To add text to your scene:

1. Click the text button in the top toolbar.
2. Choose between Title 1, Title 2, Subtitle, Body, or Caption format.
3. Drag then and place the text box on your scene

Text settings

To change the style of your text, select the text and use the right-side menu to customize your text.

The right-side menu gives you control over the following text properties:

Font Family

Select the typeface for your text. Click the plus at the bottom of the picker to upload a custom font.

Font Style

Choose the weight or style variant of your selected font (e.g., Thin, Regular, Medium, Bold, Heavy). Available options depend on the font family you've selected.

Text Color

Set the color of your text. Clicking Text Color opens the Color Picker panel — see Color Picker below.

Horizontal Alignment

Align your text horizontally within its text box. Options: Left, Center, Right.

Vertical Alignment

Align your text vertically within its text box. Options: Top, Middle, Bottom.

Line Spacing

Adjust the spacing between lines of text. Range: .5 and 3

Letter Spacing

Adjust the spacing between individual characters. Range: -0.5 to 0.5

Type settings

Access additional typographic controls. Clicking Type settings opens a sub-panel with the following options:

• Decoration: bold, italic, underline
• List style: bullet or numbered lists
• Case: none, uppercase, lowercase, title case

Color Picker

The Color Picker opens when you click Text Color in the Text settings panel. Use it to change the color of your text.

Choose between:

• Other colors in the video: Select from colors already used elsewhere in your video.
• Theme colors: Colors from your Brand kit, if enabled.
• Base colors: Default Synthesia color palette.
• Base gradients: Default gradient color palette.

Custom colors

Click the edit color button to open the color selection window.

Solid color

Set a single color by:

• Using hex or HSL code, color finder, or dragging across the color spectrum
• Setting the opacity (0-100%)

Gradient colors

Apply a gradient across your text by:

• Selecting two colors using hex or HSL code, color spectrum, or color finder
• Setting opacity (0-100%) for each color
• Setting direction of gradient in degrees (e.g., 0°, 45°, 90°, 315°)The Color Picker opens when you click Use the color picker to change the color of your text in your scene. Chose between:

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Change all

If you click Change all after changing a color, Synthesia replaces ALL occurrences of that color by the new one across your whole video.