Text filled with a gradient can look contemporary and classic, or even ghastly and gaudy! It all depends on the type of gradients you use for yourtext. Look at the slide shown below in Figure 1. Notice that the gradient used for text on the top part of the slide has anunnecessary large number of colors that make it look too colorful. The gradient used for the text on the bottom part of the slide looks so muchbetter than conventional text filled with a solid color.

Figure 1: Two examples of gradient fills for text.

Rainbow Word Art Maker

Rainbow gradient or effect in Office, Word or PowerPoint 23 April 2020 A rainbow in Office is a custom gradient effect available for Shapes including WordArt borders and many elements in Word, PowerPoint and other Office programs for Windows or Mac. We have the exact colors, positions and options to use for a great rainbow. How to create online rainbow text. Here is the tool creating HTML rainbow text This tool generates multi-color text, VIBGYOR color format text, and random color text.

Colorful Word Art

There are some more guidelines that will help you create great looking gradient fills for your text:

Rainbow Text For Mac Word Count

How to create online rainbow text. Here is the tool creating HTML rainbow text This tool generates multi-color text, VIBGYOR color format text, and random color text. Type or paste a sentence or paragraph text in the text area. Maximum allowed 1000 characters. You can add text or an object as a hyperlink that opens a specific slide in a PowerPoint presentation or a custom slide show. You can also link to a Word document, an Excel workbook, a file, or an email address. Select the text or object that you want to make into a hyperlink.

• Gradient fills look great as text fills only when your text is fairly large sized.
• Using more colors in the gradient fill may make your text distracting.
• Try to use the gradient colors which contrast with the slide background.
• Also use gradient colors that are not too different so that you achieve a subtle merge of colors.

Follow these steps to learn how to apply a gradient fill to your text inPowerPoint 2010 for Windows:

Microsoft Word Rainbow Font

1. Select text to which you want to apply a gradient fill.Alternatively, if you just want to follow this tutorial step-by-step,insert a text box on a blank slide and type some text in it. Also,change the text font to something 'blockier',such as Arial Black (see Figure 2). Select the text, or the entire text box to bring up theDrawing Tools Format tab on the Ribbon as shown highlightedin red within Figure 2.
2. 
   Figure 2: Drawing Tools Format tab of the Ribbon
Note: The Drawing Tools Format tab is a Contextual tab. These tabs are special tabs in theRibbon that are not visible all the time; they only make an appearance whenyou are working with a particular slide object which can be edited using special options within these tabs.
2. Within the Drawing Tools Format tab, locate the WordArt Styles group. Then select theText Fill button that you can see highlighted in red within Figure 3.
3. 
   Figure 3: Text Fill button within WordArt Styles group
3. This opens the Text Fill drop-down gallery. In this drop-down gallery, select the Gradient option(highlighted in red within Figure 4) to open Gradient sub-gallery as shown inFigure 4 (highlighted in blue).
4. 
   Figure 4: Gradient sub-gallery
5. Let us explore the three options within Gradient sub-gallery:

No Gradient

6. This is the option you can use to change the gradient fill of the selected text to a solid fill.

Variations

7. Here are some preset gradient fill variations for your text. Just click on any of them to apply to the selected text.

More Gradients

8. This option allows you to create your own gradients. Selecting this option opens the Format Text Effectsdialog box. In this dialog box, make sure to select the Gradient fill radio button as shown in Figure 5.
9. 
   Figure 5: Gradient fill options within Format Text Effects dialog box
10. To learn more about the options within this dialog box, refer to theMore Gradients page. Although, the linked tutorialpertains to shapes, the concepts are similar enough except the Rotate with shape option, which is not availablefor Text fill.
4. Within the Gradient sub-gallery, click on the gradient type you want to use as a fill for your selected text. You can also editthe gradient further using the More Gradients option. Figure 6 shows the selected text with a gradient fill applied.
5. 
   Figure 6:Text with gradient fill applied
5. Remember to save your presentation often.