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Text styles

Edit a text block's words and look, and keep the whole deck consistent with named styles in the style guide.

Text blocks get their look from named styles, like Title, Heading, Body and Caption. Change a style once in the style guide, and every block that uses it updates across the deck.

Edit a text block #

  1. Select the block on the page.
  2. In the Inspect tab, type in Text.

If the frame cuts the text off, the Inspector says Text is cut off: shorten it or enlarge the frame. Resize the frame on the page, or under Frame. See Blocks and layout.

Pick a style #

In the Inspect tab, pick from Style. Every named style in the deck is listed. (default for this block) uses the plain look for that kind of block.

New decks start with Title, Heading, Subheading, Body, Caption and Label.

Override one block #

Under the style, four menus change just this block:

  • Size override: small, medium, large or extra large.
  • Align: left, center or right.
  • Tone: default, muted or accent.
  • Weight: regular or bold.

Set a menu back to style to follow the named style again.

For a look you want on many blocks, change or add a named style instead.

The style guide #

Click Styles in the top bar. The Style guide lists every named style, largest first, with a preview in the deck's theme.

For each style you can change:

  • Name
  • Size: in inches or pixels on this sheet, following the units menu. It's stored as a share of the page width, so it scales with the sheet.
  • Weight, Tone and Align
  • caps: all capital letters.

Each row says how many blocks use the style.

Add or delete a style #

  • Click + New style at the bottom of the style guide, then set it up.
  • Click Delete on a style to remove it. You can only delete a style no block uses, and a deck always keeps at least one.

Master pages #

Under the styles, Master pages shows every page template drawn with the deck's styles and theme. Click Add to deck to add one as a new page. See Add a page.

Suggesting style changes #

While Suggest changes is on, picking a style or an override becomes a suggestion for the Queue. Clearing an override back to style can't be suggested. See The Queue.