Text
Text can be added to any slides in your playlists. You can style your text and add your own font
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Text can be added to any slides in your playlists and works very similarly to Word, PowerPoint, and other cloud-based editors offering text. When you've added text, you can style font, color, line height, and much more.
Add text to a slide
- Go to Playlists
- Open your playlist and find your slide
- Click Text
When you've added text, you can move it to where you want it, resize it, change color, font, text size, add shadows and much more.
Remove text from a slide
- Go to Playlists
- Open your playlist and find your slide
- Click the text you'd like to remove
- Click Remove or hit backspace on your keyboard
Change a text
- Go to Playlists
- Open your playlist and find your slide
- Double-click the text
- Change the text
- Click outside the text area when you're done
Change how a text looks
- Go to Playlists
- Open your playlist and find your slide
- Click the text you'd like to change
- In the settings on the right, you can move the text up and down layers, change color, change font and font style, change text alignment, change font size, change font line height, add curve to text, fine-tune the position and the size, rotate the text, add a shadow to the text, and add a stroke (More knows as outline) to the text.
- Alignment – Maximize, left, center, right, top, middle, right, and lock
- Layer – Move your text up or down your layers
- Font – Pick your preferred font type.
- Font styling – Bold, Italic, Underline, color, color picker
- Alignment – Text alignment to Left, center, right, or justify
- Font size – 0 > (Choose the size of your text)
- Line Height – 0 > (Choose the height between text lines)
- Positioning – Adjust the placement of your text pixel-by-pixel
- Shadow – Add and edit shadow color, thickness, and blur
- Stroke – Choose a stroke color and thickness
- Rotate – Rotate your text
How do I add my own font?
Please check out this section – Custom Font
Can I lock the position of my digital signage text?
You can lock any object you have in your content. Locking an object ensures that the object stays where it’s supposed to be and can not be resized or removed; read more about Locking Objects.
How do I make my digital signage text bigger than 100?
The text size slider only operates from 0 to 100, but you can always use the arrow up/down or simply resize the text.
How do I match the color of my digital signage text?
In the settings, you’ll find a color-picker next to where you usually pick a solid color; click the color-picker, then the color you want. (Note that this only works within the canvas).
Can I use shortcuts to add text?
Yes, SHIFT+T will add a new text section in your canvas. Find more shortcuts here.
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