How to Easily Animate Text in Canva
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If you’ve ever wondered how to add quick & simple text animations to your designs, you’re in the right place!
Thanks to Canva, you can easily add simple yet beautiful text animations to any of your design graphics (no Photoshop or fancy apps required). Please keep in mind that this feature will work much more seamlessly if you’re using the desktop version of Canva.
If you’re ready to level up your Canva design projects with stunning text animations, then read along to learn how to easily add text animations to your designs in Canva with this time-saving feature.
Let’s get to it!
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1. Create Your Design
Go to your Canva home page and click ‘Create a design’.
For this particular feature, it doesn’t matter which dimensions you choose for your graphic. You can either create a new post or select an existing one.
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2. Add Text to Your Design
If you want to use the text animation feature, you will first need to add a layer of text to your design!
Feel free to explore the range of font combinations that Canva has to offer, or use the following articles as a starting guide to the best serif, sans-serif and cursive typefaces that are available in Canva:
If you don’t have time to sift through those guides just yet, you can add a simple layer of text to your design using the ‘T’ keyboard shortcut
3. Choose Your Animated Text Effect
Applying the text animation is simple — just follow the steps below.
Select your desired text
Click the icon that says > Animate
A panel will display on the left-hand side of your Canva editor. You will see 2 tabs: ‘Page Animations’ and ‘Text Animations’.
Select ‘Text Animations’ and you will find a selection of fun animations to choose from. These will be organized under the following categories:
Basic
Simple Writing
Bold Writing
Scale
Exaggerate
Slide in & Out
Hover your mouse over each animation until you find one that fits your style/design. Once satisfied, simply tap or click on the animation to apply it to your design.
The list of animations includes:
Ascend
Baseline
Block
Bounce
Breathe
Burst
Drift
Fade
Neon
Pan
Pop
Rise
Roll
Scrapbook
Shift
Skate
Stomp
Tectonic
Tumble
Typewriter
And that’s it! You can now make any adjustments necessary to create your animated design. This may take some practice and playing around to see what settings work best for your specific style.
4. Export Your Animated Design
Once you’re finished making changes to your design, you can download the animation in MP4 or GIF format.
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