Adding Icons to a text box possible?

[Jeck386095051h54]

I am designing a sticker, where I have text consisting of one word, that is repeated several times, which follows the outline of an ellipse shape(basically rounded text). In between those words I wish to put an icon for instagram, tiktok, facebook, etc. but since they are not part of the text I have to align them manually and it looks off. Is there a more proper way of achieving this?

[c.pfaffenbichler]

I would recommend using a proper application for the task, Indesign comes to mind. 

[c.pfaffenbichler]

One can paste a graphic element into text in Indesign. 

Naturally it would make more sense to use a placed ai-file, so that all instances update if editing is necessary. 

[Jeck386095051h54]

Thank you! I will look into it.

[amber_9513]

Yes, you can achieve this by using a combination of text and image layers. Instead of manually aligning the icons, create a path for the text (ellipse shape), then place the icons as separate image objects along the path. Many design tools, like Adobe Illustrator or Photoshop, allow you to align images along a path, ensuring proper positioning without manual adjustment.

[Lumigraphics]

There are three reasonable ways to do this.

1. Continue manually aligning your elements. The best thing about Photoshop is that you can individually edit every single pixel in your document.

2. Convert the graphic into a glyph and create a font that uses that glyph. This would require a third-party font editor but would be flexible and should work the way you want.

3. Use a page layout or design application like InDesign, which has this capability.

There are some esoteric ways such as hand-editing PostScript but that's probably not very practical.

[c.pfaffenbichler]

I think recently someone posted links to online-font-(or glyph)-creation resources, but I can’t remember in which thread that was. 

[Jeck386095051h54]

I think fontforge will suffice in editing a certain font, as for the convertion I'll need to look that up. Thank you for the ideas!