diff --git a/src/shapes/text.class.js b/src/shapes/text.class.js
index ddb5c0dbcd2..f60bafe54c2 100644
--- a/src/shapes/text.class.js
+++ b/src/shapes/text.class.js
@@ -492,7 +492,7 @@
      * @return {Boolean}
      */
     styleHas: function(property, lineIndex) {
-      if (!this.styles) {
+      if (!this.styles || !property || property === '') {
         return false;
       }
       if (typeof lineIndex !== 'undefined' && !this.styles[lineIndex]) {
@@ -511,6 +511,86 @@
       return false;
     },
 
+    /**
+     * Check if characters in a text have a value for a property
+     * whose value matches the textbox's value for that property.  If so,
+     * the character-level property is deleted.  If the character
+     * has no other properties, then it is also deleted.  Finally,
+     * if the line containing that character has no other characters
+     * then it also is deleted.
+     *
+     * @param {string} property The property to compare between characters and text.
+     */
+    cleanStyle: function(property) {
+      if (!this.styles || !property || property === '') {
+        return false;
+      }
+      var obj = this.styles, stylesCount = 0, letterCount, foundStyle = false, style,
+          canBeSwapped = true, graphemeCount = 0;
+      // eslint-disable-next-line
+      for (var p1 in obj) {
+        letterCount = 0;
+        // eslint-disable-next-line
+        for (var p2 in obj[p1]) {
+          stylesCount++;
+          if (!foundStyle) {
+            style = obj[p1][p2][property];
+            foundStyle = true;
+          }
+          else if (obj[p1][p2][property] !== style) {
+            canBeSwapped = false;
+          }
+          if (obj[p1][p2][property] === this[property]) {
+            delete obj[p1][p2][property];
+          }
+          if (Object.keys(obj[p1][p2]).length !== 0) {
+            letterCount++;
+          }
+          else {
+            delete obj[p1][p2];
+          }
+        }
+        if (letterCount === 0) {
+          delete obj[p1];
+        }
+      }
+      // if every grapheme has the same style set then
+      // delete those styles and set it on the parent
+      for (var i = 0; i < this._textLines.length; i++) {
+        graphemeCount += this._textLines[i].length;
+      }
+      if (canBeSwapped && stylesCount === graphemeCount) {
+        this[property] = style;
+        this.removeStyle(property);
+      }
+    },
+
+    /**
+     * Remove a style property or properties from all individual character styles
+     * in a text object.  Deletes the character style object if it contains no other style
+     * props.  Deletes a line style object if it contains no other character styles.
+     *
+     * @param {String} props The property to remove from character styles.
+     */
+    removeStyle: function(property) {
+      if (!this.styles || !property || property === '') {
+        return;
+      }
+      var obj = this.styles, line, lineNum, charNum;
+      for (lineNum in obj) {
+        var line = obj[lineNum];
+        for (charNum in line) {
+          delete line[charNum][property];
+          if (Object.keys(line[charNum]).length === 0) {
+            delete line[charNum];
+          }
+        }
+        if (Object.keys(line).length === 0) {
+          delete obj[lineNum];
+        }
+      }
+    },
+
     /**
      * @private
      */
diff --git a/test/unit/text.js b/test/unit/text.js
index a600f29d459..eca9e615337 100644
--- a/test/unit/text.js
+++ b/test/unit/text.js
@@ -332,4 +332,58 @@
     equal(removeTranslate(text.toSVG()), removeTranslate(TEXT_SVG_JUSTIFIED));
   });
 
+  test('text styleHas', function() {
+    var text = new fabric.Text('xxxxxx\nx y');
+    text.styles = { };
+    ok(typeof text.styleHas === 'function');
+    equal(text.styleHas('stroke'), false, 'the text style has no stroke');
+    text.styles = { 1: { 0: { stroke: 'red' }}};
+    equal(text.styleHas('stroke'), true, 'the text style has stroke');
+  });
+
+  test('text cleanStyle', function() {
+    var text = new fabric.Text('xxxxxx\nx y');
+    text.styles = { 1: { 0: { stroke: 'red' }}};
+    text.stroke = 'red';
+    ok(typeof text.cleanStyle === 'function');
+    text.cleanStyle('stroke');
+    equal(text.styles[1], undefined, 'the style has been cleaned since stroke was equal to text property');
+    text.styles = { 1: { 0: { stroke: 'blue' }}};
+    text.stroke = 'red';
+    text.cleanStyle('stroke');
+    equal(text.styles[1][0].stroke, 'blue', 'nothing to clean, style untouched');
+  });
+
+  test('text cleanStyle with empty styles', function() {
+    var text = new fabric.Text('xxxxxx\nx y');
+    text.styles = { 1: { 0: { }, 1: { }}, 2: { }, 3: { 4: { }}};
+    text.cleanStyle('any');
+    equal(text.styles[1], undefined, 'the style has been cleaned since there were no usefull informations');
+    equal(text.styles[2], undefined, 'the style has been cleaned since there were no usefull informations');
+    equal(text.styles[3], undefined, 'the style has been cleaned since there were no usefull informations');
+  });
+
+  test('text cleanStyle with full style', function() {
+    var text = new fabric.Text('xxx');
+    text.styles = { 0: { 0: { fill: 'blue' }, 1:  { fill: 'blue' }, 2:  { fill: 'blue' }}};
+    text.fill = 'black';
+    text.cleanStyle('fill');
+    equal(text.fill, 'blue', 'the fill has been changed to blue');
+    equal(text.styles[0], undefined, 'all the style has been removed');
+  });
+
+  test('text removeStyle with some style', function() {
+    var text = new fabric.Text('xxx');
+    text.styles = { 0: { 0: { stroke: 'black', fill: 'blue' }, 1:  { fill: 'blue' }, 2:  { fill: 'blue' }}};
+    ok(typeof text.removeStyle === 'function');
+    text.fill = 'red';
+    text.removeStyle('fill');
+    equal(text.fill, 'red', 'the fill has not been changed');
+    equal(text.styles[0][0].stroke, 'black', 'the non fill part of the style is still there');
+    equal(text.styles[0][0].fill, undefined, 'the fill part of the style has been removed');
+    text.styles = { 0: { 0: { fill: 'blue' }, 1:  { fill: 'blue' }, 2:  { fill: 'blue' }}};
+    text.removeStyle('fill');
+    equal(text.styles[0], undefined, 'the styles got empty and has been removed');
+  });
+
 })();