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Uploading a custom font - Adobe Spark Tutorial

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Uploading a custom font

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- Besides working with the small set of built-in fonts you can also go and find new fonts. There are many different places that you could do this. In your organization may have already purchased the rights to certain fonts that you're to use in your brand. If not, I suggest two different websites. The first is Google Fonts. You could find this @fonts.google.com. This allows you to easily find different options. Let's type something here in and set it. So I'll just type in Court Street Bistro. And this way the fonts are previewed. Now we could play with some different options. If we take a look at different categories here we can experiment with what it looks like. Let's go to font properties and adjust the thickness of the font. We'll go with a thicker font and see options there very quickly. Maybe I want a font that's a little bit wider or a little thinner. And you see how you get lots of options that you can preview. We can also look at ones that have many different weights. So this way we could see additional styles. If that font is going to have several different flavors available and different typefaces. So here it might have a bold, an italic, a book and others. This makes it easy to find something. You can also search for specific fonts if they're available. For example, I know I want to use PT Sans. If I find something I like, I can click through and easily see it and then download these for you use later. That will pull it down to your local computer. Be sure to explore the licensing terms. You'll see here what you're allowed to do. For example, this says it can be used freely in products and projects, in print or digital. However, we can't sell the font. This is great though because it gives us a lot of rights and usage terms. Additionally, included with your Adobe membership are some fonts available in Adobe Fonts. Just go to fonts.adobe.com and this will take you to your Adobe Fonts library. Here you'll see different options that you can view. For example, there's a spark pack of a lot of the popular Spark Fonts. And here are some of these designs. If you see something that you like you could just click to make the font active and this will activate it in other systems. And these are going to be available in some spark templates. You also can find other options here that you could use and these can be downloaded. However, keep in mind that not every option is going to be downloadable. So make sure you take a look at what you can do here inside of Adobe Fonts. While I prefer Adobe Fonts when I'm working with Adobe's desktop applications. I actually find that Google Fonts makes it easier for me to download fonts to my local system and continue to use those provided that they're in compliance with the usage terms. In any case using one of these websites or the myriad of commercial options available will help you find a font that's perfect for your organization.

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