STYLE & LEGIBILITY

Add accents for designs that stand out

Combine strokes (including double strokes), blur and glow, drop shadows, and a background box to create crisp, readable typography over any footage.

• Double strokes
• Blur, glow, and shadows
• Background boxes

How to UseSettings Reference

Adding an Outline

1. Set Page to Global Settings.
2. Increase Width in Stroke to show the inner outline (Inner Stroke).
3. Choose Color, Join Style, and Order to suit the desired result.

Setting	Effect on Appearance
Join Style	Switches corners between sharp, rounded, and beveled
Miter Limit	Prevents sharp corners from extending too far
Order	Determines whether the fill or stroke is drawn in front
Gap	Adds space between the fill and stroke
Outer Width	Adds a second outline adjacent to the outside of the Inner Stroke
Outer Color	Sets the Outer Stroke color

TIP

Increase Gap to create a transparent space between the fill and stroke. Combine it with Transparent Fill to create outlined text with a hollow center.

Using a Double Stroke

1. Set Width above 0.0 to show the Inner Stroke.
2. Increase Outer Width to add a second outline outside the Inner Stroke.
3. Assign different colors to Color and Outer Color.
4. If needed, increase Gap to add space between the text fill and the innermost active stroke.

Inner Stroke and Outer Stroke render independently when their respective widths are positive. When both are active, Outer Stroke remains adjacent to Inner Stroke. When only Outer Stroke is active, Gap is applied between the text fill and Outer Stroke.

Turn on Use Indiv Stroke in Character Settings to set Stroke Width, Stroke Gap, Stroke Color, Outer Stroke Width, and Outer Stroke Color for individual characters.

Blurring and Glowing Text (Blur / Glow)

1. Set Page to Global Settings.
2. Increase Blur X / Blur Y in the Blur group to blur the text itself (fill, gradient, texture, and stroke together).
3. Increase Glow to brighten the blurred text into a glow. Higher values make the glow denser and push a saturated core toward white (it has no effect while blur is 0.0).

Setting	Result
Blur X / Y (blur only)
Blur X / Y + Glow

Adding Depth or a Halo with a Shadow

1. Set Page to Global Settings.
2. Turn on Draw Global Shadow in Shadow Settings.
3. Position the shadow with Distance and Angle.
4. Increase Blur X / Blur Y to soften the shadow edge, and increase Glow to turn the blurred shadow into a luminous outer glow (set Distance to 0.0 to center the halo directly behind the text).

Setting	Result
Sharp shadow (no blur)
Blur X / Y (blurred shadow)
Blur X / Y + Glow (glowing shadow)

TIP

To change the shadow color for only a specific character, use Use Indiv Shadow Color in Character Settings. This individual setting enables the shadow for the target character even when Draw Global Shadow is off.

Adding a Background Box

1. Set Page to Global Settings.
2. Turn on Draw Bounding Box in Bounding Box Settings.
3. To fill the box behind the text, turn on Fill Background and set Fill Color and Fill Opacity.
4. Adjust the space around the text with Margin X / Margin Y, and shift the border or fill independently with Border Offset / Fill Offset.
5. Control which sides of the border are drawn and their thickness with Top / Bottom / Left / Right Edge and Border Width.

NOTE

The corner radius (Corner Radius) applies to the background fill regardless of whether the border is enabled. On the other hand, the corner radius takes effect on the border itself only when all of the Top / Bottom / Left / Right edges are ON - with any edge turned OFF, the border is drawn with square corners.