Interface and Basics

Text Basics

Add and edit Text content in crisp vector format. Move and resize your Text box, and convert the results to raster graphics to add to your artwork.

Add Text

Add Text to your document with a tap.

Expand your top toolbar by tapping the ellipsis icon. Now, tap Actions (wrench ) → Add → Add Text.

A bounding box containing the word Text will appear on your canvas. The text appears in your currently selected color, and uses Procreate Pocket’s default font, Helvetica Neue.

Edit Text

Use the Keyboard to type into your Text box.

When you add new Text to your canvas, the word Text is already highlighted and ready to type over.

Double tap your text to select, cut, copy or paste it.

To select a font style and further adjust your text’s design and attributes, double tap your Text and then Edit Style, this will invoke the Edit Style Panel.

Click here to find out more about the Edit Style Panel .

Move Text

Move your Text and resize the bounding box around it.

To move your Text, drag the active bounding box around the canvas. You can drag outside of the bounding box to move it - you don't have to drag from within the box itself.

While Text remains in vector mode (see below), it can sit off the edge of the canvas without being cut off.

Resize Text Box

To widen or shrink your Text box, drag the blue nodes on either side of the bounding box.

Resizing your Text box will only change the shape of the container. It won't change the shape or size of the text inside the box.

If you make the bounding box narrower than the text inside, the text will break onto multiple lines.

Vector Text vs Raster Text

Keep your Text in crisp editable vector form for basic edits. Rasterize it into a pixel-based image to create more complex effects.

Vector Text can resize up and down without loss of quality. Vector also lets you retype and change the Text box with no quality loss.

To use certain Procreate Pocket tools, you must rasterize your Text. Rasterizing turns text into pixel data that you can paint on, distort, merge and more.

Using Vector Text you can:

1. Type in new text content

2. Change font, style, spacing and alignment

3. Scale uniformly using Transform without losing detail (interpolating)

4. Add underline, outline, and capitalization effects

Using Vector or Raster Text you can:

1. Move your Text around

2. Make uniform Transformations

3. Change opacity

4. Add Clipping Masks and Layer Masks

5. Group Text with other layers

Using Raster Text you can:

1. Use any other Procreate Pocket function on it, including Selections, Transformations, Adjustments and Merging

In Layers, you can identify vector Text by the ‘A’ visible in the Text layer thumbnail. The layer name will also automatically change to reflect its Text content.

To rasterize your text, tap the Text layer in Layers. This invokes the Layer Options menu, where you can tap Rasterize.