Expressive Text: Create your own style

The plugin comes with preset styles, but if you want, you can easily create your own bespoke style to tightly match your vision. Here’s how to do it:

Begin by right clicking on the content browser, heading to the Expressive Text section and selecting Expressive Text Style asset.

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Make sure to use a suitable name since the asset name can be used to refer directly to the style later.

Creating a new Expressive Text Style asset

Open the newly created asset by double clicking it. This will prompt the Style Editor to show up — here you’ll be able to add different parameters to your style and personalize it to your liking. Things such as specifying a font, font color, reveal rate and animation, etc…

List of styling parameters available - image might not be up to date

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A more comprehensive list of parameters can be found on

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Parameters.

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If you want to add materials to your custom text style, we recommend reading the following page on how do it.

Now feel free to specify and adjust any number of parameters until you’re happy with the final result! Here’s an example of a style we made ourselves:

Example of a custom text style - It only takes a few minutes, from concept to delivery

Save your custom style! You can use it either as the default style for you expressive text, or use it with the style tag.

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Pro tip: You can use the light/dark background toggle and test how your custom text style might look in different scenarios!

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Pro tip 2: You can shrink the editor window to collapse the preview panel and only show the parameters list area. This lets you dock the window to the side and use it to tweak text already being shown in the editor viewport.

Using your custom style

Now that you’ve created your custom text style, you can choose two different ways to use it.

On a Expressive Text asset

Open the Expressive Text asset and assign a base style. Each text asset can have its own base style.

The base style selection field can be found under the text box on every Expressive Text asset.

As a Tag

You can also choose to use your custom text style as a tag, when styling your text.

Inheriting from other styles

Inheriting from other styles allows you to automatically share properties across styles, while adding or overwriting specific parameters that differentiate them.

This is how you can do it:

Have a parent style and add all the common parameters you want to be shared.

Have the child style inherit from the parent style by adding an entry to the list of Inherited Styles

The Inherited Styles category found on the Style editor

You can always redefine a previously set parameter.

Done! Now you can keep certain design elements consistent across all of your styles.

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Did you create a style you’re really proud of?