Fonts & Custom Fonts
The 28 curated fonts in Canvas Design Studio — sans, serif, display, handwriting, and monospace — plus per-template font allowlists and custom font upload on Growth.
Fonts make or break a personalised product. The editor ships a curated set of 28 — big enough for variety, small enough that customers actually choose — with brand-level control for you.
The curated library#
| Category | Fonts |
|---|---|
| Sans serif (10) | Inter, Roboto, Open Sans, Lato, Montserrat, Poppins, Raleway, Work Sans, DM Sans, Nunito |
| Serif (5) | Playfair Display, Merriweather, Lora, Roboto Slab, EB Garamond |
| Display (6) | Bebas Neue, Anton, Oswald, Pacifico, Lobster, Righteous |
| Handwriting (4) | Caveat, Dancing Script, Permanent Marker, Shadows Into Light |
| Monospace (3) | JetBrains Mono, Inconsolata, Courier Prime |
Each family includes its usable weights and italics — bold and italic toggles in the toolbar switch to real font variants, not faux-bold distortions that print badly.
Loading is lazy (and correct)#
Fonts load on demand when picked, so the editor stays fast. Behind the scenes, every declared variant of a family loads together — a subtle but important detail that prevents the classic canvas bug where bold text measured before its font arrived stays mis-measured forever.
Restricting fonts per template#
Brand consistency beats variety. Every template can carry a font allowlist — customers see only the families you approve in the picker. The starter stamp templates, for instance, allow just six stamp-appropriate faces.
Set it in the template's constraints; see Lockdown & Customer Modes.
Custom fonts (Growth and Scale)#
On Growth and above you can upload your own fonts — TTF, OTF, WOFF, or WOFF2. They appear in the font picker alongside the curated set and render identically in the editor and in production output. Ideal for licensed brand typefaces or niche display faces your products are known for.
Check your font licence covers this use — most desktop licences don't automatically permit web embedding. Foundries typically sell web or app licences separately.
Fonts in production output#
Text renders to the production files at full print resolution with the actual font — what the customer saw is what prints. For engraving workflows, vector trace export converts text to traced curves so your laser software never needs the font installed.
Related guides#
- Text Effects & Curved Text
- Lockdown & Customer Modes — font allowlists
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