diff --git a/package.json b/package.json
index ed2aa43..c1bf35a 100644
--- a/package.json
+++ b/package.json
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 {
   "name": "text-cache",
-  "version": "4.0.0",
+  "version": "4.1.0",
   "description": "Internal module - vectorized text pooling for gl-vis",
   "main": "textcache.js",
   "directories": {
diff --git a/textcache.js b/textcache.js
index 9514d9b..484e98f 100644
--- a/textcache.js
+++ b/textcache.js
@@ -29,7 +29,8 @@ function unwrap(mesh) {
   }
 }
 
-function textGet(font, text) {
+function textGet(font, text, opts) {
+  var opts = opts || {}
   var fontcache = __TEXT_CACHE[font]
    if(!fontcache) {
      fontcache = __TEXT_CACHE[font] = {
@@ -45,7 +46,7 @@ function textGet(font, text) {
        mesh = fontcache[text] = unwrap(vectorizeText(text, {
          triangles:     true,
          font:          font,
-         textAlign:     'left',
+         textAlign:     opts.textAlign || 'left',
          textBaseline:  'alphabetic'
        }))
      } else {