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July 15, 2024
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Adding Icons to a text box possible?

  • July 15, 2024
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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?

Correct answer 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.

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Legend
July 15, 2024

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
Community Expert
Community Expert
July 15, 2024

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

c.pfaffenbichler
Community Expert
Community Expert
July 15, 2024

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. 

Participant
July 15, 2024

Thank you! I will look into it.

 

c.pfaffenbichler
Community Expert
Community Expert
July 15, 2024

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