Working with Text

Advanced Text Settings

Within Advanced Text Settings pop-up panel you can find a bunch of to tools to enhance your typography in Gravit Designer Pro.

As with other text properties, its options have almost self-explanatory interface.

To bring up the panel:

1. Select the text to foster the  Text Appearance Panel
2. Head over to the small icon on the top-right of the Appearance Panel opposite to the appearance label.
   

Advanced Text Panel would pop-up after clicking on the icon. This panel is divided into three sections:

1. Typography(1) section to add special treatment to the text
2. Text Transform(2) section
3. List Type(3) dropdown
4. Paragraph(4) section to control the paragraph attributes.

Typography Settings

Use options under the Typography section to add special effects to the text:

1. Select Subscript(1) to set the selected text below the baseline
   
2. Select the Superscript(2) to set the selected text above the ascender line.
   
3. Select the Ligature(3) to make the ligatures available for the specific typeface.
   
   Note: ligature is a special character that combines two glyphs into the single glyph. It reduces the tension of the narrow white space and vanishes unattractive inclinations between two colliding letters, such as ff, fl, fi for Raleway Regular in the example above
4. Select Fractions(4) to apply special fraction style, created by the type designer.
   

Transform settings

Use options in this section to change the letter case of the selected text.

1. Select Uppercase(1) to convert all letters to capitals.
2. Select Capitalize(2) to convert the first letter of each word to capitals.
3. Select Lowercase(3) to convert all letters to lower case.
4. Select Small Caps(4) to make small caps from the selected text.

Working with Lists

To master design you should know how to orginize data to benefit the user.Ordered lists can be a viable option here. You can use them to arrange, enumerate or emphisize the information.

Lists work so well, that most of the experts consider them as an essential part of the landing and squeeze page design.

Gravit Designer supports two types of lists:

1. Bulleted(1) with all kinds of geometrical shapes to mark down the start of the paragraph
2. Numbered(2) with arabic numerals

To apply one of them to the selected text, head over to List Type dropdown to bring up a panel with three options in each category.

Once applied Gravit would display the type of list in the dropdown field.

Expand it again to see which of the numbered list options is applied to the selected text passage.

Click None if you want to clear the formating.

List items

Gravit renders the list in the way traditional reach text editor does:

1. Click Enter to create a new list item
   
2. Click  / SHIFT + Enterto start a new paragraph withing current list item
   
3. Click Tab to create a nested list item. Click Enter to start a list item on the same level
   
   Click  / SHIFT + Tab to return to the level of the parent.
   

In Gravit you can have infinite number of nested list items

Finally, to end the list you need to press double Enter or   just once.

Paragraph Features

Paragraph section contains two text field to adjust the spacing between paragraphs of the selected block of text:

1. Indent(1)
2. Spacing After(2)

Type a specific number or use the        to change the values inside the fields.

Indent

Set a numerical value to introduce a space at the beginning of each the selected paragraphs.

Spacing After

Type a numerical value to add additional vertical space between the selected paragraph and the next one.

Language

Allows you to apply language-specific glyph alternatives to text. Those are also known as Localized forms in fonts (locl).

Example: Both text lines in the image below are using the same font. The top line uses the default language, the bottom line is set to “Bulgarian”. Alternative characters are colorized for clarity.

You can change the Language of the text box (or text selection) in the Advanced Text Properties dialog.

Stylistic sets