Adding text to Canva is a great way to get used to how it works and how the design tools are set up. In design, the writing tool is on the left side of the screen.
Start with a blank canvas or open your design project to add words. There is a toolbar with different choices on the left side of Canva's interface. Click on the Text tab when you find it. This will bring up a window with three simple text options:
If you click on one of these choices, you can pick it, or you can click and drag the text type right onto your canvas.
Simply click on the canvas and press the "T" key on your computer to make a text box by hand. This shortcut adds a new text box in the middle of the image without you having to do anything. The default text will show up, and you can type your own content straight to replace it.

Double-click the text box that you want to edit.

Note: If you have a Canva Pro account, you can access an extra 5,000 fonts. This makes it easy to find fonts that no one else is using.
Click on the font size you want to change and type in the new size. You can also click on the plus or minus signs to make the area bigger or smaller.
Click Text Color and select a new color from the color panel.
Click Bold, Italics, or Underline to add emphasis to text. If these icons are grayed out, it means that the current font used doesn’t support adding emphasis.
Repeatedly click on Center, Left, Right, or Justify until the layout you want is used.
Let's say your brand has a sharp look, a bright color scheme, and messages that are easy to understand. Think of Comic Sans and Papyrus all over it. Yes? That's the magic (or lack of magic) of putting fonts together. Like a friendly guide, they whisper your personality, make your writing easier to read, and help people find their way through your stuff as the voice of your brand. You might see a clean headline with serifs that grab your attention, then soft text that doesn't have any serifs. You can talk to it and see it in a way that makes the important parts stand out without making your eyes melt. Take a look at the same message written in Comic Sans with all capital letters. It would look like a mess. Friends, fonts are what make a brand "wow" or "whoa, back up!" Let's stop fighting about style and use the power of pairs of fonts instead!
Putting fonts together that look good is a big part of graphic design. To do this, you need to know the basic rules of font matching, such as how to balance, contrast, and line fonts. This is how these ideas can be broken down:
You can pair fonts in ways that look good, make the design better, and make it easier to read if you know and follow these rules. Don't be afraid to break the "rules" when you find a good pair of fonts. As you get better, you'll get really good at putting fonts together in ways that look great.

Lovelo is a modern, strong style that makes you feel good about yourself. This method works really well for titles and headlines. It looks very different when paired with Gistesy, a sleek and beautiful script font. Strong lines from Lovelo and smooth curves from Gistesy work well together to make designs more interesting and classier. This mix could be used to make graphics for social media or brand products that stand out.

The sans serif font Le Jour Serif looks good for a long time. Because it has clean lines and can be used in many ways, it looks good in a lot of different design styles. Hero Light is a simple sans-serif font that looks great with it for a modern and stylish look. Hero Light is a simple font that looks good with the classic style of Le Jour Serif. Both of them work well together for news stories or blogs.

Quiche Bold is a great pattern to choose if you want something modern and stylish. It can be used for big headlines and messages because it has strong geometric shapes. Quiche Bold makes its effect stand out even more when it is used with Poppins, a flexible sans-serif font. This mix makes your designs look professional and is simple to read, so it's great for brochures, slideshows, or product boxes.

You can look classy and polished if you wear Versailles with Open Sans Light. The fancy letter style Versailles makes you feel rich and well-off. This makes a nice contrast with Open Sans Light's clean and light style, making it both interesting to look at and easy to read. That mix works great for high-end business cards, wedding invitations, and event signs.

Lemon Tuesday is another great choice. It has a fun and lively vibe that you can use in your designs. It's so cute that it looks like it was made by hand. Aileron Thin is a light and thin sans-serif font that looks good with Lemon Tuesday because it brings out the color of the text. This pair looks great together in kids' books, on this fun social media post, or in creative branding materials.
Now that you know about these lovely Canva font pairs, it's time to use them in your work. Here are some tips to get the most out of these sets:
By using these sets of fonts, you can take your creativity and design skills to a whole new level in Canva.
Not only the pairs that were already stated, but Canva has a huge number of fonts that you can try out. Think of more than a few different pairs. Check out other pairs that match your style and project needs. The combinations you find might surprise you and work well with your design goals.
Text can be given effects in a number of different ways on Canva. You can add effects to text using the Text tool or the Text Format options in the Format menu. To see the text effects, select the text you want to change and click "Effects" in the tool bar. On the left, you'll see two groups: style effects and shape effects. First, we'll check out the style effects. Let's have fun with these cool word effects. As we go through the styles, we'll talk about what they do.

It makes your words look like they have a shadow. There are some things you can do to change how the shadow looks. The knobs can be moved to the left or right to get each setting just right. The options shown are what they should be. You can change offset to change how far away the shade is from the words. From the words, the direction can change the line of the shadow. For each shade, blur and transparency can be used to change how see-through the shadow is. By clicking on the color tile below and selecting the desired color from the left-hand design box, we can also change the color of the shadow.

It looks like your writing is being pulled off the page with this effect. You can only change how strong the shadow is behind the words with this effect. You can make the fuzzy shade stronger by moving the tool to the right. You can make it weaker by moving it to the left.

The letters get smoothed out with this effect, making your text stand out. It works best with styles that are thick, not thin. The width tool lets you change how thick your shape is.

The hollow effect can also be used to make the edges of your text smooth. To make one, you should start with a good text. On the toolbar, click the three dots to show more choices. Then, press the copy button to make a copy of your text. To change the contrast of your original text, click on the color tile and pick a color from the list on the left.

Pick the second word; it should be black. Then, go to Effects and click on Hollow in the list on the left. Put the outline text on top of the heavy text.

The next effect, Splice, is a mix of the empty effect and the shadow effect. You can move the control bar four times to make your split text look different. You can change how thick the text outline is, how far the shadow goes away from the text outline, and the direction of the shadow text behind the outline text. You can also change the color of the shadow text by clicking on the color tile below and choosing the color you want from the editor panel on the left.

Echo copies your text twice and puts them behind each other to make it look like it's stacked. You can change things by offset, direction, and color. Offset changes how far away the main text is from the shadow text. The shadow text moves behind the main text in different directions. And the color changes the shadow text's color. You can see it better when the font isn't too thick or too small.

An effect called "glitch" will make your text look like it's not lined up straight. You can change things by offset, direction, and color. Gap changes how much of a gap there is, and Color changes what color the glitch is. You can only glitch in electric cyan, light neon pink, neon blue, and bright red. It looks good on both thick and thin letters with the glitch effect.

Your text looks like it's from the 1980s because of the neon effect's bright glow. You can only change how bright the neon glow is with this effect. The glow gets stronger when you move the tool to the left, but the word gets less clear. By moving it to the right, the writing is clear and the glow is less strong.

We're done with all the style effects. The only shape effect is curve text, which is what we'll talk about next. You can curve text with Curve. If you move the curve tool to the right, you can change how strong the curve is. It lets you turn your words into either a half-circle or a full-circle.

You can change the curve's angle in a different way if you move the curve tool to the left.

One last thing to remember about Canva text effects is that any of them can make your text stand out, but you should only use a few of them in your design. Also, remember that they only look good on title texts, not body texts.
TIP: You might not be able to read the text after adding effects to it in Canva.
TIP: In Canva, it's easy to line things up wrong if you're not careful. If something isn't lined up right, you can always use the alignment tools to fix it. But if you don't know how to use the positioning tools, you might make a bad plan. The first way you can align text is by using the text alignment buttons in the toolbar. Choose the words you want to match and click on one of the "Align" buttons. You can choose to left-align, center-align, right-align, or justify.

There is another way to fix text. Use the choices in the Text Properties menu. Click on the "T" button in the toolbar or double-click on the word you want to align. This will bring up the menu. Then, in the Text Properties menu, click on "Alignment" and select the alignment method you want from the drop-down menu that appears. The third way to align text is to use the alignment choices in the Format Menu. To get to this page, click on the "Format" tab at the top of the Canva Designer. Next, find "Text alignment" in the Format Menu. Click on the drop-down menu next to it and pick the type of alignment you want.

Finally, you can align text in HTML code in a fourth way. To do this, add the value "align=left", "align=center", "align=right", or "align=justify" to the beginning tag of your text. That's all there is to it! There are four different ways to arrange text in Canva. Get in touch with our support team or look at our Help Center if you need more help with how to use Canva.