Text in Formo

Real, editable text, not a flattened label baked in the moment you type it. Every property stays live, and the whole thing can become vector geometry later if you need to animate or reshape individual letterforms.

Creating and editing text

Creating a text object. Select the Text tool from the toolbar, or press T, then click on the canvas and start typing.

What you can adjust, once selected:

- Font family: covered in full in the next section.

- Font size.

- Text align and vertical align: horizontal and vertical alignment, in one combined control.

- Line height: spacing between lines of a multi-line text block.

- Letter spacing: the gap between individual characters.

- Bold, Italic, Strikethrough: covered in section 4.

Every one of these stays live and editable for as long as the text object exists; nothing is committed irreversibly just by typing.

Fonts — browse and search Google Fonts

The font picker gives you direct, searchable access to the full Google Fonts catalog, not a short built-in list.

Opening it. Click the font-family field, and a dropdown opens with a search box at the top.

Searching. Type into the search box to filter the catalog live.

Live preview, per row. Each font in the list renders its own name in its own typeface. You're seeing the real font rendered before you commit to picking it.

Using your own licensed font

Beyond the open Google Fonts catalog, Formo supports bringing in a font you hold your own license for. Once added, a licensed font is available the same way any catalog font is — selectable from the same font-family field, usable across your document.

How this differs from the Google catalog under the hood. A Google Fonts family is served openly to anyone, no login required. A licensed font you bring in yourself is stored differently: tied specifically to your account, so the entitlement to use it travels with you rather than being publicly servable the way an open-license font is.

Bold, italic, and font weight

Three simple style toggles sit right next to the font picker: B (Bold), I (Italic), and S (Strikethrough). Click any one to toggle it on or off for the current selection.

Weight beyond simple bold. Many font families carry more than just a normal and a bold variant: light, medium, semibold, black, and more, each a distinct typeface file rather than a synthetically thickened version of the regular weight. Where a family offers these, they're available as part of selecting that font, so you get the designed weight rather than a faked one.

Converting text to editable vector shapes

Once you need to reshape or animate individual letterforms rather than treat text as a block, you can outline it.

How to do it. Right-click a text object and choose Flatten to vector (referred to elsewhere as "Outline text" in other tools, same idea).

What happens. Every glyph's outline (the letterform shapes) becomes editable vector geometry, the same kind of object a hand-drawn or pen-built shape would be. From that point on, it's no longer "text" in the sense of an editable string; it's a static shape built from what the text used to say.

Why you'd do this. Once outlined, individual letters can be reshaped, animated independently, have effects or shader fills applied per-letter, or be edited with the pen tool the same as anything else — none of which is possible while it's still live, re-flowable text.