Datasheet

Here's what it looks like on a monochrome display:

Drawing Shapes and Text with Pillow

In the next example, we'll take a look at drawing shapes and text. This is very similar to the displayio example, but it

uses Pillow instead. Go ahead and copy it onto your Raspberry Pi and save it as epd_pillow_demo.py. Here's the code

for that.

"""

ePaper Display Shapes and Text demo using the Pillow Library.

Written by Melissa LeBlanc-Williams for Adafruit Industries

"""

import digitalio

import busio

import board

from PIL import Image, ImageDraw, ImageFont

from adafruit_epd.il0373 import Adafruit_IL0373

from adafruit_epd.il91874 import Adafruit_IL91874 # pylint: disable=unused-import

from adafruit_epd.il0398 import Adafruit_IL0398 # pylint: disable=unused-import

from adafruit_epd.ssd1608 import Adafruit_SSD1608 # pylint: disable=unused-import

from adafruit_epd.ssd1675 import Adafruit_SSD1675 # pylint: disable=unused-import

# First define some color constants

WHITE = (0xFF, 0xFF, 0xFF)

BLACK = (0x00, 0x00, 0x00)

RED = (0xFF, 0x00, 0x00)

# Next define some constants to allow easy resizing of shapes and colors

BORDER = 20

FONTSIZE = 24

BACKGROUND_COLOR = BLACK

FOREGROUND_COLOR = WHITE