Summary
Text styles are an excellent way to maintain brand and style consistency in your Studio products. Custom Text Styles allow Admins and Content Designers to create character formatting specific to the needs of the product.
Who?
This feature/solution requires your Customer Success Contact to enable, but then individual permissions can be done by the Bynder Admin.
How?
Creating A New Text Style
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Navigate to Studio.
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Click + New design, or open an existing design.
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Select an existing text element or click on Add asset > Text (for video) or + New Layer (for images). Additionally you can press 't' to create a text element in your design.
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Scroll to the Text section.
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Click on the + button.
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Name your new text style.
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Customize your text styles with the formatting options.
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Click Create text style.
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Click Save.
Note: You cannot have multiple text styles in a single text box. If you have more than one text style in your text box you must highlight each text style and save them as individual custom text styles.
10. Once you have created each style you can select the Configure Element Styles section of the dropdown.
11. From here you can select the text styles needed for the Content Creators.
12. Once you select the styles you wish to use you will press Save changes.
Managing a Text Style (detach, rename, delete)
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Navigate to the right sidebar.
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Make sure you are under the Text tab, and click on the
button to navigate to all styles.
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Select the Text Style you would like to manage.
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Click the
button.
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Navigate to the following options:
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Delete style - Delete text style, you must highlight the text you wish to delete. the style from.
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Detach style - detaches the text style from the text while maintaining the set properties. If there are multiple styles in the text box it will detach all the text styles in the box. If you wish to detach one style in a text box you must highlight the style you wish to detach within the text box.
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Rename style - renames the text style.
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Using An Existing Text Style As A Designer
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Click Add Asset > Text.
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Select the text element you would like to apply the style to.
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Navigate to the sidebar > Text.
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Click on the text style dropdown menu.
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Select the text style from the list.
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This will automatically apply the selected text style to your text element.
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Click Save.
Using A Text Style As A Content Creator
1. Click the text element you wish to adjust.
2. Select the portion of the text you want to apply the text style too.
3. From the dropdown of available text styles, select the style you wish to apply to the text. Once selected it is automatically applied.
Note: The text style will be applied to the entirety of the text element unless you highlight a specific portion of the text.
FAQs
Can a Content Creator decide what font to use?
Content Creators can only use the fonts made available to them by the Admin or Designer.
Why don't I see all the text styles I saved?
You may have forgotten to select them in the Configure Element Styles.
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