Text Formatting

Every shape that contains text can be formatted independently — font, size, weight, color, alignment, and more — so your boards can reflect your organization's style and keep busy diagrams legible.

Entering Text Edit Mode

Double-click a shape's text to enter edit mode. The text becomes editable and the text formatting toolbar expands in the top toolbar with formatting options.

Press Escape or click outside the shape to exit edit mode.

Available Formatting

Font Style

Toggle buttons for:

• Bold

• Italic

• Underline

• Strikethrough

Font Family & Size

• Font — dropdown of available font families (the default font is set by your admin in Global Settings)

• Font Size — dropdown of available sizes

Text Color & Highlight

• Text Color — color picker for the text itself

• Highlight Text — color picker for the background behind the text

Alignment

• Horizontal — Align Left, Center, or Right

• Vertical — Align Top, Middle, or Bottom

Text Clipping

• Enable Text Clipping / Disable Text Clipping — controls what happens when text overflows the shape:

  • Clipping enabled — overflowing text is cut off at the shape boundary

  • Clipping disabled — text extends beyond the shape edges

Formatting Multiple Shapes at Once

Select multiple shapes (click + drag a selection, or Shift-click multiple shapes), then use the text formatting controls to apply changes to all of them. Each shape keeps its own text content but shares the new formatting.

Read-Only Mode

In presenter mode or when you're viewing a board without edit rights, the text formatting toolbar is hidden. You can still see the formatted text — you just can't change it.

When the Font Color Is Disabled

If your admin has enabled Improve Text Visibility in Global Settings, the font color option is disabled for shapes so text colors stay high-contrast against their backgrounds. Ask your admin to turn the setting off if you need per-shape color control.

Tips

• Use the default font for consistency across a board — mixing fonts often hurts readability.

• Combine alignment and clipping — if you're making compact cards, enable clipping with top-center alignment to keep titles from spilling over.

• Style once, repeat with Favorites — once a shape looks how you want, save it as a Favorite to reuse without reformatting.

• For bulk text fixes across many shapes, use the AI Text Adjust toolbar — it's faster than reformatting one shape at a time.

Related

• Shapes — shape-level properties (fill, border, size) that sit alongside text formatting

• Favorites — save a formatted shape as a reusable favorite

• AI Text Adjust — grammar, shortening, tone, and translation

• Global Settings — the admin-controlled default font and palette