(request):
    address = '[email protected]'
    # change the path below to a TTF file you want to use
    font = ImageFont.truetype(join(settings.PROJECT_ROOT, 'static', 'Vera.ttf'), 14)
    size = font.getsize(address)
    im = Image.new('RGBA', size, (0, 0, 0, 0))
    draw = ImageDraw.Draw(im)
    draw.text((0, 0), address, font=font, fill='black')
    response = HttpResponse(mimetype='image/png')
    im.save(response, "PNG")
    return response