Customized items : how to fit them vertically?

Question

I tried to customize some items and the customized items are, of course, aligned with the line. But, in the case where, for instance, I use a circled number, I want to make the item move a little bit down so the number still be aligned with the line :

\documentclass[12pt,a4paper]{letter}
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
\usepackage{enumitem}
\usepackage{pifont}
\begin{document}
\begin{enumerate}
\item[{\Large \ding{182}}] Toto
\end{enumerate}
\end{document}

I failed to find a command making this possible, is it possible to do so, or do you see a better way to achieve this purpose ?

Answer 1

You can easily obtain what you want with the circledsteps package, which relies on tikz:

\documentclass[12pt, a4paper]{letter}
\usepackage{enumitem}
\usepackage[svgnames]{xcolor}
\usepackage{circledsteps}
\begin{document}
\begin{enumerate}[label={\Circled[fill color=SlateBlue, outer color=SlateBlue, inner color=Coral]{\arabic*}}, font=\large\bfseries]
\item Toto
\end{enumerate}
\end{document} 

Answer 2

You can lower the glyphs:

\documentclass[12pt,a4paper]{article}
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
\usepackage{enumitem}
\usepackage{pifont}
\newenvironment{dingenumerate}
 {\begin{enumerate}[label=\largeding,ref=\arabic]}
 {\end{enumerate}}
\newcommand{\largeding}[1]{%
  \raisebox{-0.4ex}{\Large\ding{\numexpr181+\value{#1}}}%
}
\begin{document}
\begin{dingenumerate}
\item Toto
\item Toto
\end{dingenumerate}
\end{document}