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<div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">Hi Paul,</div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><br></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">In your question you ask about how to display background shields for road numbers. I answered this question recently here:</div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><a href="https://www.mail-archive.com/qgis-user@lists.osgeo.org/msg52139.html" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.mail-archive.com/qgis-user@lists.osgeo.org/msg52139.html</a> <br></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><br></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">From Alexandre Neto's answer to the same question, the documentation page for label backgrounds is here:</div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><a href="https://docs.qgis.org/3.28/en/docs/user_manual/style_library/label_settings.html#labels-background" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://docs.qgis.org/3.28/en/docs/user_manual/style_library/label_settings.html#labels-background</a></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><br></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">-Thayer</div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div>
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On Thursday, April 13, 2023 at 03:00:37 PM EDT, qgis-user-request@lists.osgeo.org <qgis-user-request@lists.osgeo.org> wrote:
</div><div><div dir="ltr">From: Paul N <<a href="mailto:surveykshak@gmail.com" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">surveykshak@gmail.com</a>><br></div><div dir="ltr">To: <a href="mailto:qgis-user@lists.osgeo.org" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">qgis-user@lists.osgeo.org</a><br></div><div dir="ltr">Subject: [Qgis-user] To show road reference numbers like Google with<br></div><div dir="ltr"> background svg syymol.<br></div><div dir="ltr">Message-ID:<br></div><div dir="ltr"> <<a href="mailto:CAGy7cYkOYdL0X8DPB8XMf36Wd3rG9-JSbMi5aL7EZ4PfsX0NOg@mail.gmail.com" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">CAGy7cYkOYdL0X8DPB8XMf36Wd3rG9-JSbMi5aL7EZ4PfsX0NOg@mail.gmail.com</a>><br></div><div dir="ltr">Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8"<br></div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">Hi,<br></div><div dir="ltr">I want to show road reference numbers as looks in Open street map or Google<br></div><div dir="ltr">map in QGIS. NH23, SH4 etc.<br></div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">Is it possible with font marker or any other way.<br></div><div dir="ltr">I have two options, 1st to use label with background. 2nd is font marker<br></div><div dir="ltr">which I don't know?<br></div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">Is there any best way to do this?<br></div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">Regards<br></div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">Paul N<br></div><br></div>
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