The Verified (utf8.char(0xE000)) and Premium (utf8.char(0xE001)) symbols aren’t centred properly in text labels and such, making it look like there is a space preceding them. It is also inconsistent compared to the Robux symbol.
Visual aids using Source Sans Pro (note there aren’t any spaces in any of the lines; Robux symbol is shown for contrast):
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Expected behavior
The Verified and Premium symbols should be centred properly.
Unsure but I believe it should be centred to make it consistent with the Robux glyph and literally every emoji, but I don’t think Roblox would do it intentionally which is why I made a BR and not a feature request. Having it offset like that makes it look like there’s a space when there isn’t one, and you have to add another space after to make it not look weighted weirdly. :(
This was done intentionally so that it would display with correct kerning in buttons when placed on the right of some text. Centering wasn’t an expected usecase when the icons were created.
If there’s enough interest, we can add a second variant of each icon that has no padding though, so that it will display centered. The current icons can’t be changed because it would break existing UIs that are assuming the padding is there.
I see, I mainly was troubled by the premium one not being centred so I’ll give my usecases for a symbol without padding:
1- We give users a premium chat tag when they have premium, it looks better compact but because of the spacing at the front of the symbol we have to add another space at the end to even it out.
So instead of looking like [P][Username]: Hello
we have to space it out like [ P ][Username]: Hello
This is worsened when you learn we have custom chat tags users can purchase, some are relatively long so this, in addition to the premium symbol, in addition to another chat tag if they are ranked 1-50 on one of our global leaderboards, their name + tags gets quite long. Thus if a symbol with no padding was added, it would cut down on some of the space.
2- In a separate game, we give users overheads which can contain premium symbol, verified symbol, hammer if they’re a dev etc. The issue here is that we add the premium symbol before their name so it does sometimes get offset weirdly.
I came across this annoying detail just now and it’s irritating me.
Same context for me, I’m using it for chat tags and custom player billboard display name that has tags on it as well. I do like the idea and would like to request for the second variant of the icons to be used specifically for in-game experience, it would be great to use them without paddings so we could customize and configure the spacing according to what we need. It could also save us some time without having to upload another set of decals of each icon. I’d appreciate it if it would be realized soon, thanks.
