Fonts and font libraries

Font Options sets the typeface for a text layer. It also decides whether the font is your choice alone, or something the customer gets to pick on the product page.

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Setting one font

Click the Font picker and choose a typeface. The text on the canvas updates straight away, so you can try a few and keep the one that suits the design. That is all most layers need. A slogan, a fixed date, a shop name: you pick the font, every order gets it.

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Letting customers choose the font

Sometimes the font is part of the personalization. A customer ordering an engraved necklace may want their name in a script, while the next customer wants a clean block letter. To offer a choice, attach a font library to the layer. A library is a named set of fonts you have gathered in your Assets. Once attached, the fonts in it appear underneath the picker, each with an Option ID next to it. The picker still shows one font. That is the font used for the preview and for any order where the customer does not choose, so set it to the one you would want by default.

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Which fonts you can use

You can build a library from Google’s font catalog, or upload your own font files if you have licensed a typeface for your products.

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Choosing fonts that survive personalization

A font that looks beautiful in your design can fail on a real order:

• Test the awkward characters. Accented letters, apostrophes, and non-Latin alphabets are missing from a surprising number of decorative fonts. A missing character usually prints as a blank box.
• Watch very light and very thin fonts. What reads well on screen can disappear when it is embroidered or printed small.
• Try a long name. Condensed fonts hold up far better than wide ones when someone types fifteen letters.

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