Text: fonts, sizes and fitting

Text is the part of a template you'll change most, and the part most likely to look wrong after you change it. This is how the controls behave.

Editing the words

In Basic mode, type into the slot's box in the Edit tab.

In Advanced, either edit the Content box in the layer's inspector, or double-click the text on the canvas and type directly on it. When you're typing on the canvas:

The Type section

Select a text layer in Advanced mode and the Type section holds the typography:

• Font — twenty families, the same list everywhere in the editor.
• Size in pixels, and weight beside it.
• Align — left, center, right — and the vertical alignment inside the box: top,

middle or bottom.

• Spacing — line height (how far apart the lines sit) and letter spacing (how far

apart the letters sit). Negative letter spacing tightens a headline; a little goes a long way.

• Case — Aa leaves your typing alone, AA forces capitals, aa forces lowercase.

This is display only, so you can switch back without retyping.

• Style — italic, on the families that have a real italic.

Color, outline, the box behind the text and its shadow are separate sections: Fill for the letters' color and opacity, Stroke for an outline, Background for a solid box behind the text with its own padding and corner radius — that's the fix for text over a busy photo — and Shadow for a drop shadow.

Reusing a style

Three buttons under the Type section save you doing all of that twice:

• Save style keeps this layer's whole treatment — font, size, color, outline,

background, shadow — as a named preset. It then shows up under My Presets when you add text, in this project and every one after.

• Load style applies a saved preset to the selected layer.
• Match all text to this pushes this layer's styling onto every other text layer,

which is the quickest way to fix a slide where one caption ended up in the wrong font.

Auto boxes and fixed boxes

Every text layer has a box. It's in one of two states, and knowing which explains most surprises:

• Auto — the box hugs the text. Change the words and the box resizes.
• Fixed — the box stays the size you made it, and the text wraps inside it.

Fit box to text, in the Type section, shrinks the box tight to the letters and puts it back into auto. Dragging any resize handle switches it to fixed, so a box you fitted and then nudged is fixed again.

What the handles do

Dragging a text layer's handles is not like dragging a photo's:

• Corner handles scale the type. The font size changes, and the letter spacing, outline

width, background padding and shadow scale with it, so the whole treatment stays in proportion. This is the handle you want when a headline is nearly right but too big.

• Side handles set the wrap width. The box gets narrower or wider, the text re-wraps,

and the height follows the new number of lines.

• Top and bottom handles set the height and nothing else. The text doesn't re-wrap or

re-fit, which is the one way to make a box smaller than the text inside it.

Text spilling out of its box

There's no automatic shrink-to-fit, so text that's too big for its box draws past the bottom rather than being cut off or scaled down. If a headline is hanging out of its box, one of these fixes it:

1. Fit box to text — grows the box to the words. Best when the layout has room.
2. Drag a corner handle inwards — makes the type smaller and keeps the treatment

proportional. Best when the box has to stay put.

1. Shorten the line. Three words that fit beat six that don't, and on a feed post at

phone size nobody reads the sixth anyway.

Your fonts and colors

Fonts and colors from your Brand Kit are one tap away in the editor's Brand Kit tab — quicker and more consistent than setting them per layer.