I’m trying to make a trademark R symbol superscript through selecting the symbol and clicking Text → Baseline → Superscript, however, it reverts back to looking like a simple text after I remove focus elsewhere. I tried doing the same thing with the same text style outside of a symbol component and it worked. How would you recommend solving this?
Hi Derek,
The superscript is lost because the text layer is inside a symbol and the text will inherit the style and properties of the symbol source. Text inside symbols supports changes (overrides) of color, font weight, alignment and some decorations like underlining. Any others will be lost when you exit edit mode.
However, there’s a way to get it working. You’ll need to use a font that has native support for the ® character. You can tell if your font supports it by pasting the character and seeing if the superscipt baseline is automatically applied.
If it is, you’ll be able to use the ® or other superscript characters in symbols, without editing the baseline separately.
Here’s a quick demo, I hope it helps:
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Thanks for the reply. We are using SF Pro Text and Roboto. I would think both of those support the ® character natively, but it’s not applying superscript automatically, I have to do it through text>baseline. I’ll keep messing with it. Thanks again.
Hi Derek,
Roboto doesn’t have native support for the character, but SF Pro Text does. Here’s a screenshot and also a sample file. Let me know if this helps.
