Text Icon - font size

I reckon the external service to display text-icon has been changed some months back and then the size of text within the icon get smaller (or tiny). Is there any chance to increase the default size of the text ?

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SKETCHwade
Participant V

@tsuji_koichi

UX > Options > Fonts > Text size

Koichi_Tsuji
Participant V

I understand it will resize all the text on the app rather than only text on text icon.

SKETCHwade
Participant V

Yeah you’re right, sorry. My bad

Aleksi
Staff

@SKETCHwade Are you meaning text with the action button?

Koichi_Tsuji
Participant V

I mean texts within text_icon

Aleksi
Staff

You mean lower button menu?

Koichi_Tsuji
Participant V

EST, three characters that’s no problem font size is large enough to read.

But the text number increase the font size is shrinking far too much.

Aleksi
Staff

Now understood

Koichi_Tsuji
Participant V

Sorry for too little words from me…

Aleksi
Staff

Printscreen helps normally a lot. No need to guess.

Koichi_Tsuji
Participant V

Quite true

Aleksi
Staff

It seems that the “padding” is almost 50%. @morgan any thoughts?

Koichi_Tsuji
Participant V

50% margin sounds little too much and killing space. Otherwise I need to buy new glass to see little characters !!

Fabian_Weller
Participant V

AppSheet is using the service https://placeholder.com/
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It’s the same as this URL:
https://via.placeholder.com/100x100?text=Hello
And you get an image like that:
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You could also write the expression
"https://via.placeholder.com/100x100?text=Hello"
and set the column type to IMAGE or THUMBNAIL.


Here are listed some other Placeholder Generator.

I really like this one:

You can play with colours, fonts and sizes and get someting like this:
https://imgplaceholder.com/100x100/efb527/c01ece?text=Hello&font-size=40&font-family=child
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https://imgplaceholder.com/400x100/33ef27/ce1e39?text=Hello&font-size=120&font-family=CaviarDreams
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If you have a text column, you can use this expression in your image column:
CONCATENATE("https://imgplaceholder.com/100x100/efb527/c01ece?text=" , [Your_Text_Column] , "&font-size=40&font-family=child")


You can also use line breaks with _br_ like:
CONCATENATE("https://imgplaceholder.com/100x100/d6c71b/2334a7?text=" , [First Name] , "_br_" , [Last Name] , "&font-size=20")
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Koichi_Tsuji
Participant V

Fantastic ! Fabian!

Thank you for sharing this . I will place my own customised placeholders using those services.

Thank you once again!