How To Make Silver and Gold Letters in Canva

Want to create eye-catching designs with gold and silver letters in Canva but not sure how? This is article will help you out.

We take you through the exact steps you can take to make silver or gold letters in Canva, as well how to make overlays, find silver or gold letter elements, and more.

Let’s get into it.

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Using letter frames (Text masks):
Using frames on top of shapes
Using silver or gold color codes on fonts
Using silver or gold letter elements

Creating silver and gold letters with letter frames (text masks)

Here are the simple steps you can take in Canva to quickly create silver or gold letters.

Note: If you want more free letter frame options than what you can find by searching on Canva, check out this article – 30+ Custom Canva letter frames.

Step 1: Add letter frames to the canvas

Once you’re in the Canva editor, go to the ‘Elements’ tab on the left side panel, scroll down until you find ‘Frames’ and click ‘See all’, and search for ‘letter’ in the frames section:

Choose the letter frames you need to make up the word you want for your design, for example we added letters to make up our brand name ‘Design Hub’, and then arrange the letters on the canvas:

Step 2: Find a gold or silver image

The next step is to find a gold or silver image to add as the text mask on your chosen letter frames. Navigate the ‘Photos’ tab on the left side panel and search for ‘gold’ or ‘silver’.

You can also add extra words in your search phrase to get more options e.g.:

gold foil
gold texture
gold liquid
gold metal
shiny gold

silver foil
silver texture
silver liquid
silver metal
shiny silver

Step 3: Add the photos to your letter frames

Once you’ve found your photo(s) you simply need to drag them from the left side panel over the letter to add them to the frames as text masks:

If you have a lot of letters and want to speed up the process you can add a photo to one of the letter frames, and then copy the ‘style’ and apply it to all the other letter frames on the canvas by selecting the letter frame that contains the photo, and clicking on the ‘Copy style’ button at the top right of the editor:

Then click and drag your cursor to select all the other letter frames, and the style will be applied to all of them:

Step 4: Adjust the photos in the frames

Now all that’s left to do is to adjust the photos within the letter frames. To do this, simply double click on an image in one of the frames and adjust it to your liking:

You can also click on an image in one of the letter frames and click on ‘Edit image’ via the panel above the editor and this will give you even more customization options such as being able to change the brightness, add filters, and much more:

And that’s it. You’ve created gold or silver letters using letter frames in Canva. We particularly like the gold foil letter effect:

Silver letters made using frames in Canva

Creating silver and gold letters with shapes and frames

In this method we can utilize frames in Canva again but in a slightly different way. Essentially, we use them as overlays over shape elements and text elements. Here’s how:

Step 1: Find a frame that you like and a shape element to match

Navigate back to the frames area via the left side panel and find a frame shape that you like (one that you will be able to match up with a shape element exactly. We chose this one:

Then add a shape element that you can make into the exact same dimensions as your frame (you can find the shapes elements in the ‘Elements’ tab too):

Step 2: Add text over the shape element

Press T to add a text box to the canvas or go to the ‘text’ tab via the left side panel and click ‘Add a heading’. This will add a text box to your canvas.

Change the text to what you want e.g. we change it to ‘DH’, and then drag it over the shape element so it’s sitting exactly in the middle of it:

Then change the text to the size that you want it to be, and choose the font and color:

Step 3: Add a photo to the frame

Now it’s time to add a photo to the frame. So, search for a gold or silver photo in the photos tab and add one that you like to the frame element:

Step 4: Move the frame on top of the text & shape

The next step is to move the frame element so it’s sitting over the text and shape element perfectly:

You may have to adjust the layering to ensure the frame is sitting at the top by using the ‘Position’ options i.e ‘Forward’:

Step 5: Make the frame transparent

The last step is to make the frame element slightly transparent so we can see the text element below it. To do that simply select the frame, click on the transparency button and change it to what works best:

And that’s it. You’ve made another design with gold or silver letters in Canva:

Gold letters made with frames, shapes, and text elements

Silver letters made with frames, shapes, and text elements

Create gold and silver letters using color codes

This is our least favorite method in this article as it’s a bit limited but you can still create some decent designs using it. That is to simply use ‘gold’ and ‘silver’ color codes on text and letter elements in Canva. Here’s how:

Step 1: Add text to the canvas

Add a text box in Canva and type out the word(s) you want for your design:

Step 2: Choose your colors

All of those elements will be images, so if you want to change the colors you’ll need to utilize the image effects as mentioned previously.

Here are some color hex codes for gold and silver:

Metallic gold color code: #D4AF37
Gold alternative color code: #D7BE59
Silver color code: #C0C0C0

Here’s how they’ll look:

Create gold and silver letters using letter elements

If you don’t want to use text elements or frames, you can search for gold and silver letter elements in Canva. There are quite a few to choose from.

We’ve put together a template with some of the gold and silver letter sets we found on Canva. You can access it via this link.

Step 1: Search for letter elements

Open a new or existing design, navigate to the ‘Elements’ tab on the left side panel and put in some search phrases to find your gold or silver letter elements.

Here are some good search terms:

gold letter
gold font
gold alphabet
silver letter
silver font
silver alphabet

Step 2: Add the letters you need to the canvas

Find a set of letter elements that you like, and add them to your canvas to make up your word:

Use these silver letter elements today. Note: only available to Canva Pro users.

Use these letters

Wrapping things up

There you have it, that’s how you can create silver and gold letters in Canva.

We hope this article helps and inspires you.

Enjoy creating! If you have any questions or suggestions leave a comment below.

Creating silver and gold letters with letter frames (text masks)

Step 1: Add letter frames to the canvas

Step 2: Find a gold or silver image

Step 3: Add the photos to your letter frames

Step 4: Adjust the photos in the frames

Creating silver and gold letters with shapes and frames

Step 1: Find a frame that you like and a shape element to match

Step 2: Add text over the shape element

Step 3: Add a photo to the frame

Step 4: Move the frame on top of the text & shape

Step 5: Make the frame transparent

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Create gold and silver letters using color codes

Step 1: Add text to the canvas

Step 2: Choose your colors

Create gold and silver letters using letter elements

Step 1: Search for letter elements

Step 2: Add the letters you need to the canvas

Gold and silver letter element sets

Gold letter element set

Gold letter element set

Gold letter element set

Gold letter element set

Gold letter element set

Silver letter element set

Silver letter element set

Silver letter element set

Silver letter element set

Silver letter element set

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