How to make text instagram posts
How to Post Text on Instagram Using Create Mode
- You can post a text-only image on Instagram by accessing the "Create Mode" in Instagram stories.
- From there, you'll be able to create images with text, with access to other creative tools like gifs and stickers.
- Once created, you can either save the image for use as a regular post, or simply post it to your stories.
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If you've ever seen text-only images on other people's Instagram stories or or posts, you may have wondered exactly how they made those. Are those images made by a third-party app? Or are they something you can do within Instagram?
The answer is text-only images are actually a built-in, if not immediately obvious, feature on the platform. You just have to know where to find it.
Here's how to post images with text on Instagram, either in a story or a post.
How to post a text-only image on Instagram using Create Mode
1. Open the Instagram app on your phone.
2. Tap the camera icon in the top-left corner of the home screen.
Use the camera icon to generate a story text post. Devon Delfino/Business Insider3. Slide the bottom toolbar from "Normal" until you see "Create."
Select "Create" mode by sliding the bottom menu bar. Devon Delfino/Business Insider4.
Tap the screen to add your text. If needed, you can cycle through different font options by tapping the top middle button, or change the size via the slide bar on the left-hand side. When completed to your liking, click "Next"
5. You'll now be able to edit your text image as you would normally do with a story. Another helpful hint: You can tap the colorful circle toward the top-left side of the screen to change the background color.
Edit your story image to post to "Your Story" or save it to your camera roll.
Devon Delfino/Business Insider 6. When the text and image is to your liking, you can either tap the "Send to" button to add it to your stories, or select the "Save" icon at the top of the screen to save it to your phone's camera roll.
If you save the image, you will be able to see and select it when you go through the usual posting process for a standard grid post.
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Text posts have emerged in popularity on Instagram as a way to share funny tweets/written jokes, forge an aesthetic around fonts and words, or reveal a complex thought. Even though a picture is worth a thousand words, sometimes you want to write out exactly what you mean.
In this article, I’ll show you 3 methods to create an Instagram text post with standard, cool, and fancy text. I describe three different approaches to making text posts for Instagram:
- Customize text post with Kapwing
- Screenshot text
- Use Instagram Story tool
Method 1: Create Text Post Using Kapwing
Kapwing is an online tool that allows you to create and customize images and videos.
Go to Kapwing homepage and click "Start Editing". If you have a video/photo you want to use as a background, upload it. Otherwise click "Start with a blank canvas."
Kapwing defaults to a white, square canvas. Change the size and background color of the canvas by using the tools in the right-hand column (or tap "Edit background" if you're using your phone). You can make it 1:1 for Instagram or 9:16 for your Story. You can also enter a custom hex code if you want to make the text or the background match your brand kit.
Click "Text" in the main toolbar to add a text layer to the text post. Tap the text to edit it and type any words or message you'd like to say. You can add multiple text layers and position them relative to each other.
Change the styling of the text using the options in the action panel. You can pick from a library of hundreds of fonts or upload a custom font. It's also possible to change the alignment and line height, bold/italicize, add a background color, and resize the text boxes.
You can select font, fill color, outline color, and paragraph style. Move the text layers on the canvas to create a custom design.
Kapwing's Studio has other design tools to explore. To make your post into an animated text video, browse the library of text effects and animations. Creators can add background shapes, fill colors, and images to emphasize your text. Add line height and drag and drop to position the text where you want it. Check out the variety of shape options available.
You can convert a text post into the video by going to the Timeline. In Timeline, pick the length or duration you want for the output video and time out your text. Then, delay your text so that it appears and disappears.
If your text post is a video you can add animations to your text and add audio using the audio tool in the bottom panel.
You can also choose to make a GIF text post by going to Settings and choosing to output as GIF. Here's an example text post I made with a fade animation and a GIF background.
When you are happy with your text post, click the red "Export" button in the corner. Your image will then be ready to download and post on Instagram.
If you're not signed into a Kapwing account, sign in or sign up using your Google or Facebook account – once you've signed into a Kapwing account, the watermark in the lower right corner will be removed from your final image.
Method 2: Screenshotting Text
You can use any number of apps to write out text, including Notes, Tumblr, or Twitter and then screenshot them to create an image. Screenshots from Notes, iMessage, Facebook Messenger, and Twitter are popular on Instagram, especially for meme makers.
Example text posts from InstagramTo screenshot your screen…
- …on Android: press and hold power button and volume down at the same time
- …on old iPhones: press the side button and the home button at the same time
- …on new iPhones: press the side button and volume up button at the same time
Once you take a screenshot, it’s saved to your camera roll.
You can then upload the image to Instagram from your phone and crop or filter the picture.
Method 3: Create Text Post in Instagram
You can use the story feature of Instagram to create text posts. Instagram has some good built in features for creating images. Click the camera in the top left corner of the screen to start and select text from the options.
Add your text by scrolling the bottom panel to the left and clicking. When you are happy with your text click the minimal arrow.
Play with the different setting options to get different background colors or stickers for your image. You can also add a photo/image as a background for your text post.
When you are happy with your post click Add to Story. You can then save your post from your story and delete it by clicking the three dots.
Thanks for reading!
If you make a cool text post, share it with us on social media @kapwingapp! For more ideas, tutorials, and features, check back in at the Kapwing Resources page or our YouTube channel.
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How to work with text on Instagram
Dedicated to lovers of longreads. Lessons in editorial hygiene on Instagram*.
Editorial hygiene - text design with headings, bullets, paragraphs, pull-ins, color and other layout elements.
Instagram* does not provide layout tools, but this does not mean that the text should be written randomly. The basic task of an SMM manager on Instagram* is to be able to typeset unformatted text. After all, it is always more pleasant to read a post divided into paragraphs, highlighting the important, and not to wade through the jungle of a single canvas (as if you are looking at a check in a store). nine0003
For minimal formatting, only text, empty lines, and special characters with emoji are needed. It seems to be simple, but few people can write normal text on Instagram* using only these tools.
As a result, we get the following extremes:
Signatures in the style of "write on nails." Minimalism is not always good, even in Insta text Text as a single canvas, without a hint of editing and layoutThese extremes are easy to avoid. The articles “What to write when there is nothing to write” and “30 ideas for an Instagram post*” on the SMMplanner blog will help get rid of the first extreme. And to get rid of the extreme of the second, read the simple tricks in our article. nine0003
Paragraph division
The first task of any text is to divide it into paragraphs. One paragraph should contain one new thought. We declare the topic at the beginning, develop it inside the paragraph.
It's good if a paragraph takes 5-9 lines on a mobile phone screen. A paragraph longer than 12 lines may seem overloaded.
It is customary to start paragraphs with an empty line. Merged paragraphs can be perceived as one sheet. Many beat lines on Instagram * using special characters.
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turning it into a sheet. To prevent this from happening, remove all spaces on the last line of a paragraph, and if you are writing from an iPhone, add an "invisible" space.
You can hit lines in SMMplanner. To do this, remove all spaces after the period on the last line of the paragraph.
Did you find where the unnecessary space was hidden?Headings and sections
Instagram* usually doesn't break text into sections. But by separating a few paragraphs of one topic from another, prices from hashtags and from body text, you make it easier for the reader to find the right thought.
In electronic correspondence, it is customary to put a heading at the beginning of the section, two empty lines before the heading, and one after the heading. On Instagram * you can’t beat off two empty lines, they will merge into one. Therefore, you can beat off with the help of special characters. nine0003
Don't overdo it, extra headings pollute the text.
Read more about captions and photo caption rules in the article "Instagram Caption*" on the SMMplanner blog.
By the way, did you notice three dots in the photo above instead of empty lines? This is sometimes done when they do not know how to put an empty line. You can, of course, put one dot, but three dots seem to be supposed to say "it was intended." nine0003 When you want to retreat more, but you don't know how, dots and strange stripes appear. This is often what creative people do when they want to urgently show something to the world, but there is no time for high-quality editing of a post
Lists and examples
Instagram* does not have listing tools.
But lists help to make the structure of the text convenient, to place accents, and to avoid repetitions. What you can do:
→ Highlight lists with a dash, arrow, or emoji.
→ Before the examples, put a keyword, the main idea of all of the following.
If the examples are short, they can not be separated by blank lines. nine0003 It is better to separate long examples in Insta text with empty lines
Highlight individual words or phrases
You can force the reader to focus on the right things in a long text by highlighting a word or phrase. When you open a post, run through it with your eyes and see, for example, a highlighted word, a desire immediately arises to find out what the author wrote so important there.
You can select:
- by selecting a separate paragraph for the phrase; nine0112 write the word in CAPITAL letters;
- make a word bold;
- ;ʟɔʞǝʟ qʟʎнdǝʚǝdǝп
- p̲o̲d̲ch̲e̲r̲k̲n̲u̲v ̲t̲e̲k̲s̲t̲;
- mirror text;
- y♥k♥r♥a♥sh♥a♥t♥e♥l♥b♥s♥t♥v♥a♥m♥i♥;
- ̶p̶e̶r̶e̶ch̶e̶r̶k̶n̶u̶v̶ ̶t̶e̶k̶s̶t̶.
Of course, not all extraction techniques are suitable for permanent use. Decorating the text with hearts will only be appropriate in posts about Valentine's Day or about your wedding. Sites and programs can only highlight words in bold in Latin. nine0003
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The most common use of strikethrough text. They are given a joke, a denial of what was said, an intentional mistake. Online retailers may use strikethrough text to write the old price.
Instagram* does not provide tools for creating such effects. Special sites, programs, bots will help you. There are many of them, but the vast majority work only with the Latin alphabet. nine0003
Spectrox.ru
Site page for text strikethrough. Nothing superfluous4txt.ru
Website for creating text with 4 different effectsStylishtextgenerator
Website with beautiful fonts and embellishments. Fonts predictably only for Latin@text4instabot
By typing the name of the chatbot in Telegram in the search, with the help of simple but mandatory actions, you will get your text with paragraphs, indents, text in the center and bold words. The latter, however, again only for Latin@StHbot
Another telegram bot for crossing out, emphasizing and turning text Space App Store Google Play , can do it. Links do not work on Instagram*. At all. No way. The likelihood that someone will go to the web version of Instagram* to follow your link is close to zero. nine0003 If you want to direct the reader to an account link, you need to send it to the profile description. Before sending a person to the profile description, explain where the link leads. Where, what, does the reader understand why to click? Include a mention of your account at the end of a paragraph. We can apply all this when planning posts on Instagram* using SMMplanner. Readers will decide whether your text is interesting, important or so-so after reading it. Now you know how to make text on Instagram* beautiful and readable. And you will learn how to write 8 different types of posts at the master class MK "Selling posts on Instagram *". The article has been updated. First published November 28, 2017 Why bother with text design on Instagram? After all, you can just take beautiful photos. If you run a commercial account, and your goal is to attract customers and make sales, then photos alone are indispensable. Beautifully designed text is easier to read, attracts attention, reveals the essence of the photo, arouses interest. The text can encourage followers to follow your account, make a purchase, tell others about you and your business, or at least be active on your profile. nine0003 Advertising: 2VtzqwCpaPT In this article, we will give tips on how best to style the text under the photo on Instagram so that it works for you and helps to attract customers. Read also : 10 services for masslooking on Instagram Here are some tips that will allow you to beautifully format text on Instagram. Do not write a canvas of text, divide it into paragraphs, so it is much easier to perceive information. nine0003 If you are too lazy to edit the text manually, you can use the Telegram bot Text4InstaBot . The text must be divided into ordinary paragraphs in advance, then the bot will be able to divide them into “invisible” paragraphs that will be correctly displayed on Instagram (if you just throw the text even with paragraphs on Instagram, you still get a canvas). If this is not done, a warning will pop up from the bot. Visually finished texts do not differ, but you need to copy exactly the one sent by the bot. nine0003 In addition to dividing the text into paragraphs, the bot can align it in the center, underline and strikethrough words. You can also use any delayed posting service for Instagram, where there is text decoration. If there is no desire to waste time on a bot or services, there is an option for the lazy - to separate paragraphs with dots. Do not try to cram all the advantages of your product into one post, take some narrow topic and dedicate a specific post to it. The structure itself must also have logic: Emoji help organize text and evoke certain emotions in readers. Yes, and just make the text bright. But use emoticons carefully and to the point - emoji stuck in different parts of the text without logic and meaning, on the contrary, are annoying. Like too many of them, the post is full of bright colors, which makes it difficult to perceive the text itself. nine0003 Good use of emoji in text : Example of bad use of emoji in text : 
and simple lists Links
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here is a link to book Download the book by clicking
on the link in my profile @moi_akkaunt Let's summarize
In order for the text to be read and not scrolled, follow the following simple rules:
How to make beautiful text for Instagram: +16 examples of text design in posts
Secrets of text design on Instagram
1. Divide the text into paragraphs
We find and open the bot in the messenger, click "Run". 2. Cover 1 topic under 1 photo
For example, you held an event, released a new product, and are preparing for a competition - write your own text for each topic. nine0003
3. Use Emoji
in the form of list icons or items with numbers. As in this picture:
With them, even large text is easy to read and you can note the most important points for yourself.
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5. Use hashtags correctly
We have repeatedly written that the canvas of hashtags no longer works - they can be regarded by Instagram algorithms as spam and visually look ugly. In addition, an overly long list of hashtags distracts attention from the text itself. Choose 3-5 most important post tags.
Read more : How to use hashtags on Instagram to promote
6. Use calls to action
This does not mean a call to buy something from you, it can be a phrase or a question that will provoke discussion in the comments. Activity in the comments will affect the reach and promotion of the account as a whole. In Instagram texts, write a call to action at the end of the post.
If you encourage subscribers to go to the site or write to you in instant messengers, then send their profile, where there are all these contacts. Or make a multilink.
7. Use Headings
By default, Instagram does not have a caption and subtitle feature.
The title can be visually highlighted using capslock, emoticons, dashes, symbols. The title will help identify the topic of the post and grab attention.
Also, you can make a title in the form of an inscription on the photo.
8. Add text to the carousel
Sometimes the texts are very large and you don't want to divide them into several posts. And the number of characters in an Instagram post, as you know, is limited - 2200 characters, including spaces. nine0003
If you want to finish your thought, but the text no longer fits, you can place it in the form of photos following the main photo. At the end of the post, leave the call "Read the continuation in the carousel."
9. Strikethrough text on Instagram
Periodically, you can post posts with strikethrough text to show an ambivalent attitude towards something or leave an understatement in the text. Such a function is available in the Text4InstaBot Telegram bot and the Spectrox application.
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How to make strikethrough text on Instagram using the Text4InstaBot bot :
Run the bot and throw text there. Strikethrough words should be separated on both sides by three hyphens, like this: “Write texts as if you are communicating — not with clients, but — with friends.” Then we copy the finished text and paste it into the post.
How to strikethrough text in Spectrox :
There are only 2 windows on the site. In the left, insert the words or phrases that need to be crossed out and press >>. nine0003
The finished piece will be copied and pasted into the post.
10. Mentioning the profile in the text
In the text of an Instagram post, you cannot leave a clickable link to the site, but you can leave a link to the profile. You can create a separate advertising account or several accounts with the necessary links in the profile header. And redirect subscribers there by mentioning the profile in the text - @secondacc.
In this case, you do not have to touch the main account.
Mentioning profiles in a post is more used to advertise other people's accounts, but do not underestimate the potential of this feature in terms of promoting your own.
11. Contacts at the end of the post
You can leave your contacts right in the text of the post, then people will not have to look for them in the profile. But this option is not suitable for everyone.
12. Hashtag in the text
A couple of hashtags can be hidden in the body of the post as part of a sentence. They are well perceived by readers, while fulfilling their main function. nine0003
Tips for styling texts in stories
Stories have a very weak text editor by default. Apparently, because this function was originally conceived for creating video content, i.e. a lot of text there is simply useless. What can be done:
- Use text stickers . Yes, it's not unique, but stickers still attract attention.
Keep an eye out for new ones and immediately use them in your stories.
- Use color editing . For example, highlight the most important word in the text.
By the way, you can use not only the suggested colors, but also choose the desired shade in the palette yourself. To do this, you need to hold down a specific color. - Make 3D text . In stories there is no function that allows you to make a voluminous text, you have to go for a trick. Write a word and fill it with a color, for example, black. Then write this word again and fill it with a different color. Make an overlay of one word on another, but with a slight offset, so that it looks like a 3D effect. nine0025
- Add background for text . To do this, click on the button A in the upper left corner.
If you don't have enough standard text settings for stories, you can use social media post builders like Canva and Crello.
