Hi. Yeah. In this video, we're going to look at what fonts am I allowed to use in fig A which ones are really common to use? And then we're going to look at a bit of font pairing kind of sticking free examples together that look really nice. Here you go. There's a good pairing there just to help you out if you are unsure about what fonts to pick and which ones match. All right, let's jump in. So what fonts can I use? You can use kind of anything these days and you want to make sure that there is whatever font you use, there's a web version of it. Most commonly people will just use Google, fonts, Google fonts or fonts.google.com just is full of free fonts that we can use commercially and they're available to be used online and inside of apps. Ok. So this is a great place to kind of get fonts. Why can't you just use all the fonts on your machine? It's mainly because you need to make sure that they are available. That's a different kind of font that ends up inside of apps and websites. Ok...

. So let's say there's a font that I bought the other day. So let's type in Scott. Use capitals. Scott headphones. Ok. It's this one here. Geograph. I bought it. It's great. I love it. And when I was buying it though, it was here, I was like, great. I love this font. I was using it for t-shirt design for one of my last courses. Ok. And I went, all right. I'm gonna buy this one because it's a paid font. Ok. Don't be afraid to pay for fonts. Ok. This one here and I decided that I wanted to use it for desktop version. And I just bought, instead of the whole thing for 300 I just bought the sizes that I want only for desktop. Ok. But if I needed to use this for an app, OK? Or for a website, I need to pay for a different license. Ok. So you can, it will depend on kind of how many page views. So I know that you can actually put a lot of fonts online, but that is a bit of a hurdle. A lot of people avoid by using something like Google fonts because we don't have to pay for these Google have really kind of, I don't know, beautified the web with their fonts. Ok. So you can go through and pick fonts from here and download them, say that like I've already had a little look through uh how I got my fonts, you know, um there was one called Crimson Text that I liked. I wanted a serif font along with a matching uh San serif font. So I like this one. I was like, great. It's cool. You can type in here so you can put in uh my marketing message, marketing message. So you can kind of check what it looks like and then you can either download parts of them or download the whole family. And what's nice about this is download them, you put them somewhere, open them up and install them. You just double click on them, they install it pretty easy. What's really nice about that though? Is that your developer or who was making your website will be able to have access to the same fonts. They'll install them slightly different, they'll probably use a content, something network, something called a CD N and they, they have different ways of making it happen, but it's the same font, which is nice. So very common to use Google fonts. There's a lot of alternatives for Google fonts. Ok. Uh If you've got an Adobe license, there's uh Adobe fonts, you can use those kind of free as part of your license. You can go to other sites where you buy them. Like this is just an independent foundry that I bought stuff from beautiful stuff here. Ok. But this one's called Klim. Ok. But you can also go to fonts.com or Vado have uh we looked at Indo elements earlier. They have lots of cool fonts in there. Creative Market. There's, there's a million places you can buy fonts, but just know that you might have to buy a specific license and there are just some fonts that nobody's bothered to make web version of it yet. So don't get yourself into trouble. Another little bit of a tip is font pairing. What I find is like, let's say that you do decide that you like this uh semi bold version look 600. There you go. There's that kind of like weird numbering again in the hundreds that we did for color. OK? And let's say you do like the 600 version, you select the style. Actually, let's not do it that way. Let's have a look down the bottom here. What you'll see is often they'll have popular pairings with Crimson text. There you go. So Mozzart is a really common one you're like, yeah, that's a good combo or maybe open sense. OK? These are all other fonts that you can download from Google fonts. Now, this is not like a typography class, but a nice simple kind of quite a common way of working is that if you've picked a font that has a s for your like say hero text or your kind of hitting text. So these little seraphs, these little feats on it, it'd be common to use a San Sera as the body copy and vice versa. Not, it's not the 100% rule. It's just a really common rule. Now, if you are new to the font game or design game, you might find something this term quite useful uh font pairings. So if we're gonna use Google fonts or Adobe fonts or whatever it is, the word font pairings is useful. Ok? And the results here, let's have a look. I'm gonna open up a few of these and you. Ok? Anyway, a bunch of them. OK. And what you'll see is there is fond pairing somebody else before you has gone and decided to pair stuff up this. Here we go. Here's some examples finally. OK. Ail with uh Leto, what do you think? Hm. There you go. Not going on that one. This is pretty cool. The art deco going on. Um Yeah, so lots of examples of Google fonts that you can uh oh, so many pop ups. Anyway. Um let's have a look at some more examples. Monster at Oswald. You don't have to agree. I don't like that pairing and let's have a look. Yeah, but these are all downloadable from Google fonts and you might just see like, oh man, that's it. April fake face. April fat face with Roboto is where I'm going. Ok. And just have a little work through all the different ones. OK? Uh You can go into the fig a community. There is some font pairing files in there as well, but it can just be a little bit of a leg up when you are trying to pick fonts for an app or a website, bit of font pairing. So that's it for what fonts can I use in my fig files. Let's get on to the next video.

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What Fonts Can I Use? Plus Font Pairing In Figma

What Fonts Can I Use? Plus Font Pairing In Figma

Lesson Info

41. What Fonts Can I Use? Plus Font Pairing In Figma

Lessons

Introduction to Figma Essentials

Getting Started with Figma Training

What Is Figma For & Does It Do The Coding?

What's The Difference Between UI And UX In Figma

What We Are Making In This Figma Course

Class Project 01 - Create Your Own Brief

What is Lo Fi Wireframe vs High Fidelity in Figma?

Creating Our Design File & Introducing Frames In Figma

The Basics Of Type & Fonts In Figma

Rectangles, Circles, Buttons And Rounded Corners In Figma

How To Use Color In Figma

Strokes Plus Updating Color Defaults In Figma

Object Editing And How To Escape In Figma

Scale vs Selection Tool in Figma

Frames vs Groups in Figma

Class Project 02 - Wireframe

Where To Get Free Icons For Figma

Matching The Stroke Of Our Icons

How To Use Plugins In Figma For Icons

Class Project 03 - Icons

How to Use Pages in Figma

How to Prototype in Figma

Prototype Animation and Easing In Figma

Testing On Your Phone with Figma Mirror

Class Project 04 - Testing On Your Phone

What is Smart Animation & Delays in Figma?

Class Project 05 - My First Animation

Sharing & Commenting on a Figma File with Stakeholders

Sharing & Editing With Other Ux Designers In Figma

How I Get Inspiration For Ux Projects

How To Create A Mood Board In Figma

Class Project 06 - Moodboard

How to Work with Columns & Grids in Figma

Tips, Tricks, Preferences, and Weirdness in Figma

Color Inspiration & The Eyedropper In Figma

How To Create A Color Palette In Figma

How to Make Gradients in Figma

How to Create & Use Color Styles in Figma

Class Project 07 - Colors & Columns

Fonts on Desktop vs in Browser in Figma

What Fonts Can I Use? Plus Font Pairing In Figma

What Common Font Sizes Should I Choose In Web Design?

How to Make Character Styles in Figma

Lorem Ipsum & Placeholder Text In Figma

Useful Things To Know About Text In Figma

How To Fix Missing Fonts In Figma

Class Project 08 - Text

Drawing Tips And Tricks In Figma

Squircle Buttons with ios Rounded Courses In Figma

Boolean, Union, Subtract, Intersect and Exclude with Pathfinder in Figma

What Is The Difference? Union vs Flatten In Figma

Class Project 09 - Making Stuff

Smart Selection & Tidy Up in Figma

Do I Need To Know Illustrator With Figma?

Tips & Tricks For Using Images In Figma

Masking & Cropping Images In Figma

Free Images & Plugins For Figma

Do You Need Photoshop For Ux Design In Figma?

Class Project 10 - Images

What Is Autolayout & Expanding Buttons In Figma?

Class Project 11 - Buttons

Auto Layout For Spacing

How To Use Constraints In Figma

Combining Nested Frames Auto Layout & Constraints in Figma

Adding Text Box Autoheight to Autolayout in Figma

Class Project 12 - Responsive Design

Nice Drop Shadow & Inner Drop Shadow Effects In Figma

Blur Layer, Background Blur & Image Blur in Figma

How to Make Neumorphic UI buttons in Figma

Class Project 13 - Effects

How To Save Locally & Save History In Figma

What are Components in Figma?

Updating, Changing & Resetting Your Components

You Can’t Kill Main Components In Figma