Tutorial // ing Fonts to Phonto (Android) // Font Recommendations

Wotcher LLA :D

Recently tons of new editors have been

  emerging here in LLA so I thought 'Why not

  help those newer editors out?'. There are

  actually more tutorials like these planned, I will

  start small and go with each tutorial into

  difficulter areas. Today is all about fonts!

  Please enjoy~

I'm not sure if it also works for iOS but it

  definitely works with Android devices!

Thanks for the feature~

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C O N T E N T

• Why should I fonts?

• Which apps should I use?

• How does ing fonts work?

• Recommended Fonts

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Why should I fonts?

Before I knew the wonders of ing

  fonts I started with PicsArt fonts. PicsArt has

  a handful fonts for you to chose from and

  sadly you can't use other fonts that these. I

  counted them and the app has a total of 35

  fonts. I believe they added one or two more

  fonts since I started editing in January 2017,

  but that's still a small amount. But the reason

  why you SHOULDN'T use PicsArt for fonts isn't

  the small amount of choseable fonts (yes

  believe me, 35 isn't much) but rather which

  fonts they have. I made the experience that

  PicsArt has very extreme fonts. They are all

  completely different from each other and

  many of them are completely unsuitable for

  edits. For future examples I will use the TPL

  (three pictures layout) of this blog:

Here you see a few of PicsArt's fonts. They all

  remind me of Microsoft Word's default fonts.

  To be blunt they look in the rarest cases good.

  PicsArt actually has a very good text tool

  because of how much they allow you to do

  with the text:

• 35 fonts to chose from

• Select a color: Any color, gradient or texture (also own textures)

• Stoke: any color and width but no opacity

• opacity of text

• merge-tool: screen, multiply etc.

• shadow: position, color, opacity

• alignment (horizontal/vertical)

• bending-tool

As you see it has a great variety of tools, and

  the only reason why you shouldn't use PicsArt

  for your text is that you can't add your own

  fonts.

I made an example with PicsArt so that you

  can see the difference with the right fonts in

  the end:

PicsArt example TPL

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Which apps should I use?

The only reason why I started with PicsArt is

  because it's so similar to the app we will use

  from now on for our text: Phonto

Phonto is free and you don't have to pay for

  anything. It's available for Android as well as

  iOS.

With Phonto you can do everything with your

  text I just told you you can do in PicsArt except

  the texture and blending options. But I will

  cover each app in another turorial.

Get Phonto for Android here

Phonto is the easiest app in of fonts.

  You can also use PixelLab (Android only) or

  ibisPaint X for your ed fonts, but

  Phonto is the fastest and easiest app to use in

  my opinion.

  So in order to get started I recommend having

  Phonto dowloaded :eyes:

Did it? Perfect, onto the next step!

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How does ing fonts work?

✎ Step 1: Go to Dafont.com

The website I use the most for new fonts is

  this website called Dafont.

The site is easy to navigate through and I

  normally search for new fonts using the 'top'

  menu. The link above will get you directly to

  the current top fonts. Here is what it looks like

  for me:

As you can see there are (from the top to the

  bottom) a language menu, the general menu

  with the search bar next to it and under these

  the top fonts. For this tutorial I will a

  font called Misses.

✎ Step 2: Select a font

You honestly only have to tap onto the

  '' button. It then s the font

  and the sign for a successful

  appears in your top bar of your phone. Swipe it

  down and it looks like this:

Translation: completed / Chrome now

✎ Step 3: Install the font

Next thing you do is tap onto the file. It then

  proceedes to open Phonto in this fashion:

There are always more files than the font only,

  but the only one which is really important is

  always the one with the button 'install' next to

  it. The others are previews and similar stuff.

  You don't need to tap onto those. Once you've

  touched 'Install' your screen will show this

  window:

Touch 'Install' again.

If it looks like this then you have successful

  ed your new font! Now all you have

  to do is one last step.

✎ Step 4: Finishing Touch

If you open Phonto, select your picture (in this

  case the TPL) and then add your text you may

  have luck and the font is already in your own

  fonts or it isn't.

Make sure that you have selected 'My Fonts'

  like pointed out in the picture. If your font isn't

  in there then all you have to do is tap onto the

  update button, the one with the two spinning

  arrows:

And you're done! The font is now guaranteed in

  Phonto and you can always use it.

Note #1: Sometimes a font comes with more

files than one. They are in most cases the

bold, thin and/or italic versions of the font.

Then you have to of course install those too,

installing only one version won't get you all

versions.

Note #2: Dafont's fonts are .zip files. If you

have some app which is able to open zip files

then chose Phonto for opening the font files.

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Recommended Fonts

What would a font tutorial be without a few

  good suggestions? Anyway, you find in this

  section not only how the fonts look like but

  also the link to them. You don't even have to

  search though dafont :D

Hopefully you'll all find something good you

  don't already have.

Above

Adefebia

Alice in Wonderland

Apalu

Autumn in November

Beauty and the Beast

Beauty

Bebasneue

Bluefish

Brilliant signature

Broken Glass

Bromello

Calypsoka

Caviar Dreams

Champagne & Limousines

Chasing Embers

Code

Dandeleon

Decalled Script

Declara

Deliciously

Devil Breeze

Honeyguide

Dolce Vita

Dry Brush

Epic Ride

Eraser

Esteh

First Take

Gardenfreude

Gloss & Bloom

Halbrein

Hanging Letters

(HBM) Razed

High Tide

Iceland

Hello Stockholm

Inkland

Just Be

Just Signature

Kiona

Leixo

Lemon Tuesday

Lemon Milk

Libertinage

Love Hewits

The Artist Script

Magnolia Sky

Marmalade

Marte

Mayton

Mellony

Mermaid

Midnight in October

Mocking Bird

Moon

^ not available on Dafont currently

Moving Skate

Musterion

Night of the Dragons

Observant

Oliver Quin

Bristle brush

Paduka Script

Perfume

Praying Angel

Prestige Signature

Quicksand

Reckless

New Romantics

Royal Twins

Savour & Pinacolada

Schoolkid

Scriptina

Sheilazain

Shopping Script

Shorelines

Signerica

Simple Monologue

Snowinter

Snubnose

Sofye

Star Stella

Stay Classy

Stea

Stereofidelic

Sunrise International

Surfing Capital

Sweet Hipster

Sweet Yell

Tahu!

Taken by Vultures

Valairya

Volstead

Worthwhile

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Closing Statement

I actually had to write a big part twice because

  Amino didn't save my draft :') Anybody else

  with that problem?

Those aren't all of my fonts. I chose the fonts I

  believed to be best suited for LL editing, my

  favorite fonts as well as some fonts I thought

  the community may like. If you're wondering

  why they seem to be not properly ordered at

  some places: The font file sometimes has a

  different name than the actual font.

  Sometimes there's a whole other word before

  the actual name. I honestly wrote them down

  in the order as they appear in my fonts library

  in Phonto.

Hopefully this helped you guys a bit~ Since I

  used the TPL as the example for why you

  should new fonts here is the final

  piece:

Fonts: Worthwhile, Savour & Pinacolada

I believe you'd all agree with me that this

  typography is way better than the one with

  PicsArt. Since worthwhile is also so thick I

  didn't even had to add a stroke uwu

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Thanks for your attention!

Bai folks :wave: