# Perspective: Can font size be scaled according to size of coordinate container?

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**Category:** Ignition\
**Tags:** ignition80, perspective\
**Created:** [October 20, 2020, 6:30am UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/perspective-can-font-size-be-scaled-according-to-size-of-coordinate-container/39825 "2020-10-20T06:30:02Z")\
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**Author:** ![dkylep](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/6de8d8/32.png) [@dkylep](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/dkylep)\
**Post date:** [November 5, 2020, 12:42am UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/perspective-can-font-size-be-scaled-according-to-size-of-coordinate-container/39825/3 "2020-11-05T00:42:32Z")

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May not be ideal but I've put some svg text on some of my views.  
Similar question asked here

> [@Text on Perspective elements doesn't shrink](http://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/text-on-perspective-elements-doesnt-shrink/35976/7):
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> Have you tried SVG text? Create a file on your computer called text.svg and edit with notepad. Add the follwing text to the file… \<svg height="20" width="80" viewBox="0 0 80 20" version="1.1" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink"\> \<text x="0" y="15" fill="blue"\>SVG Text\</text\> \</svg\> Assuming your view is a coordinate container, drag the file from your computer and drop it on a view in ignition perspective designer. When the ‘Link Image’ windows pop…

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