Affinity Designer Text Frame Background Color

[Gloryfighter]

Hey there,

 

I've just started to use Affinity Designer. After Creating a Text Frame the background color of this appears in grey.

How can I change this background color of the Text Frame (not the Text Color) ?

 

Thank you,

Manuel Seitz

[Gloryfighter]

Hello there,

I just started to use Affinity Designer.

I inserted a Text Frame with the Text Frame Tool. The Background of this Text Frame now appears in light grey and the Text inside in black.

How can I change the so to speak background color of the Text Frame ?

 

Thank you,

Manu

[Pšenda]

Default is text with transparent background. Have you changed it in the Character panel? (second color rectangle). 

[GarryP]

I’ve not seen this before but it’s the second thread created in the last day that I have seen which mentions this.
Which version of Designer are you using and on which OS?
Does the grey colour fill the whole frame or is it just behind where the text is?
Have you tried using the Revert Defaults button on the Toolbar?

[Dan C]

@Gloryfighter 

Welcome to the forums

I have merged your 2 threads as they appear to be similar, I suspect following Garry's suggestion of using the Revert Defaults option will resolve this for you -

[Gloryfighter]

Thank you guys.

I couldn't test it because the file does no longer exist. 

As a workaround for me worked: Creating a new document (which oddly didn't have the "problem") and copy and paste my work to there and I continued to work in the new file.