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Procreate font design12/15/2023 ![]() ![]() If you have any questions, or if any part of this lesson was unclear, simply leave a comment below.Hey, designers! We've been listening to your feedback and understand your font frustration. However, with the help of a third-party app, it’s entirely possible to use all of your favorite fonts in Procreate. ![]() Installing fonts in Procreate can be a bit cumbersome, and it’s one of the drawbacks to using a mobile operating system for graphic design. Once installed, you’ll be able to use your new font in every other app, because the font wasn’t actually installed in Procreate, it was installed on your device. If your font isn’t populating in the Fonts list then you may have to close out of the app and restart it. The final step in our quest to install fonts in Procreate is to simply open the Procreate app and add some text to verify that the font has indeed been installed.Īs you can see in the screenshot below, the Chunk Five font has been installed and is ready for use in Procreate: Installed font in Procreate Step 5: Open Procreate to verify that the font has been installed Once completed, you have finished installing your font on your iPad. You will have to authorize permission and type in your 6-digit lock screen passcode. Profiles that have already been installed are indexed below. You should see a profile for your font, waiting to be installed: Within the Profiles section, the uninstalled profiles will be located at the top. Scroll down towards the bottom of the list to locate it. Now that iFont has installed a font profile, we need to navigate to the Settings app and look for where it says Profiles: Profiles is located on the main screen when you first launch the Settings app. Step 4: Install the font from within the Settings app This function installs a font profile instead, and in order to install the font so you can use it in Procreate, you’ll have to navigate to the Settings app and install the font from its profile. It’s important to note that at this point, despite the misleading “install” label on the button, your font isn’t actually installed yet. You will have to give permission for iFont to install the font profile. ![]() Tap on that install button:įollow the prompts that populate after tapping install. Once you’ve opened the font with iFont, you should see the font listed within the app with a blue button next to it that reads “install”. Tap the share icon in the top-right corner (represented by an upward-facing blue arrow icon) to open the font with another app, and choose the iFont app from the list: Tap the font file (either the OTF or TTF file) to open it: How the font file looks once opened. If you have multiple font files then that means that your chosen font comes with various different styles (for example: bold, italics, underlined, etc.) Each of these variations will need to be installed one at a time, but for this tutorial we’re only going to install one variation. These are the files for the font that need to be installed. Within the folder you should see at least one file that ends in. Now that you’ve downloaded your font, it’s time to open it so that we can install it on the operating system. Step 3: Open the font with iFont and install the font Profile Then, tapping on the ZIP file will unzip the file and create a new folder where it is located: The operating system will automatically unzip the file once tapped on.įrom there, you can access the font files by tapping on that new folder. Tapping the ZIP file will open the file in its download location. Once the ZIP file is done downloading, you should be able to access it using the downward-facing arrow icon in the top-right corner: zip file.įor this demonstration I used the Safari web browser. ![]() Open a web browser and find a font to download. For this demonstration I am going to download and install Chuck Five from, but you can download any font you’d like. Now we’re going to find a font to download. Install iFont and then close out of the App Store. The iFont app is needed to install fonts in Procreate Go to the App Store and search for “iFont”. ![]()
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