In this video I wanted to share with you something I just learned about recently
and that is this app on canva that helps you do text effects. It's called type craft and
I'm going to show you how to do it it makes stuff like this so you can do all kinds of
different text effects. I'm going to show you where to find it and how to use it and
maybe some of the limitations because I think it can be even better than it is today. Let's go!!
Thanks for joining me on this video my name is Juna with Detour Shirts in this video I'm going
to talk about something that I wish canva had a long time ago but it's good that they have it now
and that is text effects so if any of you've used canva you know that only text effects that you can
do right now is kind of warp it this way or work it up that's it you can bend it really but now
there's an app on canva that you can get to built into canva and you can do all kinds of things you
can warp it all kinds of ways I'll show you how to do it I'll show you where to find it I think
everybody has it not just canva Pro but you're gonna have to tell me because all I have is Camera
Pro so I'm going to show you on Camera Pro what it does so let's go to canva right now and I'll show
you where it is so here we are on canvacanva.com you can see I've been playing around with it
testing it out I'm going to create a new design so I can show you how it works so we're just going to
go custom size 4500 by 5400 pull it up here and the way way to find it is to go to apps so this
right here apps and scroll down and it's this one right here type craft so click on that and you can
see right away it's pretty easy how to figure out so first thing you need to know is typecraft this
is where you type in the word that you want so let's say I want to do something like California
okay and then this these are the fonts you can use so it's not every single font on canva which
I wish it was I wish it was every single font but it's pretty limited for now I'm guessing they're
gonna add more fonts because let me scroll down you can see I can scroll down and see all of them
this is the full list mostly Sans serif there's not a lot of serif in fact I don't know if there's
any serifs there's some script ones in here oh this one is a serif but no thick serifs slab
serifs I wish they were some slab serifs there's a serif there some nice coolants right here but I
mean come on we gotta do some slab Sarah for some athletic ones right so um but you can see some
italic ones which I don't know why I would want italic when you can actually make it italic anyway
um but anyway you can see I'm using that font lethal and it shows up here and then these are
the three styles for now you have none so just to fill the black fill you have uh outline and
you can see or unfilled which is just the outline and you can see the Border or they call it border
you can make a black border right and then this one is outline but filled so you can change the
color The Fill color to be like red and then the Border color to be like whatever color pink or
whatever right and then you can change the Border width too so that's that's kind of cool and this
kind of gives you a preview of what you're seeing you're gonna see over here and then you have all
these points so you can move any one of these points so I can do something funky like this
I can also move these curves each one's individual so I can go up this way and then down that way so
kind of make a funky turn like that if I want or I can do both of them up you know kind of like uh
a bow tie which is cool or it can make both of them kind of come down like this
I can do whatever I want so um one thing that I think a lot of us would do is Maybe
do something like this so I'll come out here and you know do this curve like this
all right and then maybe make this curve like that and this pull curve like this and this one
like that so you can make that kind of shape and if you like get too far down on like I
don't like this shape you can always reset it and it just goes back to normal right um whoa
in this case see I think they're still still working on it so I'm going to change the font
uh and I I guess I pulled it out too far oh
um oh there we go reset whew I thought we lost it there okay um yeah so let's do that let's do
the Border you see the outline and let's just do a simple one so you can see I'll do up like that
and up like that right and maybe bigger over here the other one and then once you're ready
and have it you can have ADD element to your design and there you go and here you
can scale it too so if you need a bigger you can you can't do anything else but turn it
so if you want to edit this again you'll have to hit edit and even if you get out of here so
let's say I went back to design I added some elements let's say I wanted to add this truck
here or whatever and colored this and then I'm like oh wait I don't want it to say California
I want it to say outdoors I can come in here hit edit and it will bring me back into typecraft so I
don't have to worry about how do I edit this you can edit it right here and say it Outdoors now
and once you see it here you can hit update and there you go Outdoors right pretty cool so
um one thing that we see a lot now is the Vintage Graphics so it's a vintage type and I wish they
had some vintage fonts in here I'll have to go and make a list and see if there is I mean we have
Bauhaus which isn't really that vintage let me do all caps let's see um vintage right
so it's I mean it's kind of vintage but it doesn't have that round roundness that
we see on some of the other ones let's see what else we got here
uh I wish there was a way to import fonts okay so whoever's whoever's built typecraft uh import
fonts or add more fonts I think is a good one and I I would love it if they also had some uh shapes
that uh like some basic shapes in here already so we could do some like curved or warp or fisheye
or any any of those Circle I mean some basic ones so we don't have to move this around all the time
if it was one that was like it's already a circle you know like this or it's already it's already uh
um curve like this so we don't have to mess around with it that would be really cool but I mean it's
something it's it's better than what we have and it's definitely um there's a lot you can do with
this so um play around with it see what fonts you want I may do another video just listing all these
fonts so you can see them on the page I may do that just because there's not too many and I think
it would be nice to see them all on screen to kind of see because it's kind of hard to see like how
good these fonts are at this small a size because this I mean there could be a good one in here but
it's just really hard to tell this one isn't I don't think this one is vintage enough let's see
I mean I guess this one's kind of vintage so we could do the you know the whole vintage
curve thing that we see a lot right so we turn this up like this and this comes up like that
you like that and then this goes up like this and we see we see this kind of thing a lot
right and then let's move this here and then we do kind of kind of that thing
with the Vintage and and then change the color so of course you can come in
here and then change it to like other colors right
maybe this one is a I don't know like an orange or something
so you can you can do those kinds of things um with this so just have fun with it play
around with it the there's a lot you can do with these um and there's there's enough fonts here
to kind of play with it so I think it's good for now but I I think it can be even better
um but yeah this just added a whole nother level of creativity on canva which I love you can start
making more more and more things with this and it's so it's a great that we have it it's better
than what we have already like I said so so there you go that's typecraft on canva I think
it's great that we have something like this uh if you've been playing with it before I don't know
how long it's been out there but if you've played with it before and there's something that I missed
let me know in the comments if there's something else that I didn't touch on that we can do with
this tool I think it's really cool I think there's lots of different things that you can do with it
and I think it can really help with T-shirt design as well as other designs if you're not doing
shirts thanks again for watching and if you want to see another video about canva I have lots of
canva videos but this is my latest one here with some of the new things uh new apps not brand new
now but there's some cool stuff that canva can do you might want to watch that one I highlight five
different things that canva can do keep creating and keep learning I'll see you on the next one