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Add your own font
If none of the 22 built-in typefaces is the one you need, you can add your own. It is stored on this device and used only here.
Steps
- Click Brand in the left rail.
- Under Brand fonts, click + Upload a font.
- Choose a .ttf, .otf, .woff or .woff2 file. One at a time — if you select several, only the first is used.
- A box appears naming the file. Read it, then tick the box confirming you have the right to use the font and that your licence permits embedding it in documents you create.
- Click Add font.
- Your font now appears in the Font list on the text toolbar, alongside the built-in ones. You can also set it as your default Headings or Body face in the same panel.
What happens to the file
It stays on this device. It is never uploaded to us, and it is never shipped inside anything you export.
On PDF export, text set in your font is converted to outlines. The PDF then contains artwork in the shape of your letters rather than the font itself. That is deliberate: it means your PDF prints correctly anywhere without your font travelling with it, and it keeps you on the right side of most font licences.
> Note > Because the font lives on this device only, a project that uses it will fall back to a > built-in face if you open it on another computer. If you are handing a project to someone > else, either send them the font too or export a PDF, where the letters are already outlines.
If it does not load
If you see "That file could not be read as a font", the file is not one the browser can use. Check that it really is a .ttf, .otf, .woff or .woff2 — a font still inside a ZIP, or an old Mac .dfont, will fail. Unzip or convert it and try again.
If you see "Please confirm you have the right to use this font", the tick box above the button has not been ticked.