Design what's rendered for `text` components in `dashboard-thumbnail`

A thumbnail is a typically small representation of a bag of visual components.

For plot component, the current design involves the elimination of various annotations and padding, to maximize panel space for data ink. Dashboards have less graphical components eg. text. Theyr’e currently bypassed by https://github.com/plotly/image-exporter/pull/33 but future options include:

1. Leave it as with https://github.com/plotly/image-exporter/pull/33 ie. skip text panels. The benefit is that we’re not spending one of the available 4 rectangles for content that doesn’t convey much in typical thumbnail size. It’s expected that plot renders are better at making the user recall what the dashboard is about than a text fragment, and the dashboard already has a text description (title text).
2. Add some icon symbolizing text, e.g. a stylized letter “A”, or “¶” or the text editor symbol for a multirow text paragraph or page such as https://www.iconexperience.com/_img/i_collection_png/512x512/plain/text_align_left.png - benefit is that the presence of text will be conveyed (if it’s among the first 4 plot components), and fairly easy to implement, the drawback is that it’s wasteful esp. if the thumbnail is unusually large
3. Add actual text: the text would be removed of formatting (or not?) and a font size would be chosen (10…16px), perhaps configurable, that’s probably readable; then text would be rendered with minimal margins and row pitch to make a meaningful amount fit - a real constraint if it’s indeed a thumbnail size.

Please vote, add, remove or expand in comments.

[jackparmer]

It would be nice to see some options of [1] and [2] using https://plot.ly/dashboard/jackp:17887/present

A few more paragraph icon options for [2]: https://thenounproject.com/search/?q=paragraph

[etpinard]

Closing.