Design controls

Design controls help you refine the look of a carousel after generation.

Available controls depend on the slide type and template, but the editor supports format changes, slide-level adjustments, global settings, and element-level edits.

Slide format

Use the format control when you need a different output size. The editor uses the selected format when previewing and exporting.

Slide and element controls

Depending on the selected slide or element, you can adjust settings such as:

• Text content.
• Position and sizing.
• Backgrounds.
• Layout and spacing.
• Visual elements.
• Button treatment, size, corners, borders, and colors when the selected block supports button styling.

Make design changes after the message is clear. It is easier to polish a strong deck than to rescue a confusing one with styling.

Color controls now use a shared picker across the editor. Depending on the control, you can enter a hex value, adjust opacity, use the visual picker, or choose colors detected from the current slide and carousel.

Selected text can use custom colors instead of only fixed preset swatches. When a text selection is active, the editor can also apply inline highlight, font, size, weight, bold, italic, underline, or clear-formatting changes to just that selection.

Inline highlights are rendered as connected highlight shapes on the canvas and in export views, so multi-word or wrapped highlights look like one continuous mark instead of disconnected blocks.

For supported remix blocks, the properties panel can also change block text, background color, and border color without regenerating the slide.

Add and style blocks

Open Blocks to add text, lists, quotes, calls to action, stats, badges, callouts, images, icons, or dividers to a supported slide.

Lists can use bullets or numbers. Quote sources and stat descriptions are optional: leave the field empty when the supporting line is not needed. Badge and Callout controls can change the background, border, corners, and spacing around the text.

Find an icon

Select an Icon block, then use Search icons in the properties panel. The initial grid shows common choices; typing at least two letters searches the full Remix Icon catalogue without loading every icon into the panel at once.

You can browse the official Remix Icon library for the full visual reference. To use a specific result manually, expand Enter an exact icon name and enter the name shown by Remix Icon, such as compass-3-line. The -line version is outlined and the -fill version is filled.

Backgrounds

Slides and global settings can use solid colors, gradients, images, or Background Art.

Background Art gives you curated vector patterns such as frames, grids, lines, waves, arrows, dots, circles, and photo-safe accents. Open the Background Art gallery to search, filter by family or slide use, and choose a preset.

Use Brand Kit colors when you want the art to follow the carousel theme. Use Original colors when you want the preset's designed palette. You can also adjust whether the art fills or fits the slide and lower the intensity when the pattern competes with the content.

Position and spacing

Use position and spacing controls when a selected element needs a cleaner placement inside the slide. The editor also supports dragging existing elements to reorder them on the current slide, and supported elements can be moved between slides by dragging them into a different slide area.

Global settings

Global settings apply across the carousel. Use them for deck-wide choices such as shared background behavior, content scale, and the SlideDrift export banner setting. A global background is used by slides that do not have their own custom background, so theme defaults do not replace the deck-wide choice.

The Typography section lets you choose deck-wide heading and body fonts for themed text. You can start from font packs such as Clean SaaS, Bold Creator, Editorial, Luxury, Technical, Friendly, Minimal, and Premium Startup, or choose heading and body fonts separately.

Heading fonts are used for titles and slide hooks. Body fonts are used for paragraphs and supporting text. New themed text follows these global choices, and supported generated, shared, and exported views load the selected Google fonts when they are used in the carousel.

Global settings also includes the editor onboarding replay toggle when the guided tips are available for the current carousel.