Want to add some extra oomph to your Canva designs? Outlining your text is one of the easiest ways to make your graphics pop and grab attention—especially for social media, thumbnails, and lead magnets. The good news? You don’t need fancy design skills or Photoshop. In this tutorial, I’ll show you exactly how to outline your text in Canva in just a few clicks (yep, even if you’re not a designer!).
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How to Outline Your Text in Canva
Here’s your cheat sheet on how to easily create an outline in Canva.
Create with a Fresh Design
Before you get started, let’s start off with a clean slate. Click on CREATE A DESIGN.
Select the custom dimensions you require. If you are planning on sharing this design on any of the social media platforms. Canva already provides you with the correct dimensions, which makes it even easier when creating your designs for a specific platform.
Add your Text
On the left menu select the text tool or use Canva’s handy shortcut Cmd/ Cntrl T.
Now you can choose the font style, font size, and colour you want the text to display.
Apply the ‘Splice’ Text Effect
Now for the fun part, the one effect tool to make this all happen! Within the Canva editor find ‘Effects’ located on the top bar.
Choose ‘Splice’ from the list of text effects options. From here, you can effortlessly change the Thickness, Offset, Direction. You also have the option to change the colour of the outline text. The splice tool is quite cool and doesn’t get as much love as it should.
Download Your Design
Once you’re happy with how your outlined text appears. You can export your design by clicking on DOWNLOAD. Choose your file type and click DOWNLOAD.
And that’s it! You’ve created a stunning text outline using Canva’s easy-to-use platform in literally a few minutes.
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This is all such great information! I didn’t realize different social media can be so different when you post/pin/etc. Thanks for sharing!
All of these are fantastic tools to make money, Candice! I use many of them, but have always wanted to try BlogtoPin, I’m so intrigued by it, I always create my own pins in Canva but that would be so helpful if it did it for me!
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That’s so true, BlogtoPin is a huge time-saver! It really speeds up the Pinterest process so you can focus on content creation.
Love all of these blog traffic tips for the holidays, Candice! It’s so hard to believe it’s almost holiday time and it’s always great to get ahead as much as possible with content.
Wishing you a wonderful rest of your week! 🙂
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