In this video I'm going to show you a simple font hack on Canva to level up your text designs
and make them look something like this. You know, with different colors and stuff to help
it stand out from the crowd. I'm going to show you how to do this in Canva for free. Let's go!
Thanks for joining me on this video. My name is Juna with Detour Shirts. I've been designing and
selling t-shirts online since 2005 and today I want to teach you a simple font hack on Canva.
I went to target recently and i saw a t-shirt like this one right here and you can see the fonts are
all different colors and different things like that usually fonts are just one color i mean you
can change the color of each letter but they don't look fancy like this and i'm going to show you a
way on canva for free to look for these fonts and use them there are lots of cool fonts like this
on canva i'm going to show you where to look and how to find them and then how to make them into a
design really simple and all of this for free on camera free so let's get started right now
let's get into canva and i'll show you how to do it so here we are on canva canva.com you can see
i have the pro version but a lot of what i'm gonna do is gonna be for the free version so don't worry
if you only have the free version i'm gonna first create a design right here click on create design
and custom size and if you don't have one you can type in 4 500 by 5400 and that's the t-shirt size
that i'm going to use you can see the artboard right there real simple first thing we're going
to do is click on elements and then we're going to look for a cool font message on here so typically
when you're thinking about building text-based designs you want to do text like this and then
look for a font but that's only going to give you fonts that you can color one at a time and they're
not going to be extravagant or have different colors or different graphics inside of it i'm
going to show you a way to find fonts that have different graphics in it to make it even stand out
more so let's not do this text this is the another way you could do it but you're going to look for
motivational quotes in here so you can see how these are there i'm just going to do like you can
right there and you can see you can do it you can there's lots of them right here that have
special fonts right and it doesn't have to be you can it can be any motivational one this one's a
cool one it's pro you can see how how cool that is but i'm gonna do one up here that was free you
can see that one's free and then there's magic recommendations so let's hit see all and let's
just make these smaller here we don't have this one put it up here do your thing put it up here
and we're just going to click on all of them so let's just use all of them
and it doesn't matter how small we just want to look at the letters so
uh i'm gonna have some fun here in a little bit once we put all of these up here
now if you can find motivational sayings that all have the same one we got really lucky here
there's a bunch of here and uh you want to find them that have tons because what we're gonna do
is use the letters in them so the more phrases you have the more letters you can find
and we'll just keep going until the last one believe in yourself here all right good so we
took all of these right here and the thing we're gonna do is spell a word with these using the
crop tool so i'll show you what i mean i'm gonna add a page down here and we're gonna take we're
gonna spell the word summer so uh let's find an s that we can use now you're gonna have to find an
s that you can crop out so um let's say we wanted to use this one right here let's see what happens
i'm gonna copy it command c and put it down here command v and let's make it bigger
so you can see what happens when i hit the crop tool you can see when i try and
crop out the s that t is still there you see that so this is not a good s to use
but luckily we have tons of s's here let's use this one slow and steady we're going to do command
c to copy it and command v here you could also drag it down here and then we're going to use crop
and kind of crop this one out i could have used that s down here as
well but i like this one now make it bigger and make sure everything's cropped out you
can see there's a little bit there so we're going to hit crop again
just get really close so now that there's nothing there we got our s so let's move that to the
side we need a u for summer uh oh that that u right there that's kind of cool so let's drag
this down that's another way you can do um is hold down option and drag and i'm gonna do crop
on the u right there and make it bigger all right so we're gonna need a m and i couldn't find an
m here but there's lots of w so there's a w there there's a w there there's a w there um let's use
this w here first i'm gonna option drag bring it down here make it bigger you know and then crop it
make it bigger make sure everything's cropped out yeah it looks like it is
and then we rotate it boom that looks like a m now right all right so
we need two m's so there was another one there let's do that
and we'll do crop you can see how easy this is we're just doing the crop lines
we don't have to draw anything but it looks as if we did draw it
and it it works within the terms of service because we're not taking this same
phrase right here we're cutting it up and making it look different now you in canva you can't just
take this phrase and put it on a t-shirt you can do it you can't just take that you're gonna have
to add to it or take away from it add different things and one of the easy ways to do that is i'm
making a whole new word now so this is a good way to do that now you can also take two letters by
uh that are close together so let's see if there's an e and an r you can see right there
er for summer i'm going to drag this down and make it bigger and let's just crop that er right
and see if i got it nope that w still there so that's it's gonna be a tight one
look at that perfect uh and we can make these whatever size we want
summer isn't that cool now the longer the word the longer this is gonna take of course but have fun
with this now i want this to be a tall rectangle so i'm going to use something else up here
let me do i saw something earlier let's do instead of seize the day
we're going to do c's the summer so let's uh do this we can crop out a phrase instead of just
letters so let's just do that that was a lot easier than trying to do letters c's this summer
now maybe a exclamation point i think i saw one here yep yes you can let's bring that down
here and crop out that see just get creative here whoops
i don't know why that happened let's let's do that again crop
all right
cool that's looking good we can also crop out elements of it so
let's say we want this star here let's do that so that these crop
just the star right and we can we can kind of turn it too it doesn't have to be straight
we're gonna put it here and then we'll just do it that way there we go good so now i got my tall
rectangle make sure it's the right size so we're gonna make it uh as big as this holding down shift
see that how cool is that now you may want to add more color in here and you can so let's say i want
this uh to be a different color you can see this color right here is this dark one i'm gonna make
it blue look at that and uh maybe i think there was a blue color in here and i i can make that
there you know um so have fun with that you can also change this one and let's say i want to make
it that color right here so that's this one and change it to there look at that isn't that cool
and maybe we need more blue here so let's click on this one find that and color it nickel
color there you go seize the summer have fun with this you can color it whatever you want
you can see this is really cool now instead of just text or a font with one color now you have
graphics in it and and things like that so mugs would be great posters this would even
be a good poster on redbubble too so now that it's totally different than these you know you
can use it and color it and things like that now we got really lucky with this one uh because of
all the fonts but you can go back in here into graphics and type in motivational inspirational
sayings let's see what happens inspirational sayings see if we get lucky again uh graphics
that one's kind of cool we're looking for one where we can uh clip out the word so let's see
you got this yeah look at that font that's that's kind of neat but it doesn't have the
graphics in it i would look for one that has some cool graphics in it just keep searching
over canva there's not a real good way to to find it but when you do when you do find it
save it so one thing you can do is let's say you just found this one come in here
into info and then star it and save it for later so as you're using canva as you use more things
look for these kinds of things and then save it onto your favorites and then come back and you
can use it later so have fun with this cool new wave new font hack in canva is what i'm calling
it because this isn't actually fonts that you can use to type out a word but you can crop it
to make up your own words you're going to have to do your research to figure out what words are the
best words to put in here this is just a tutorial sees the summer isn't a trending phrase but
you know the people who love summer and love these kinds of things may like it anyway
so you can do that so hopefully this is really helpful for you and make sure to use it in the
future for your t-shirts and other products on print on demand one last thing uh to export this
all you have to do is come in here hit download if you have the pro version you can hit transparent
background if you don't have the pro version you won't be able to hit transparent background but
you can still download the png and delete the background in something like photopia
or preview i have a link i have a video that i made i'll put it right up here on how to do that
in photopia uh as well as you may want to think of the different background color so right now
uh this is white but if we did you know that that would be too dark black it does look nice on so
you can try out the different background colors to make sure that they work on the different colors
wow that's a good color right there right like that teal color so have fun with this change
up the colors to make sure that they work on different color t-shirts and backgrounds and
just have fun so that is it for this video hopefully this video is super helpful for you
now you can elevate your text designs using canva for free make sure your text that looks
very different colorful and have it stand out from the crowd the other ones that just use plain text
right this one can stand out just be careful on the background colors they need to match
all the colors if you're using a lot of different colors it may be hard to match a background color
but black should work and white should work and some of those ones should work really well so
test out the background colors in canva first before you do it so if this was really helpful
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have you used the crop tool on canva before let me know about that this may be your first time
on canva the crop tool you have it on canva as well as affinity designer if you're using that
just a really powerful tool to just crop everything down hopefully this was really
helpful for you thanks again for watching and if you want to see more canva tips click on these
videos right here and as always guys keep creating and keep learning i'll see you on the next one bye