If you’re using Canva, you’ll love the ease of use of this new feature. We can add a background colour to text in seconds!
Creating and maintaining a cohesive look in our designs can be challenging, but it can be energizing if we have the right tools and tips to begin and, hopefully, thrive! ♥
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This blog post was inspired by a recent “How-To” Tutorial I shared as an Instagram Post and via my YouTube Channel.
How to Add Background Colour to Text in Canva!
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Canva is my go-to design tool for social media graphics. With its easy-to-use templates, we can easily design graphics for social media, marketing material, and so much more. And the features are amazing!
If you have a Canva account, you’re good to go. If you’re new to Canva, you can easily create a free account here, or use the link below.
You don’t need the Pro version to access this feature!
In this short tutorial, we’ll go through the few steps of adding a background colour to text in Canva. ♥
Okay, let’s jump in.
First, select the text you’d like to add a background colour to.
Then click on Effects, located above your design.
This will open the Effects panel on the left.
Under Style, you’ll see the option Background.
Once you click on it, you’ll see the yellow colour added to your text.
We can change the Roundness, Spread, Transparency, and Colour.
To change the Colour, just click on the yellow Colour box.
Then choose your colour or add a custom colour from your palette, as displayed below.
I reduced the Transparency, as well.
And we’re done! You can download your design in your desired format.
If you haven’t been using this feature in Canva, I hope this post encourages you to do so. It’s a fantastic tool to easily add a background colour to text in our designs.
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Until next time … happy creating, my friends! ♥
An incredibly useful how to. Thanks for sharing, Natalie 💕🙂
Thanks, Harmony! It’s a great feature to use. Hope your day is awesome! 🙂
Yours too! 💖
This is fantastic! I’m working on creating a book cover right now on Canva. I’ll play around with this tool. Thanks, Natalie! 🙂
That’s awesome, Yvette! Cheering you on. 🙂 Thanks so much for stopping by and for sharing, too. I appreciate you!
Thanks, Natalie!
Most welcome, Jan! Hope your day is awesome! xo
Thanks for the tutorial, Natalie! Have an awesome day!
Most welcome, Mae! Cheers! 🙂
Great information, Natalie 🙂
A joy to share, Denise! Thank you. 🙂
That’s a great tip, Natalie – I actually have been wondering about that, and now thankfully I know. Toni x
That’s awesome, Toni! Delighted to know it’s helpful. Wishing you a lovely day! xo
HI Natalie, you make it all sound so easy. I recently acquired Canva so I will see for myself how easy it is.
Cheering for you, Robbie! Happy to help in any way. 🙂
Very helpful article! Thank you for sharing!
Wonderful to know it was helpful, Jill. Thanks for stopping by and your kind words. Cheers!
I did it once and could never found where to do it again. Thanks a lot Natalie, it surely takes steps for you to mix print-screens and precise text explanations, but it is needed for cases like this!
That’s wonderful to hear. Thanks a bunch for sharing. Happy creating! 🙂
This doesn’t work for me the way it worked for you. The background color only appears around the text, not in the entire text box.
Hi, Kayla. Oh poohie, I’m not sure why that’s happening for you. It must be frustrating. 🙁