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Text look ​

A text look is one named set of type choices in two layers: the TEXT layer every text wears — how big, how heavy, capitals or not, the letters' colour and outline — and the CAPTION layer only a caption reads — how the spoken word stands out, how a keyword looks and the expressive look. The seven shipped looks — Bold, Karaoke, Headline, Sunset, Highlight, Neon and Minimal — and every look you star are offered on a text's Text tab, a table's Table tab and a caption's Captions tab alike; anything but a caption wears a look's text layer and leaves the caption layer alone. A look sets the type's size, weight, capitals, colour and outline and leaves the font, alignment and shape alone. Its sizes are shares of the frame's height — on a document, the page's — so one look reads the same on a small picture and a large one.

A document's words wear a look too. The same look card stands at the right of the Style menu, where it reads and puts on the look of the words you have selected in the body, and at the right of the window that opens while you type in a header or a footer. Where a look can put capitals or an outline on, Capitals and Outline stand among those rows to take them off again. These two cards carry no star, because those words are not an item: star a look from a text box or a table, and it is offered here with the others.

On a text the look's settings are the Text tab's own rows, and its card has no Recipe. On a caption each speaker wears one whole look:

Recipe opens a look's settings in the strip's place, taking Source and Find with it — the picked speaker's, whose look it is. It opens with the text item's own four rows of controls at the top — face and size, style and alignment, bubble, colours — so a caption is set exactly as text is. Here the words' colour, Text, and the bubble's Fill and Border can each hold a gradient: under the colour picker's rainbow bar sits the gradient bar — press it to add a colour there, drag a colour along it to move it, or drag it off the bar to remove it — and beneath it Across, Radius or Around, with Gradient tilt for the angle. Then come Spoken (its colours and a Highlight box behind it — a look never moves the words); Keywords, how a keyword looks (the Keyword color, where its Emoji goes — Above word, Instead of word or Off — and Underline or Bigger); and Expressive, an opt-in look in which louder words grow under a Strength dial and held words stretch, with Shouts in capitals. A look you save from a caption keeps all of these, and a text item that wears it uses its text rows. Hover a row of the Recipe, or hold a finger still on it, and it shows what that setting does — the sentence this page lists for it — with Learn more leading to its section here; the value does not change.

Where you can use a text look ​

  • Image — Text · Table
  • Video — Text · Captions · Table
  • Document — Text · Table

What you can do with a look you made ​

Star · Post · Copy

Text ​

  • Size — How big a text look’s letters are, as a share of the picture’s or the video’s height.
  • Outline width — How thick a text look’s outline is round its letters, as a share of their size.

Spoken ​

  • Spoken color — The colour of the word a speaker is saying, as the caption follows along.
  • Said color — The colour of the words a speaker has already said.
  • Box color — The colour of the rounded box behind the word being said; none draws no box.

Keywords ​

  • Keyword color — The colour a speaker’s keywords are drawn in, whatever has been said.
  • Bigger — How much larger a speaker’s keywords are drawn than their other words.
  • Bold — Whether a speaker’s keywords are drawn bold.
  • Underline — Whether a speaker’s keywords are underlined.
  • Emoji — Where a keyword’s emoji goes: above the word, in its place, or nowhere.
    • Above word · Instead of word · Off

Expressive ​

  • Strength — How far a speaker’s words swell and shrink with how they are said, from not at all to fully.
  • Shouts in capitals — Whether a speaker’s shouted words are written in capitals.

A look's weight and capitals are a text's, described on the Text page, and its colours a shape's ink, described on the Shape page.