Adding Text, Extruding Text and Changing Text Style in Blender

In this post we are going to learn about adding the text in blender. There are some things that you have to keep in mind. I will tell you these on the way of adding text in blender, whenever its needed. So lets get started.

Setting default font folder in Blender

If you are going to add text in your scene in blender you would probably need to change the font of the text. For changing font of the text object in blender there is no easy way. To make it a little easier you have to set user preferences in the blender, cause you cannot directly choose font for text object in blender from a drop down list. You have to choose the font from the folder. So first set the font folder from the user preferences. To change the user preferences go to file menu and then click on user preferences, or just press Ctrl + Alt + U

Now in the user preferences go to the file tab. Here you can set the default folders. Set your default font folder here by browsing to it or directly entering the path. Usually default font folder for Windows is “C:\Windows\Fonts”. After setting the path click on Save User Settings.

Adding Text in Blender

Now you are all set, just press Shift + A inside the viewport and choose Text. A text object will be added to your scene. See! that is so easy, but you don't want that, you will live happily ever after if you see your name written there instead of Text.

Editing Text in Blender

To edit the text in blender you just follow the same method as for other objects, just press Tab. Just like the other text editors a cursor will appear in the viewport with the text. You can press backspace to delete the Text and type whatever you want. After typing just press Tab to return to the object mode.

There are two more things that you probably want to know

• How to make text thick in Blender
• How to change font of Text object in Blender

You have noticed that the Text you have added has no thickness at all, its just like plane. May be this is not what you wanted. So to add thickness to the text, you have to increase the amount of extrude property of the text object. To do that just open the Text properties tab, its just right beside the Add modifiers tab. Now in the geometry section increase the amount of extrude.

Changing font of the Text in Blender

To change the font of the text go to the Font section of Text properties. Now you have to brows to the font file you want to apply. By default the Bfont is applied.

If you have already set the User Preferences and saved the default font folder then clicking on open will open the font folder.

And one more thing, You have to open all file of a font if you want to use all styles for example Font Arial's Regular in Regular, Bold in Bold, Italic in Italic etc. But its not necessary to open all file, if you want to use only Bold style then only open bold style file. By default the regular style is applied.

After opening the files you can access them from drop down list.

Now After opening text file press Tab in the viwport to go to edit mode while the text object is selected. Now select the written text by pressing Sift + Right/Left Arrow depend on the position of your text cursor.

Now choose the style from tools menu.

That's it. Now you know how to Add Text in Blender, Adding thickness to Text in blender and changing font and font style of text object in blender. And here is a tip for you, you can bevel the text object's edges by increasing the bevel amount, which is placed side by side the extrude. Bye for now and Happy Blending :)