diff --git a/WAS_Node_Suite.py b/WAS_Node_Suite.py
index d6e8007..2c94ff1 100644
--- a/WAS_Node_Suite.py
+++ b/WAS_Node_Suite.py
@@ -182,6 +182,7 @@ was_conf_template = {
                     "suppress_uncomfy_warnings": True,
                     "show_startup_junk": True,
                     "show_inspiration_quote": True,
+                    "text_nodes_type": "STRING",
                     "webui_styles": None,
                     "webui_styles_persistent_update": True,
                     "blip_model_url": "https://storage.googleapis.com/sfr-vision-language-research/BLIP/models/model_base_capfilt_large.pth",
@@ -297,6 +298,9 @@ if not os.access(WAS_SUITE_ROOT, os.W_OK) or not os.access(MODELS_DIR, os.W_OK):
 
 # SET TEXT TYPE
 TEXT_TYPE = "STRING"
+if was_config and was_config.__contains__('text_nodes_type'):
+    if was_config['text_node_type'].strip() != '':
+        TEXT_TYPE = was_config['text_node_type'].strip()
 if was_config and was_config.__contains__('use_legacy_ascii_text'):
     if was_config['use_legacy_ascii_text']:
         TEXT_TYPE = "ASCII"