Hey everyone, I'm Marina from Yes to Tech, and welcome back to my channel. Wondering
how to create an outline around your text in Canva? In this Canva tutorial, you’ll
learn how to create a border around your text in Canva.
By the end of this video, you’ll know exactly how to outline text in Canva to take your
designs to the next level. If you're excited about this video, make sure you like this
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First off, if you don’t have a Canva account yet, just click on the link in the description
box below to sign up for free. Once you’ve logged in to your Canva account, use the search
bar, or the suggested designs on your Canva homepage, to locate the design type which
you’d like to include text with an outline around it, such as an Instagram post. Once
that option populates, click on it.
There are two ways that you can follow to create an outline around your text in Canva.
The first way is by creating two versions of your text and layering them. To do so,
click on ‘text’ from the left-hand side panel, and then on ‘add a heading’.
Type what you wish in the text box, and change the font, font size and text color to the
options of your choice. Now select the text box, click on the three little dots from the
white menu up top, and then on duplicate.
Change the text color of this second text box to another color of your choice, such
as yellow, and use the arrows on your keyboard to move this text box up or down and to either
side to easily create an outline around your text.
If you wish the second colored text you added to be the outline color rather than the main
text one, click on the three little dots from the white menu up top, ‘position’, and
then on ‘backward’. Just as before, use the arrows on your keyboard to move this text
box up or down and to either side to easily create an outline around your text.
The second way to outline text in Canva is by adding a text effect. Let’s first click
on ‘add page’ from the top right of this design to start fresh with a blank Canva design.
To do so, just as before, click on ‘text’ from the left-hand side panel, and then on
‘add a heading’.
Type what you wish in the text box, and change the font, font size and text color to the
options of your choice. Now, instead of selecting the text box, clicking on the three little
dots from the white menu up top, and then on duplicate, click on ‘effects’ from
the white menu up top.
There are a number of text effects that you can add that will provide the look of outlined
text, including shadow, lift, hollow, splice, echo, glitch, and neon. Once you have chosen
a text effect of your choice, such as the splice effect, you can edit the effect’s
settings, including its thickness, offset, direction and color. Play around with these
settings until you have created an outline around your text in Canva that looks the way
you want.
You can also add more than one outlined text effect to the same Canva design. To do so,
click on ‘text’ from the left-hand side panel, and then on ‘add a heading’.
Type what you wish in the text box, and change the font, font size and text color to the
options of your choice. Click on ‘effects’ from the white menu up top, and select another
text effect of your choice, such as the ‘echo’ effect. Edit the effect’s settings, including
its offset, direction, and color.
As always, you can add other elements to this outlined text design, including lines, shapes,
graphics, photos, videos, audios, charts, frames, grids and more, to take it to the
next level, or even click on ‘templates’ from the left-hand side panel to add outlined
text to one of Canva’s pre-designed templates. For more details on how to customize a design
in Canva, make sure to watch my video on ‘how to use Canva’. I’ll leave the link to
it in the description box below.
Once you’re done creating and customizing your design which includes outlined text,
rename your design up top, and then click on the ‘download’ button. Make sure that
the file type is set to either JPG or PNG, and if you want this white background to be
transparent, go with PNG and then click on the ‘transparent background’ checkbox,
which is a feature exclusive to Canva Pro users, but you can try for free by clicking
on the link in the description box below, and then click on ‘download’ again to
save your Canva design to your computer.
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