school_compare/nextjs-app/app/opengraph-image.tsx

import { readFile } from 'node:fs/promises';
import { join } from 'node:path';
import { ImageResponse } from 'next/og';

/**
 * The site had no og:image at all, so every link pasted into a class WhatsApp
 * group or a Slack channel rendered as a bare grey text card — on the highest
 * intent channel this product has.
 *
 * The card is the brand's own proposition on the Sand ground, with the mark
 * and a suggestion of the illustration's rolling landscape along the bottom.
 * It states the promise rather than decorating it.
 */
export const alt = 'schoolcompare — find the school where your child will flourish';
export const size = { width: 1200, height: 630 };
export const contentType = 'image/png';

const SAND = '#F5EFE6';
const INK = '#1C2731';
const MUTED = '#5F6A75';
const TEAL = '#0F766E';
const SAGE = '#A7D7C5';
const SAGE_DEEP = '#7FC3AC';
const SAGE_PALE = '#D6EDE2';

async function font(file: string) {
  return readFile(join(process.cwd(), 'assets', file));
}

/**
 * The mark, as a data URI. Satori has no access to the public/ URL space, so
 * the artwork is read off disk and inlined. This is the same file the header
 * serves — public/brand/mark.png — so the card can never drift from the site.
 */
async function markDataUri() {
  const png = await readFile(join(process.cwd(), 'public', 'brand', 'mark.png'));
  return `data:image/png;base64,${png.toString('base64')}`;
}

export default async function OpengraphImage() {
  const [regular, bold, mark] = await Promise.all([
    font('Manrope-Regular.ttf'),
    font('Manrope-Bold.ttf'),
    markDataUri(),
  ]);

  return new ImageResponse(
    (
      <div
        style={{
          width: '100%',
          height: '100%',
          display: 'flex',
          flexDirection: 'column',
          justifyContent: 'space-between',
          background: SAND,
          padding: '58px 72px 0',
          fontFamily: 'Manrope',
          position: 'relative',
        }}
      >
        {/* Rolling hills along the bottom edge — the illustration style,
            reduced to the one gesture that survives at thumbnail size. */}
        <div style={{ position: 'absolute', left: 0, right: 0, bottom: 0, height: 210, display: 'flex' }}>
          <svg width="1200" height="210" viewBox="0 0 1200 210">
            <path d="M0 92 C 200 56 380 100 560 78 C 760 54 940 92 1200 62 L1200 210 L0 210 Z" fill={SAGE_PALE} />
            <path d="M0 132 C 230 96 420 140 620 118 C 830 94 1000 130 1200 106 L1200 210 L0 210 Z" fill={SAGE} />
            <path d="M0 176 C 260 146 470 186 690 166 C 900 146 1040 174 1200 158 L1200 210 L0 210 Z" fill={SAGE_DEEP} />
          </svg>
        </div>

        {/* Lockup */}
        <div style={{ display: 'flex', alignItems: 'center', gap: 14 }}>
          {/* eslint-disable-next-line @next/next/no-img-element */}
          <img src={mark} width={45} height={56} alt="" />
          <div style={{ display: 'flex', fontSize: 34, fontWeight: 700, letterSpacing: '-0.04em' }}>
            <span style={{ color: INK }}>school</span>
            <span style={{ color: TEAL }}>compare</span>
          </div>
        </div>

        {/* Proposition. Sized so the headline holds two lines and the subhead
            one — an orphaned word reads as an accident at this size. */}
        <div style={{ display: 'flex', flexDirection: 'column', gap: 18, paddingBottom: 236 }}>
          <div
            style={{
              display: 'flex',
              flexWrap: 'wrap',
              fontSize: 72,
              fontWeight: 700,
              letterSpacing: '-0.035em',
              lineHeight: 1.05,
              color: INK,
              maxWidth: 900,
            }}
          >
            <span style={{ marginRight: 18 }}>Find the school where</span>
            <span style={{ marginRight: 18 }}>your child will</span>
            <span style={{ color: TEAL }}>flourish.</span>
          </div>
          <div style={{ display: 'flex', fontSize: 27, color: MUTED, letterSpacing: '-0.005em' }}>
            24,000+ schools in England · SATs, GCSEs, Ofsted and admissions
          </div>
        </div>
      </div>
    ),
    {
      ...size,
      fonts: [
        { name: 'Manrope', data: regular, weight: 400, style: 'normal' },
        { name: 'Manrope', data: bold, weight: 700, style: 'normal' },
      ],
    }
  );
}