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Adding text

Add and style text, choose a font and check which characters it supports.

New in Release 5: line height, every weight and style of a font, 17 new fonts, and boxes for characters a font can't display. Organisations move to Release 5 on their release weekend, from 9 October.

Not on Release 5 yet? Until your organisation moves over, use Adding text (before Release 5).

Add titles, labels and short copy directly in the Composer.

Add a text asset

  1. Select the scene.

  2. Click Text in the top bar, or click the canvas and press T. A New text asset appears, ready for typing.

  3. Type your text. Press Enter for a new line.

  4. Press Esc or click the canvas when you're done. Your text is saved as you type.

Style your text

With the text asset selected, open Text style in the property panel:

  • Font and style (every style is new in Release 5): the weights and italics available for the font, for example Light, Regular, SemiBold or Bold Italic.

  • Size

  • Colour: the swatch shows the colour you picked.

  • Alignment

  • Line height (new in Release 5): the space between lines, as a multiple of the text size, from 0.5 to 10. Use the arrows to change it in steps of 0.1 (hold Shift for steps of 1), or type a value. New text starts at 1.0; text created before Release 5 keeps 1.5, so existing stories look the same.

Shortcuts: Ctrl + B, I or U for bold, italic and underline, and Ctrl + L or R to align left or right (⌘ on Mac).

Available fonts

Every Compose environment includes these fonts:

Anton, Arial, Barlow, Bitter, Bree Serif, Caveat, DM Sans, DM Serif Text, Inter, Josefin Sans, Lato, Lora, Merriweather, Montserrat, Noto Sans, Noto Sans JP (Japanese), Noto Sans KR (Korean), Noto Sans SC (Simplified Chinese), Noto Serif, Nunito, Open Sans, Oswald, Playfair Display, Poppins, Quicksand, Raleway, Roboto, Roboto Condensed, Roboto Mono, Source Sans Pro and Space Grotesk.

New in Release 5: Barlow, Bitter, Caveat, DM Sans, Lato, Lora, Noto Sans, Noto Sans JP, Noto Serif, Nunito, Open Sans, Oswald, Poppins, Quicksand, Roboto Condensed, Source Sans Pro and Space Grotesk.

Arial Black is now a style of Arial: choose Arial, then the Black style.

Your organisation may also have its own brand fonts. To add a brand font, contact TSC Support.

Languages and special characters

Choose a font that covers your language: Noto Sans JP for Japanese, Noto Sans KR for Korean and Noto Sans SC for Simplified Chinese.

From Release 5, when a font can't display a character, the Composer and Preview show an empty box in its place, exactly as TSS Play will. Replace the character or choose another font before you publish. Emoji are not supported.

Tips

  • Keep text large enough to read from where your audience stands.

  • For long or heavily styled copy, design it in your design tool and upload it as an image or PDF.

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