Text is media like anything else: it moves, resizes, rotates and stacks the same way. It is also the one media type you create in the app rather than import.
Adding text
Use the add-text tool. A text box appears containing the placeholder Sample Text, already selected. Edit it to replace the placeholder.
Editing text
Edit it in place, on the canvas, at the size and angle it will print:
- Browser and desktop — double-click the text.
- Android and iOS — tap a text box that is already selected, or use the edit-text button in the toolbar.
While editing, the canvas keeps the text where it is; you are typing into the poster, not into a dialog. On phones the canvas shifts up if the keyboard would cover what you are typing, and settles back when you finish.
On Android and iOS, leaving a text box empty removes it when you stop editing — an empty text object is not something you want to hunt for later. The browser and desktop apps keep it, so delete it yourself.
Styling
With a text box selected, the text toolbar offers four controls.
There is no alignment or paragraph control.
Font
The font family, from the fonts bundled with the app.
Format
Regular, Bold or Italic. These are one setting rather than three toggles, so bold and italic cannot be combined. In the browser and desktop apps, Cmd/Ctrl + B and Cmd/Ctrl + I switch between them, and they work while you are typing.
Font size
Color
One difference worth knowing
In the browser and desktop apps, size and color can be applied to part of the text. Select three words inside the box and color only those.
On Android and iOS, size and color apply to the whole text box. Selecting a few words and changing the color changes all of it.
If a design depends on multi-colored text within one box, build it in the browser. Or use two text boxes, which behaves identically everywhere.
Text in the export
Text is rendered by the export at the resolution you export at, not at screen resolution, so it stays crisp on paper.
A vector PDF export goes further: text is emitted as real vector text rather than pixels, so it is sharp at any size and remains selectable in a PDF reader. For a poster whose main content is type, that is usually the right export.
Text across a seam
A word that lands on a tile boundary is split by the cut, like everything else. Two things help:
- Overlap makes the join forgiving, so a slightly short cut does not eat the middle of a letter. See white gaps when taping.
- Moving the text a centimetre away from the boundary is free and often better. The tile grid is drawn on the canvas so you can see where the seams will fall.