tldr; Is there an easy way to increase the size of a font?
I am adding the option for customers to use emoji’s in their custom text. The problem is that in the display, the emoji takes up the entire character input area field height, which is much larger than most font sizes, making the font look small.
So you end up with a goofy preview - the emojis are way bigger than the font size:
I am able to fix this if I dramatically increase the font size. Here’s a preview where i was testing different font sizes and character alignments:
So my question is - in my basic font settings, is there a setting that would uniformly increase the font size, so that I don’t have to increase all 423 characters individually? I’m trying to save myself some manual labor.
@Setalpz I don’t work with the custom options for Amazon, but the options pictured shouldn’t affect the emojis. I suspect that they are in a different font family altogether, or are there any fields for “special characters”?
Ascenders and descenders are specific anatomy of letter shapes (like the tall part of lower case d or the low part of lowercase g).
Subscript and superscript refer to placement of special tiny text relative to main text.
Yes, the emoji’s are not part of the font, but Amazon assigns them the full height of the text customization space, so they appear larger than the font.
If you adjust the fields above, they will affect all text…I think.
Can you assign the emojis to a “superscript only” status and then adjust those settings in isolation? That would align the emojis with the upper limit of text, and then ideally you can adjust those settings for visual consistency with the text.
But since I don’t know how Amazon offers text configuration for customization, I might be suggesting things that simply aren’t possible.
The size of the font and emoji should be controlled by the size of the input display box. Our customers end up seeing text that is shorter in length than in real life on the item.
You should have an image of the item and on that image place a text box where the customized text will be. Your text box should be under CALIFORNIA which should be on a blank CALIFORNIA plate. On you second image, it appears that the image box is around and includes the word CALIFORNIA which accounts for your ability to vertically move the individual font up or down.
I changed the font’s “Units Per eM” from 1000 to 783 to match the average height of the font characters (to thus increase the character sizes to be 100%) …So now the emojis follow that size too - and it makes the Emoji’s about 43% smaller:
So it looks like I just need to make each character larger within the font. Good news is that some FontLab pros showed me how to do this globally as well as adjust the kerning.
I really didn’t expect the emoji’s to follow the EM size of the font that they are not part of.
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