I want to add images to text

Hi, I imagine I need to create a custom font to achieve my goal here.

Essentially I want to have a text that supports images for a combat log. For example I might want to write:

“Bob takes 4 [Fire Image] damage.”
(with [Fire Image] being a small image of fire)

I assume there’s no obvious way to do this beyond creating a custom font and replacing unused characters with the desired images.

Ideally I was hoping to find a free font creator that can use windows fonts as a base and allow you to replace specific characters, but I’m not having much luck finding such a tool.

If this is the right track, does anyone know a likely application for accomplishing my goal, or if this could be achieved some other way I’d be glad to hear that too.

Thanks

Use Textmesh Pro, it’s free on asset store.