Affinity designer text background colour

[tombro]

I have just typed some text and for some reason there's a background colour in the text box. I can't find anywhere to turn this off. I have spent around half an hour searching for something and read these forums where any solutions mentioned don't seem to work for me.

Appreciate any help, this was supposed to be a five minute job and I've spent nearly an hour on it.

Edit: I think I have found a bug as I've found the option, but the background is set to none anyway. Changing it to another colour works, but when I change I to none, it comes up in red. I will put on the bug forum.

[GarryP]

If you are using Publisher then you can select the layer and set the Fill of the Text Frame via the Text Frame Panel.

If you are using Photo or Designer then you will need to select the layer and press the “Revert Defaults” button on the toolbar, or use menu “Edit → Defaults → Revert”, and then re-format the text if you need to.

Note: I know you mentioned Designer in the title but this is information for anyone reading this thread.

Edited July 1, 2024 by GarryP
Added note.

[tombro]

Thank you so much! “Revert Defaults” was the only thing that would get rid of it!

[GarryP]

You’re welcome.

This is something that comes up quite often but I don’t think anyone has figured out a way to reproduce it to order so that Serif can investigate it further.

There seems to be ‘something’ in the software where, every now and again, it sets the background fill for a new Frame Text layer, even if the user has never set a background fill for any other Frame Text layers in the document.

This is a known issue though, and there have been requests for Serif to add the Frame Text layer to Designer (and Photo) as a better alternative to using “Revert defaults”.

[Blitz99]

How does one achieve this revert on ipad? All new text frames are picking up the erroneous background colour style. Why does this happen? The colour does not exist on the source text. Also, paste without format does not paste in plain text as might be expected.

[GarryP]

Go to the Help, type revert default into the search box (pressing Enter if necessary).
Then clicking on the link for “Object defaults” will take you to a page which will tell you.