# Kibana Maps- Configure Label Text so it is legible **URL:** \ **Category:** Kibana\ **Tags:** maps\ **Created:** [October 13, 2020, 10:38pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-maps-configure-label-text-so-it-is-legible/251973 "2020-10-13T22:38:11Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![PeterC](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/peterc/32/4222_2.png) [@PeterC](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/PeterC)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2020, 10:38pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-maps-configure-label-text-so-it-is-legible/251973/1 "2020-10-13T22:38:12Z")
Hi there using Kibana 17.9.2 and setting up a Maps widget. All great.. u,nti,l, ,yo,u, setup a label,., Totally illegible Have played with colors and pixel sizing to no avail., Is there a way to set the font/and size for teh lable that I have missed? This is a screen shot.... so you can see what I mean. Many thanks in advance ![Screenshot from 2020-10-13 23-31-46](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/9/3/936efb3345d6c926709b048355c9db7d705904ff.png) ---
**Author:** ![jsanz](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/jsanz/32/53734_2.png) [@jsanz](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/jsanz)\ **Post date:** [October 14, 2020, 9:09am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-maps-configure-label-text-so-it-is-legible/251973/2 "2020-10-14T09:09:03Z")
Hi, the problem is that you have many geometries overlapping and currently Elastic Maps does not prevent labels to overlap or allow to choose between fonts. You can change the size of your labels but that won't help. It would work better if you use the cluster layer type so your points are aggregated, then you can label the count or the most frequent label using the `Top Terms` metric. Another option would be to duplicate your layer and only use labels for a certain subset of your data, but that will depend greatly on your use case. ---
**Author:** ![PeterC](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/peterc/32/4222_2.png) [@PeterC](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/PeterC)\ **Post date:** [October 14, 2020, 4:51pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-maps-configure-label-text-so-it-is-legible/251973/3 "2020-10-14T16:51:12Z")
Thanks Jorge. That kindda works in one way.. amd will help. However, I am putting a system toigether which measures sensors on devices.... and I was hoping to use the label to state the location name of the device. The Big Picture will be upwards of 10k devices, and 33 Bn docs pa... so it wull be a 'tad busy' on the map, and allowing users to zero in to what they wanted would have been useful. This will do to get the point across though.. Will, raise an issue in git at teh weekend... you never know..., even an 'Alias' type field with its own formatting would be useful. ---
**Author:** ![jsanz](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/jsanz/32/53734_2.png) [@jsanz](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/jsanz)\ **Post date:** [October 14, 2020, 6:38pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-maps-configure-label-text-so-it-is-legible/251973/4 "2020-10-14T18:38:45Z")
It would be great to have your feedback and use case on github, please feel free to open a feature request there 👍 ---
**Author:** ![Nathan\_Reese](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/nathan_reese/32/84829_2.png) [@Nathan\_Reese](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Nathan_Reese)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2020, 1:00pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-maps-configure-label-text-so-it-is-legible/251973/5 "2020-10-18T13:00:44Z")
You could also try using [top hits](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/kibana/current/maps-top-hits-aggregation.html) to only display the label for the most recent data point for an entity. ---
**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2020, 1:00pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-maps-configure-label-text-so-it-is-legible/251973/6 "2020-11-15T13:00:49Z")
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