Let's spend a few minutes talking about fonts and font pairings. This is not a primer on Thai biography, just a few hints and suggestions about using different fonts in your images. Take it from me too many fonts spoil the pic. In the past, I might have used five or 10 different fonts or decorations, I tend to overdo things and they always look terrible. So use one or two, three at the most different fonts, particularly if you're attributing the author. And of course you have built in fonts to your system.
But where do you get other fonts if you want something a little different? Well, there's Google fonts, which are free to font, again, free, creative market, or premium. In other words, you have to pay for them. There's deal jumbo that has both free and premium and mighty deals, both free and premium. I get fonts from these different sites all the time. I absolutely love them.
So let's take a quick look at Google fonts. They have over 708 font families so you ought to be able to find something Like then the font, they have a I don't know how many a huge assortment of all kinds of different fonts. I especially like to look at the dingbats, go to dingbats. And these fonts come in all kinds of varieties. There's anything from banners, to ornaments, TVs, if you're into that sort of thing. There's all kinds of squigglies.
And you can even put a dinosaur. There's more decorations, social media items, trees, flowers, splat marks just about anything you could think of. And then a creative market. They're a little bit expensive, but they have lots of really very interesting different fonts. You can go ahead and explore that. Deal.
Jumbo has a lot of different display fonts and a lot of free fonts as well. You can go to the freebies, click fonts and explore those. Then it might be deals. Again, lots of Free fonts, you can pay for fonts too. But there are so many fun things you can get here. There's also icons, free download vector icons, all kinds of different things that you could add to your images for interest.
So font pairings. Now font pairings are already built into PowerPoint. Let's take a look. So if you go to the top and go to design, go over to the variants section. Click the drop down. Go to fonts, and you can see all the built in font pairings that are already here in PowerPoint, you can choose one of those.
You can also choose customize fonts, or you can just edit them as you go. You may want to use different fonts so you can emphasize certain words or add contrast in interest to your quote or text. So they should go together like wine and cheese, or beer and pizza. They should complement each other but not overwhelm each other. Also, keep in mind, you can use bold and italic. You can use all caps or all lowercase, or you can use colors like blue and gold to add emphasis or complement each other.
A couple of things to keep in mind. Your font should be easy to read on a small screen like we talked about before. And especially some scripts are really hard to read. Then you can use pairings of Sarah and Sam Sarah. My definition of Sarah is they've got the little doodads on the ends. The correct definition is a slight projection, finishing off of a stroke of a letter in certain typefaces.
I like doodads, but you know, you get the point. then here are a few font combinations. And I'm pretty sure that these are all Google fonts. There's bitter and lotto quicksand goes with Roboto carto and Open Sans and Creek round with the Bz. Also, I'll have some links in the handout for a couple of resources on font pairings. Okay, so these aren't built into PowerPoint but There are a couple of really cool typographic apps for either Android or iOS Word Swag and type or ama I use on my iPad.
And I often create my quote there and then bring it in to PowerPoint. There are also Android apps Word Swag and text swag. I don't use Android because I don't have an Android device. These apps run anywhere from free to about three bucks with the in app purchases. Let's look at a couple of examples. This one I made in Word Swag, the one in the middle and the one on the right I made in type arama.
They're all the exact same quote, but they've been created differently in the apps. It's as simple as entering your text and clicking a button to get these awesome results. That's it for fonts and font pairings. see in the next video