- By Design Bundles
- 12 Jul 2021
- 8 Mins
- Canva Tutorials
How to Animate Text in Canva
Learn how to animate text in this step by step Canva tutorial.
Aside from Canva text effects that we’ve discussed in this tutorial “How to Use Canva Text Effects”, another cool Canva feature is animated text effects. This feature gives life to your texts by making words appear on the screen in a particular manner and lets you create videos and GIFs.
For this tutorial, we've created an animated design with a text we're going to use to show the different animations. We've uploaded this Morgenlicht font from Font Bundles to Canva to use for our sample text in this tutorial.
In this tutorial, we’re going to show you how to use the different animation styles in Canva and discuss what each one does.
Step 1: Access animation
To access the animation feature, select/ highlight the text you want to animate, click the 3 dots in the toolbar for more options, then click the animate button. From the left panel, it will show you the different animation styles.
There are20 preset animation options that you just have to click to use. The first 13 options: block, typewriter, ascend, bounce, burst, roll, shift, skate, breathe, fade, pan, rise, and tumble are available to both Canva free and Canva pro users.
But the last 7 cooler animations: drift, stomp, tectonic, baseline, pop, neon, and scrapbook with the crown icon are only available to Canva pro accounts.
Step 2: Select and apply preferred animation
Just click the animation style option you like to apply.
Block
This style shows a rectangular block that dashes onto the screen and whiz away uncovering your text.
Typewriter
This animation mimics the way a typewriter types words showing each letter step by step from left to right.
Ascend
This animation shows the text moving up gently into position one word at a time.
Bounce
The bounce animation bounces your text like a ball.
Burst
This style reveals your text one letter at a time with a very subtle burst of each letter.
Roll
This style makes your text roll down one letter at a time like in a slot machine.
Shift
Shift animation is the opposite of the ascend style. Instead of moving up, it shows the text moving down gently into position.
Skate
Like a skating motion, this animation shows your text gliding sideways from right to left.
Breathe
This animation shows a very subtle text size change that the span of text appears to pulsate or breathe.
Fade
This style allows text to gradually appear on the page.
Pan
Pan is also a slide-in animation that uses a bit of a fade-in while sliding in from the left.
Rise
Rise is much like ascend, but the entire text moves up into position rather than one word at a time.
Tumble
Tumble makes your text roll across the screen starting on its head and falls into place right-side up.
Those are all the animations available for Canva free account.
Now let's go through the animations available to Canva pro users.
Drift
Drift makes your text glide in gently from left to right like it is being blown by the wind.
Stomp
Stomp animation shows your magnified text appearing from your point of view and suddenly crashing into the screen.
Tectonic
Tectonic animation makes the texts shift alternately from left to right, right to left motion.
Baseline
Baseline looks a lot like rise, except it’s much quicker.
Pop
With pop, the text suddenly appears by springing up then making a little wiggle.
Neon
Neon style looks like a flickering light struggling to turn on and off.
Scrapbook
With scrapbook, your text suddenly appears slanting in one direction, and then quickly tilting in another.
Step 3: Preview your animation
To see the animation play out, just watch the screen slowly or you can click the play button from the menu bar to be able to see the animations in action.
There you have it!20 cool text animations in Canva to spice up the text in your design.
For more Canva tutorials, check out our Canva Tutorials section at Design School.
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