Hi, As an extension of this discussion https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/#inbox/QgrcJHsNlRfcqCPHBTrnSFbJKjGPwjbJnLL?... (thanks to Wolfgang), I used the MetaFun interface with lmt_text [] ; I managed to pass the text and color parameters while I did not succeed using textext (). My problem is the size of the letters which is too small. Thank you. Fabrice \usecolors[xwi] \definecolor [prune] [r=1.29,g=.20,b=.83] \starttext \startMPcode vardef card(expr s, c) = image( draw fullsquare xyscaled (2cm,4cm); draw fullsquare xyscaled (1.8cm,3.8cm) withcolor \MPcolor{violet}; draw lmt_text[ text = s, color = c, style = "bold", ] ) enddef; draw card("A",red) rotatedaround((1cm,2cm),5); draw card("L",green) rotatedaround((1cm,2cm),-5) shifted(3.5cm,0); draw card("E",blue) rotatedaround((1cm,2cm),5) shifted(6cm,0); draw card("A","prune") rotatedaround((1cm,2cm),-5) shifted(9cm,0); \stopMPcode \stoptext