CardKit

Version 1.1.0

2016 Chris Hutchinson for The Times and Sunday Times

CardKit is flexible, SVG image / card creation tool, with simple configuration options, which is easy to extend.

CardKit is aimed at newsrooms, however has many potential uses that extend beyond that:

• Coupon and offer images
• Templated asset generation
• Video preview images (e.g. 16:9)
• Educational resources
• Marketing and promotion
• Personal branding

Twitter

Follow @CardKit on Twitter for the latest news, updates and tutorials.

Project origins

You can find out more about the origins of CardKit here.

Roadmap

See ROADMAP.md.

Setup, configuration and deployment

See the CardKit Wiki for guides on how to build with CardKit

Push to gh-pages

If you want to use GitHub Pages to host your build of CardKit, follow this to push your /dist folder: https://gist.github.com/cobyism/4730490

Version history

1.1.0 (February 22, 2016)

• Add support for images to be editable via a drop down, as well as through file upload
• Allow dragging to be locked to a single direction through configuration
• Allow themes and sizes to have a default set
• Enable element attaching on the Y-axis, so that elements can be attached to elements above them, and move as they expand
• Add a configuration options to add a bounding-box when dragging elements, to give an understanding of their size
• Add support for variable line height, defined in the configuration object

1.0.0

• Initial release