Here's how you can find fonts quickly when editing your YouTube thumbnails and videos
to grab attention.
When it comes to your YouTube videos or thumbnails.
Text is so important.
Text fonts or typography can help emphasize a moment of your video
and capture your audience attention, plus it can become part of your branding.
However, finding the "right fonts" can feel like a never ending search.
That's why I've partnered with Adobe Express and have become an Adobe ambassador
to show off Express features like their font recommendations.
So you can spend more time creating content and less time searching for fonts.
The cool thing is this feature is available for free,
but you do get more font options with the page versions
If you'd like to give Adobe Express a try, an affiliate link will be in the description
where you can sign up for free.
Whether you're creating a new graphic from scratch or using an Adobe Express template, font
recommendations can help you save time and find the perfect fonts for editing your content.
I'll start with a blank canvas to focus on font recommendations,
and then I'll show you how I found the font for a thumbnail I'm working on to get started.
Click on the plus icon, whether on your desktop or mobile app.
From here you can select a template of your choice,
or you can select the custom size graphic and then enter
the size and custom if you're looking for a text for a video.
Make sure to match the size of the video here.
Since I know that there's a template for YouTube thumbnails, I can click on social post
and select YouTube thumbnail.
Once you have your dimension selected, click on next you'll
then be brought to a blank canvas or can select a template.
I already have a template in mind for that livestream thumbnail I'm doing,
but if you just want to experiment with the text, you can do so too.
I'll click on the add
your text button and then I'll be brought to the text options.
I can double click the text to edit it, or
I can look at the panel on the right hand side and I can edit it there.
In fact, let me change this font color to red.
I'll then change the text to find fonts fast.
Try saying that three times fast!
Then I'll select the font dropdown menu here, or
I can search for one of the styles here for font options.
Adobe Express has made the design process
pretty easy and efficient by letting us see the fonts in the preview window here.
I can then take this font I found here and add it to my videos like so.
Or I can keep searching
and browsing for more inspiration to help your content stand out on YouTube.
You have to remember that your viewers watch on multiple devices
and that different sizes you choose will look different depending on the device.
That's why I try to go for big, impactful, readable fonts for any size device.
This font isn't bad, but let's keep working on it.
If you look under the text effects, you'll see the font recommendations.
This lets us use Adobe's Font Library, which at the time of this video
has over 20,000 fonts and more are added each and every month.
I can see that it's already given me some recommendations,
but to see more I can click on Explore More here.
Then I can click around and find different fonts
and I can see my original selected font on the top here to compare the fonts I find
I think I like this font here
font recommendations uses contextual clues of what's in the image
we're making things such as other fonts, icons, etc.
So you'll get more appropriate recommendations for the projects you're working on.
In fact, here let me show you on the thumbnail I'm currently working on for a live stream.
If I double click into this group here, I can see my text options.
I do like this thumbnail, but I want my text to fit it even better.
So I'm going to click Explore More once again.
Once I find a style I like OK,
this one's pretty close.
I can click on this icon here to find similar text options.
And then using this, I can fine tune my font options even more
This saves me so much time because I told it what I like
and instead of me searching for similar fonts, it's done this for me.
The cool part is that it does this for free.
Of course, the font is not free.
You can tell by this icon here.
I really like this font, so I'm now going to zoom out of my thumbnail
to make sure it's readable no matter what size it is.
And with this thumbnail at 10%, I can still make out what it's saying.
So I'll say this is good.
Again, you want your font not only to standout, but still be readable.
If you want to know the name of the font, you can just click into this group again.
And on the right hand side, see the font name.
Let's say I want to see the previous fonts I used.
I can do this by just undoing the changes.
And then if I look at the font panel,
there's the previous fonts I used.
My hope is that they have a way that you can save your favorite fonts
so you can use them again easily and have them to Adobe fonts.
But for now, you can easily find them and save them yourself
in something like a word document.
Speaking of finding, let me know in the comments which fonts have you found that you enjoy?
I'm curious and would love to know.
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And remember I'm Andrew Kan and if I Kan find fonts quickly and easily, then you Kan too!