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 very helpful for a newbie like me! x
So glad you found this helpful
Oooh this is a good idea, perfect for making pins stand out with text z
It such a cool effect right?
I need ALL the canva tips – would you say it’s better than Picmonkey?x
I’ve used both and find that Canva just offers so much more.
So helpful!!JenniferCurated By Jennifer
Thanks Jennifer!
I only just learnt how to do this recently, it’s such a good tool to use to help define words a little more! Thanks for sharing!Hope your week is going well 🙂
Ohh I’ve never tried this before, I’l have to give it a go!Corinne x
Thanks so much Corinne x
There is SO much to still explore on Canva! x
Have fun! There are so many cool tools you can use.
Oh this is such a handy guide to have!
Thank you so much
There are so many pro features I really want now!Jasmine xx