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Understanding the Position Text Option Group in Divi 5

Learn how to use the Position Text options to style and format the Person module's position text, ensuring they remain visually integrated.

The Position Text design options let you customize the appearance of the Position text displayed in modules such as the Person module. These settings control the typography, alignment, spacing, and effects for the Position, helping you maintain a cohesive design.

Divi 5 - Position Text Option Group

Where to Find the Position Text Options

  1. Open the Person module Settings: Click the gear icon or the module itself to access the settings.

  2. Navigate to the Design Tab: Locate the Position Text option group.

Position Text Customization Settings

  1. Position Font: Choose a font from the dropdown or upload a custom font for unique styling.

  2. Position Font Weight: Adjust the boldness of your Position with options like light, bold, or extra-bold.

  3. Variable Font Options: those options will only be available if you are using a Google variable font such as Robo, Google Sans Flex, or Bitcount):

    • Variable Font Weight: Use the slider or type in a numeric value for the font weight.

    • Optical Sizing: Enable automatic optical size handling.

    • Variable Font Width: Fine-tune variable font width using variable font interpolation.

    • Variable Font Slant: Fine-tune variable font slant using variable font interpolation.

    • Variable Font Crsv: Fine-tune variable font crsv using variable font interpolation.

    • Variable Font Element Shape: Fine-tune variable font element shape using variable font interpolation.

    • Variable Font Element Expansion: Fine-tune variable font element expansion using variable font interpolation.

    • Variable Font Rond: Fine-tune variable font rond using variable font interpolation.

    • Variable Font Grade: Fine-tune variable font grade using variable font interpolation.

    • Variable Font Width: Fine-tune variable font width using variable font interpolation.

  4. Position Text Size: You can adjust the font size of your Position text using the slider or by entering a specific value. It also accepts Global Variables.

  5. Position Text Color: Choose a color to be used for the Position text. It also accepts Global Variables.

  6. Position Line Height: Set the space between the lines of the Position text, helping to improve readability. It also accepts Global Variables.

  7. Position Letter Spacing: Control the space between letters by adjusting the slider or entering a value. It also accepts Global Variables.

  8. Position Text Alignment: Set the alignment for the Position text—left, center, right, or justified.

  9. Position Capitalization: Choose the Position text's capitalization:

    1. Uppercase - All letters are in uppercase format

    2. Capitalize - Makes the first letter of each word uppercase.

    3. Lowercase - All letters are in lowercase format.

    4. Smallcaps - Lowercase letters display as smaller uppercase letters.

    5. All Small Caps - all letters display as small caps, including letters that were already uppercase.

  10. Position Font Style: Select additional font styles, including:

    • Italic: Makes the text lean to the right.

    • Underline: Adds a line under the text.

    • Overline: adds a line above the text.

    • Strikethrough: draws a line through the middle of the text.
      ⚠️ Note: When Underline, Overline, and/or Strikethrough are enabled, you can also choose:

      • Line Color: Choose the line's color. It also accepts Global Variables.

      • Line Thickness: Choose how thick or slim the line is.

      • Line Type: Choose the Line's type:

        • Solid

        • Double

        • Dotted

        • Dashed

        • Wavy

  11. Position Line Warp Style: Choose how text should wrap. Default keeps native browser wrapping, Balanced evens heading lines, and Pretty helps avoid single-word endings.

    • Default: Text can move onto a new line when it runs out of space.

    • Balanced: Short text breaks into lines with more even lengths

    • Pretty: Text wrap in a cleaner, more visually pleasing way

  12. Position Text Direction: Choose text flow direction. Standard Horizontal reads left-to-right across lines, while vertical modes stack glyphs top-to-bottom.

    1. Standard Horizontal

    2. Vertical (right to left): The text is displayed from top to bottom, and each new line starts to the left of the previous one.

    3. Vertical (left to right): The text is displayed from bottom to top, and each new line starts to the left of the previous one.

  13. Position Hyphenation: When enabled, if a word is too long to fit nicely on one line, the browser can break it into parts and add a hyphen at the break.

  14. Position Fill Type: Choose the Position's text fill options:

    • None - No Position text fill.

    • Gradient - Fill the Position text with a Gradient

    • Image - Fill the Position text with an Image

    • Transparent - Fill the Position text with a transparent fill.

  15. Position Stroke Width - Choose the thickness of the stroke.

    • Position Stroke Color - Choose the Position text's stroke color.

  16. Position Columns: Set how many columns the text should flow through.

  17. Position Text Shadow: Add a text shadow effect and customize its direction, blur, and color to add depth or emphasis to the Position:

    • Direction: Adjust horizontal and vertical placement.

    • Blur: Control how soft or sharp the shadow appears.

    • Color: Set a shadow color to complement the text.

Tips for Using Position Text Option Group Option

  • Ensure Clarity: Use bold fonts and sufficient spacing to make the image's Position text easy to read.

  • Highlight Interaction: Apply contrasting colors or subtle text shadows to draw attention to the image's Position text.

  • Stay Consistent: Align the image's Position text style with the rest of your module design, including fonts and colors.

  • Test Across Devices: Preview on various screen sizes to ensure alignment and readability.

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