How to put figures inside text?

Question

I want to put figures (controller button icons) beside text, for a game manual, like this image:

source: http://www.zeldacapital.com/manual/ootmanual.pdf page 17

Answer 1

If you have the figure, you can use \includegraphics[scale=0.1]{*filename*} of graphicxpackage directly in the text (not in an environment like center or figure). You can use the scale factor to fit the figure in the text.

Answer 2

Similar to @Gonazalo Medina:

\documentclass[letterpaper]{article}
\usepackage{tikz}
\newcommand*\circled[1]{\tikz[baseline=(char.base)]{
  \node[shape=circle,fill=blue!80,inner sep=2pt,text=white] (char) {\bfseries\sffamily #1};}}
\begin{document}
text on the left \circled{A}  text on the right
\end{document}

This yields:

Answer 3

Using TikZ:

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{tikz}

\begin{document}

Press the \tikz[baseline=-1.3ex]\node[circle,fill=blue!80,inner sep=1pt] (O) {\LARGE\bfseries\sffamily\textcolor{white}{A}}; Button

\end{document}