Python Imaging Library - Text rendering

Question

I\'m trying to render some text using PIL, but the result that comes out is, frankly, crap.

For example, here\'s some text I wrote in Photoshop:

Answer 1

In python3 there is an option for aliased fonts. I couldn't find this answer anywhere, hopefully it helps someone like me who found this question on google and had to dig a long time to find the answer.

draw = ImageDraw.Draw(img)
        draw.fontmode = "L"

Mentioned in the docs here