Gradient

Important

This package is deprecated. From Unity 2023.2, TextMesh Pro is part of the Unity UI (uGUI) package. For current documentation, refer to TextMesh Pro in the Unity UI package.

The <gradient> tag applies a pre-defined gradient preset to text.

For more information about creating gradient presets, see the documentation on Gradient Presets.

The closing </gradient> tag reverts to the TextMesh pro object's original color.

Example:

Apply<b>
<gradient="Yellow to Orange - Vertical">any
<gradient="Light to Dark Green - Vertical">gradient
<gradient="Blue to Purple - Vertical">preset</gradient>
</b>to your text

Successive gradient tags ended with a closing </gradient>

Note: When you apply a gradient using this tag, it's multiplied by the TextMesh Pro object's current vertex colors.

This <gradient="Light to Dark Green - Vertical">Light to Dark Green gradient</gradient> is tinted by the red vertex color

Applying a green gradient to red text

To apply the pure gradient to a selection of text, you can use a <color> tag to "reset" the color to white before applying the gradient.

This <color=#FFFFFFFF><gradient="Light to Dark Green - Vertical">Light to Dark Green gradient</gradient></color> is no longer tinted by the red vertex color

"Resetting" the text's vertex color before applying a gradient