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Default text adopts your theme color, but you often want a specific tint. Compose lets you set color and handle long content with ease.

Pass a color to recolor any Text. Use Color values directly, or pull semantic colors from MaterialTheme for theme-aware results.

Hardcoded colors break in dark mode. Reach for MaterialTheme.colorScheme so your text stays readable on every background.

Control horizontal alignment with textAlign. Center a title or justify a paragraph; it only matters when Text has width to fill.

For textAlign to show, the Text must be wider than its words, usually via fillMaxWidth. Otherwise it hugs the text and nothing shifts.

Real data can be longer than your space. Without a plan, text may push your layout or get awkwardly clipped. Overflow handling fixes this.

Limit height by setting maxLines. The text will draw at most that many lines and quietly stop, keeping rows a predictable size.

Pair maxLines with overflow = TextOverflow.Ellipsis to trail off with three dots, signaling there is more to read.

TextOverflow also offers Clip, which simply cuts at the edge, and Visible, which lets text spill out. Ellipsis is the friendliest default. 🙂

Use minLines to reserve space so a card does not jump in height when one item has shorter text than another in a list.

Color makes meaning clear, alignment guides the eye, and overflow rules keep layouts stable no matter how long the real data gets.

You want a one-line label that ends with three dots when too long. What do you set?

You learned to tint text with color, position it using textAlign, and tame long content with maxLines plus overflow. Layouts stay tidy. ✨