How can I align some text with a logo?

Question

I am trying to right-align some text with a logo, i.e. I would like to place some text to the left of a logo, and centre this text vertically with respect to the logo.

I’ve attached a pdf to be more clear about what I’m trying to do.

I would like to place the text “Faculty of Science” to the left of the black “logo” in the pdf above. In this example, the blue rectangular border is 1cm from the edge of the page, and the 2.5cm wide square logo is 1.25mm from the blue rectangular border.

I think textpos is the solution to what I’m trying to do, and I came up with the code below.

\documentclass{article}

% ...

\usepackage[absolute]{textpos}
\setlength{\TPHorizModule}{1mm}
\setlength{\TPVertModule}{\TPHorizModule}
\textblockorigin{0mm}{0mm} % start everything at the top-left corner

\begin{document}

% ...

\begin{textblock}{100}[0,0](120, 23.75)

\large \textit{\textbf{Faculty of Science}}

\end{textblock}

% ...

\end{document}

However, I would like something that works whatever the text I wish to place (i.e the right most letter of the last word should always be at the same fixed distance from the logo, say 1cm, and should also be vertically centered with respect to the logo). Here, every time I change the text or its style, I have to fiddle around with the coordinates until I get something that looks right.

Any ideas?

Answer 1

You can use minipages for this

Note that the minipage environment takes a mandatory <width> argument, and an optional position argument. I've used [c] to mean centred in the below.

I've used an empty box\mbox{} so that the \hfill has something to push up against.

Adjust the widths as necessary, and don't forget to remove the demo option from the graphicx package.

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage[showframe=true]{geometry}
\usepackage[demo]{graphicx}

\begin{document}

\mbox{}\hfill
\begin{minipage}[c]{4cm}
Faculty of science
\end{minipage}%
\hspace{1cm} % your specified distance
\begin{minipage}{4cm}
  \includegraphics[width=\textwidth]{yourimagename}
\end{minipage}

\mbox{}\hfill
\begin{minipage}[c]{4cm}
Faculty of science
Faculty of science
Faculty of science
Faculty of science
Faculty of science
\end{minipage}% 
\hspace{1cm} % your specified distance
\begin{minipage}{4cm}
  \includegraphics[width=\textwidth]{yourimagename}
\end{minipage}
\end{document}

Note the % at the end of the first minipages to avoid extra white space that would otherwise be inserted.

Answer 2

Another option is to use coffinfs from the xcoffins package:

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage[margin=1cm,showframe=true]{geometry}
\usepackage[demo]{graphicx}% just for the example
\usepackage{xcoffins}
\usepackage{lipsum}% just to generate some text for the example

\newlength\logosz
\setlength\logosz{2.5cm}
\newlength\logosep
\setlength\logosep{1.25mm}

\begin{document}

% coffins allocation
\NewCoffin \Result
\NewCoffin \Institution
\NewCoffin \Logo

% fill the coffins
\SetHorizontalCoffin \Result{}
\SetVerticalCoffin \Institution{7cm} {\noindent\raggedleft Faculty of Science}
\SetVerticalCoffin \Logo{2.5cm} {\vspace*{\logosep}\noindent\includegraphics[width=\logosz,height=\logosz]{logo}}

% Join the coffins
\JoinCoffins \Result \Logo(\textwidth-\logosz-\logosep,10pt)
\JoinCoffins \Result[\Logo-vc,\Logo-l] \Institution [vc,r](-1cm,0pt)

% Typeset \Result
\noindent\TypesetCoffin \Result

\lipsum[1-4]

\end{document}

Adding more text to the \Institution coffin still preserves the vertical alignment and the 1cm separation from the \Logo coffin:

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage[margin=1cm,showframe=true]{geometry}
\usepackage[demo]{graphicx}
\usepackage{xcoffins}
\usepackage{lipsum}

\newlength\logosz
\setlength\logosz{2.5cm}
\newlength\logosep
\setlength\logosep{1.25mm}

\begin{document}

% coffins allocation
\NewCoffin \Result
\NewCoffin \Institution
\NewCoffin \Logo

% fill the coffins
\SetHorizontalCoffin \Result{}
\SetVerticalCoffin \Institution{7cm} {\noindent\raggedleft Faculty of Science Faculty of Science Faculty of Science Faculty of Science Faculty of Science Faculty of Science Faculty of Science}
\SetVerticalCoffin \Logo{2.5cm} {\vspace*{\logosep}\noindent\includegraphics[width=\logosz,height=\logosz]{logo}}

% Join the coffins
\JoinCoffins \Result \Logo(\textwidth-\logosz-\logosep,10pt)
\JoinCoffins \Result[\Logo-vc,\Logo-l] \Institution [vc,r](-1cm,0pt)

% Typeset \Result
\noindent\TypesetCoffin \Result

\lipsum[1-4]

\end{document}

The demo option for graphicx simply replaces actual figures with black rectangles; do not use that option in your actual document.