How do I make pretty buttons?

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Would someone refer me to a discussion, or examples, of how to make good-looking buttons?

I search here and cannot find much information. Maybe I'm not looking the right place.

I don't know the exact look I want but would love it if there were some conversation about it and I could test a few things. Perhaps 3-d buttons? Or perhaps retaining the look of the default grey buttons--but with a different color. Anything would be of interest.

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Hi there,

You can set the colors of buttons using the BackgroundColor or TextColor properties. If you would like to set the font of a button's text, use the property FontTypeface (options: default, serif, sans serif, monospace).

For your question for 3D buttons, see this topic.

If you would like to add an icon to a button, use this link in Thunkable here.

https://community.thunkable.com/t/free-button-addon-extension/9790

You would also want to search the extensions directory Pura Vida Apps Extensions, which has many extensions related to buttons.

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if you want to avoid extension you can use an image
it make the extension look beautifull

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Yes. You can also use an emoji.

  1. Copy the emoji.

  2. In the Text property of a button, paste the emoji.

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Also, you can change the shape of a button, make the text bold or italic, and align the text using the Properties of a Button.

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Hi @boofuss60,
take a sight to https://buttonoptimizer.com
You can create buttons as .png, then include the created button as an image into AI2 buttons.
Cheers.

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Thanks everyone...this is what I needed. :grin: