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A text layer is where your customer’s name, date, or message lands. Select one on the canvas or in the layer list and the right-hand panel fills with everything you can change about it.
The right-hand panel for the layer named Kid's Name, with numbered sections for Content, Text Style, Font Options, Text Colors, Text Shadow and Transformation, followed by Customer permissions and Use as Mask.

The settings for a text layer: 1 Content, 2 Text Style, 3 Font Options, 4 Text Colors, 5 Text Shadow, 6 Transformation.

This page covers the first two sections. The rest have pages of their own, linked at the bottom.

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Content: the words on the layer

The Content section highlighted, showing a text box containing the word Name and an Automatic Multiline toggle switched on.

The Content box holds the placeholder wording that shows before a customer types.

Whatever you type in Content is what appears on the canvas. On a personalized layer this is placeholder wording, not the finished product. It is what you and your customer see before they type anything, so write something that shows off the layer at a realistic length. “Name” or “Alexandra” tells you far more about whether the design works than “Text 1” does. Automatic Multiline decides what happens when the words are wider than the box. Leave it on and long text wraps onto a second line. Turn it off and the text stays on one line.
Type your longest realistic name into Content and check it still looks right. A layer that suits “Amy” can fall apart on “Konstantinos”.
Automatic Multiline only appears on flat text. Curved and warped text follows its shape instead of wrapping, so the setting is hidden there.

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Text Style: size, spacing, and alignment

The Text Style section highlighted, showing a Regular weight dropdown, a size range reading 8 to 66, a letter spacing field set to 0, a line height field set to 1.2, three alignment buttons, and an uppercase TT button.

The Text Style section controls weight, the size range, spacing, and alignment.

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The size range is what keeps long names fitting

The two numbers under the weight dropdown are a range, not a single size. The text grows and shrinks between them so it keeps filling its box without spilling out.
  • The first number is the floor. Text will not shrink below it, no matter how long the name is.
  • The second number is the ceiling. Text will not grow past it, no matter how short.
This is what stops a one-letter name from ballooning and a fifteen-letter name from running off the edge of the mug. Set the ceiling to the size the design looks best at, then lower the floor until even your longest test name still fits.
Set the floor too low and long names become unreadably small on the finished print. Type a long name into Content and look at the design frame at that size before you settle on a number.

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Uppercase changes what gets printed

TT is not just a preview. If it is on, a customer who types “alex” gets “ALEX” on the product. That is usually what you want on a bold slogan and rarely what you want on a signature-style script.

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Where to next

Fonts and font libraries

Pick the typeface, and let customers choose their own.

Text color and stroke

Fill color, outlines, and offering a choice of colors.

Curved and warped text

Arc, wave, circle, and the other text shapes.

What customers can change

Decide which layers a shopper is allowed to edit.