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  • Published 17 Jul 2025

Text Node for Compositor

A native way to add text directly onto images.

Core function

  • Text input field
  • Font selection from system fonts
  • Size, Color and basic formatting
  • Support for multi line text with spacing controls

Useful for

  • Information about the scene (Frame count, ViewLayer, FPS)
  • Adding basic Titles to an image (Watermarks, Titles, Credits)
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Development Status: Open

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kebabegott
17 Jul 2025

3 Comments

We agree this is a useful feature, but it's not high on the priority list yet: projects.blender.org/blender/blender/issues/143195

hermano

I feel that this is more a Video Sequencer type of tasks (Titles and such).

kebabegott Author

Yes, but the VSE keeps darkening my images and text even when the color space is right. The VSE and Compositor use different exposure settings from my understanding. Like if I render with -6 exposure, it looks fine in the Compositor, but in the VSE I have to set it back to 0 to match.

I've seen others run into the same thing and the only fix is manually tweaking gamma and exposure. Kinda messy. A simple text node in the Compositor would just make things way more convenient.

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