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# Text and shapes
> Add titles and shapes, style them with fonts, backgrounds, strokes and glows, draw with the Pen, and turn text into a Text FX reveal
Text and shape clips are drawn by GoFrame Editor itself, so they stay crisp at any export size and every property can be changed or animated later. Use them for titles, lower thirds, callouts, colour blocks and simple graphics. For animated designs that go beyond this, ask the agent for a motion graphic; see [Motion graphics](/editor/motion-graphics).
## Add text
Press `T`, click **Add text** in the Timeline toolbar, or right-click an empty part of the Timeline and choose **Add Text**. The command palette (`⌘P`) lists it too.
A new text clip is placed at the playhead and lasts 5 seconds. If your footage sits on V1, the editor creates V2 for the text automatically. It reads **Text** in Montserrat at weight 500 and 48 px, white, centred on the canvas. Type your words into the **Text** field at the top of the Inspector, and trim the clip on the Timeline to change how long it stays on screen.
## Text sections in the Inspector
A selected text clip shows the **Text** field and font controls first, then **Background**, **Position**, **Appearance**, **Scale**, **Shadow**, **Stroke**, **Glow**, **Mask**, **Animate** and **Text FX**. Position, Appearance, Mask and Animate work as for any clip; see [Inspector: clip properties](/editor/inspector) and [Animate clips with presets and keyframes](/editor/animation-and-keyframes).
### Text and font
* **Text**: the words on screen.
* **Font**: pick a family. The list is split into **Web fonts** (Caveat, Cormorant Garamond, Exo 2, Geologica, Golos Text, Inter, Inter Tight, Lora, Manrope, Merriweather, Montserrat, Mulish, Nunito, Onest, Open Sans, Oswald, Playfair Display, PT Sans, Roboto, Roboto Condensed, Rubik, Rubik Mono One, Russo One, Source Code Pro, Unbounded) and **System fonts**.
* **Load system fonts** under **System fonts** adds the fonts installed on your computer to the list; your browser may ask for permission.
* Weight (500 by default) and size (48 by default).
* Alignment buttons, and case buttons **aA** / **AA** / **aa** for as-typed, upper-case or lower-case text.
* A colour swatch (white, `#FFFFFF`, by default).
### Background
Click **+** in the **Background** header for a filled box behind the text, then set its colour, corner radius and the padding around the letters.
### Position and keyframes
**Position** has alignment buttons, **X** and **Y** fields (960 / 540 for a centred clip on a Wide canvas), **Left** / **Top** constraint pickers and an anchor grid. The **★** button next to **X** and **Y** sets a keyframe at the playhead, which is how you make a title drift or slide over time; see [Animate clips with presets and keyframes](/editor/animation-and-keyframes).
### Scale
**Scale** stretches or squashes the text horizontally and vertically, independently of its font size.
### Shadow, Stroke and Glow
Each starts empty and is switched on from its header:
* **Shadow**: a drop shadow with an offset, blur and colour.
* **Stroke**: an outline with a width and colour.
* **Glow**: a soft halo with an intensity, radius, opacity and colour.
## Colours and the eyedropper
Every colour swatch opens the same picker. Type a hex value, or use the eyedropper to sample any pixel on the screen, for example a brand colour from your footage.
## Add shapes
Click **Add shape** in the toolbar and pick **Rectangle**, **Ellipse**, **Pen**, **Polygon**, **Star** or **Line**. The empty-area right-click menu has **Add Shape** as well. The shape lands at the playhead on a video track.
**Pen** is different: instead of dropping a ready shape, it lets you draw your own path on Preview.
## Shape sections in the Inspector
A shape shows the sections every clip has (**Position**, **Layout**, **Anchor**, **Appearance**, **Mask**, **Animate**) plus **Fill**, **Stroke**, **Shadow** and **Effects**.
* A polygon has a number of sides; a star has a number of points and an inner radius.
* **Fill**: the fill colour.
* **Stroke**, **Shadow** and **Effects** work as described above and in [Inspector: clip properties](/editor/inspector).
Use the corner radius in **Appearance** to round a rectangle's corners.
## Text FX
**Text FX** turns a plain text clip into an animated reveal:
**By word**, **By letter** or **Scramble** (letters cycle through random characters before settling).
**Reveal** is how long the animation takes, in seconds (0.1 to 5 s). **Easing** starts at **Reveal (default)**; open the dropdown for other curves.
Click **Convert to text reveal**. The note under the button explains what happens: *Converts this text clip into an animated text-reveal motion graphic. Reversible from the new clip; existing keyframes are not carried over.*
The conversion is reversible from the new clip: select it and convert it back to get the editable text clip. Keyframes you had set on the original text clip are not carried across in either direction.
Text FX is the quick way to get animated titles. Preset entrances such as **Fade** or **Slide** in the **Animate** section work on the whole text box instead; see [Animate clips with presets and keyframes](/editor/animation-and-keyframes).
## Ask the agent instead
The agent can create and style text and shapes for you: "Add a lower third with my name and title in Inter, white on a dark blue rounded box", "Put a semi-transparent black rectangle behind the captions", "Make the headline reveal by word over one second". See [Prompting](/editor/prompting).
## Continue
* [Inspector: clip properties](/editor/inspector)
* [Animate clips with presets and keyframes](/editor/animation-and-keyframes)
* [Captions](/editor/captions)
* [Motion graphics](/editor/motion-graphics)