My game actually not using any custom font or font icon. I only use default system font which have emojis and unicode symbols. The pause button actually not a gear⚙️ emoji but unicode symbol ⛭. Unicode symbol has consistent offset than emoji so it’s easier to center. Play▶️ or pause⏸️ (or both⏯️ would likely not fit since it’s emoji while the button shaped as circle and have double line border when hovered/activated. I apply that animated CSS border-style on all buttons in the game.
My current options to provide visual cue for my first patch:
- make it animated (require change on the plugin I use)
- add black outline, dot, or sparkle (require change on my tileset.png)
- just stack additional tile in the insert tile object (not sure if Tiled editor can automate this 🤔)
Thanks for playing and the feedback 🙌