How to Use the Background Effect In Canva To Make Your Text Standout
Long gone are the days of searching all over Canva to find the perfect shape to make your text stand out in your designs… or even worse, dragging out the dreaded, time-consuming Adobe Photoshop, InDesign, or Illustrator!
No matter what your branding looks like for your business, there is a powerful, yet easy-to-use, text effect inside of Canva to help the text stand out in all of your designs.
Whether you are creating an Instagram story, Reel, carousel, or feed post, this text effect can bring your design to the next level.
With this text effect, you can create titles, subtitles, body copy, and button-like elements to enhance your design.
This tool allows you to customize the roundness, thickness, transparency, and color BEHIND your text. By doing so, you can customize the background of your text to not only fit your brand but draw attention to that area in your design.
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Video Tutorial: How to add a background to your text in Canva
And now that you know how to customize the text in your design, check out our best-selling Canva templates that use this feature… you know, so you aren’t creating a design from scratch!!
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Manu Muraro is the founder of Your Social Team, an Instagram training membership and template shop that help social media managers and Instagram-savvy small business owners to grow engagement and sales using Instagram and content marketing, without the overwhelm. Born and raised in Brazil, Manu moved to the U.S. in 2000 right out of college to work for Cartoon Network, where she made an award winning career in creative and strategy. In 2021, Manu started Your Template Club, a Canva template subscription service to help social media professionals and Canva-savvy business owners to create content that performs on Instagram, add more Instagram features into their strategy, such as Instagram Lives and Reels, and save time.