29. Create shapes with text

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29. Create shapes with text

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Instagram Stories has several different fonts, meaning you have several different ways to customize your story content. So play around with different symbols and fonts to create eye-catching captions to your Stories.

A screenshot of an Instagram story using text to create shapes
For example, the Instagram Story above likely uses enlarged m-dashes (—) as decoration and a backdrop to a snippet of text. The overall look and feel of these decorations will change depending on which font you use.

The asterisk can be used as stars or snowflakes, and periods can be blown up to create large dots. Just be conscious of overdoing it with extra characters–similar to what we mentioned about hong kong mobile database special bio fonts in hack #12, screen readers may interpret these as individual text characters and create confusion for those relying on them to interpret your content.

30. Create ombré or rainbow text
Decorate your Instagram stories by creating ombré or rainbow text. This is a fun effect, but you need to practice it a few times because it can be hard to master.

A screenshot showing ombré and rainbow text in an Instagram story
Once you write your text using the font of your choice, select all of it, or the words you want to ombré/rainbow. Then you need to use one finger to hold the words you’ve selected and the other finger to hold down on the color you want to start with.

Pro tip: This order is important. You must hold your text before touching the colors or else this won’t work.
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