Shaped Text is a legacy text layer type, currently in Beta, that fills a built-in shape, a heart or a circle, with your text instead of laying it out along a straight line.

Adding a Shaped Text layer

Open the Text tool in the template editor's left sidebar and choose Shaped Text from the list of layer types.

Default layer

A new Shaped Text layer starts filled with placeholder copy already wrapped into the default Heart shape, so the effect is visible right away.

Shape

The Shape control switches between the two built-in shapes:

• Heart: wraps the text into a heart silhouette. At the top of the heart the text splits into two separate columns around the shape's notch before merging into a single column toward the point.
• Circle: wraps the text into a round silhouette instead, with lines widening toward the middle and narrowing at the top and bottom.

Switching from Heart to Circle reflows the same text into a noticeably different shape:

Unlike Spiral Text or Warp Text, Shaped Text has no Font, Color, Character Spacing, Stroke, or Shadow controls on the canvas toolbar. Its only canvas-level controls are Fit and Transform.

Transform

The Transform panel controls the layer's position, size, and rotation on the canvas. It works the same way here as it does on every other layer type.

Personalize text

Enabling this option lets the merchant's customer type their own text into the shape, instead of using the fixed placeholder copy. Checking it reveals a full set of fields:

• Label: the field name shown to the customer in the personalization form.
• Help text: optional guidance text shown under the field.

• Placeholder: example text shown inside the empty field.
• Max length: the maximum number of characters the customer can enter.
• Required: whether the customer must fill in this field before ordering.
• Move with bounding box: keeps the box frame fixed and lets the text move and resize inside it (double-click to edit the text).

• Is paragraph: switches the field to a multi-line textarea, for longer text inputs. This is particularly useful on Shaped Text, since filling a shape with a longer passage reveals its silhouette much more clearly than a short phrase does.
• Is numeric: restricts input to numbers only.
• Trim whitespace: removes leading and trailing spaces from the customer's input.
• Display swatches by characters: shows one swatch per character typed, rather than one swatch overall.
• Display layout swatches by text length: shows a different layout swatch depending on how much text the customer has entered.
• Text transform: automatically transforms the input case (for example, to uppercase).
• Custom regex: validates the input against a custom regular expression.

Personalize font

Enabling this option lets the customer choose their own font for the shaped text from a font library, the same folder-based picker documented in the Rainbow Text Personalization and Spiral Text articles.

Personalize with color palette

Enabling this option lets the customer pick the text's fill color from a predefined palette, rather than free-picking any color. The palette is built from a folder in the Colors asset library:

Selecting a folder reveals the full set of fields:

• Label: the field name shown to the customer.
• Required: whether the customer must pick a color before ordering.

• Values: the list of colors from the selected folder, shown to the customer as swatches.
• Folder: the Colors library folder the swatches are pulled from. Click it to replace it with a different folder.
• Display type: how the swatches are rendered to the customer (for example, as circles or squares).
• Add value: adds an extra color on top of the folder's contents.

Personalize with color picker

Unlike the palette option above, this lets the customer pick any color freely, rather than choosing from a predefined set:

• Label: the field name shown to the customer.
• Help text: optional guidance text shown under the field.

• Default color: the color pre-selected before the customer changes it.
• Required: whether the customer must confirm a color before ordering.

Shaped Text does not have a Personalize with stroke palette option, since the layer type has no Stroke control to begin with.

Updated on: 22/07/2026