A small LaTeX script to get an X out of Y rating using colored stars. Requires the tikz package

stars-rating.tex

% Example of x-out of-y rating using stars
% http://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/11390/drawing-stars-similar-with-tikz

\documentclass{minimal}
\usepackage{tikz}
\usetikzlibrary{shapes.geometric}

\newcommand\score[2]{
\pgfmathsetmacro\pgfxa{#1+1}
\tikzstyle{scorestars}=[star, star points=5, star point ratio=2.25, draw, inner sep=1.3pt, anchor=outer point 3]
  \begin{tikzpicture}[baseline]
    \foreach \i in {1,...,#2} {
    \pgfmathparse{(\i<=#1?"red":"black")}
    \edef\starcolor{\pgfmathresult}
    \draw (\i*1.75ex,0) node[name=star\i,scorestars,fill=\starcolor]  {};
   }
  \end{tikzpicture}
}

\newcommand\customscore[4]{
\pgfmathsetmacro\pgfxa{#1+1}
\tikzstyle{scorestars}=[star, star points=5, star point ratio=2.25, draw, inner sep=1.3pt, anchor=outer point 3]
  \begin{tikzpicture}[baseline]
    \foreach \i in {1,...,#2} {
    \pgfmathparse{(\i<=#1?"#3":"#4")}
    \edef\starcolor{\pgfmathresult}
    \draw (\i*1.75ex,0) node[name=star\i,scorestars,fill=\starcolor]  {};
   }
  \end{tikzpicture}
}

\begin{document}

\score{0}{5} 0 out of 5

\score{1}{5} 1 out of 5

\score{2}{5} 2 out of 5

\score{3}{5} 3 out of 5

\score{4}{5} 4 out of 5

\score{5}{5} 5 out of 5

\score{0}{3} 0 out of 3

\score{1}{3} 1 out of 3

\score{2}{3} 2 out of 3

\score{3}{3} 3 out of 3

\customscore{2}{3}{blue}{black}

\customscore{2}{3}{orange}{black}

\customscore{2}{3}{yellow}{gray}

\customscore{2}{3}{white}{black}

Rating: \customscore{2}{3}{black}{white} 2 out of 3

Raaaaaating: \customscore{2}{3}{black}{white} 2 out of 3

Raaaaaaaaaaaating: \customscore{2}{3}{black}{white} 2 out of 3

\end{document}