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The Figma Design Tool
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The Editor in Figma
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3
Basic Tools
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Position, Size, Rotation, & Corner Radius properties
1:27
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Color Styles
1:13
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Masks
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Gradients
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Creating Backgrounds
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Fill, Stroke, & Advanced Stroke
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Text Properties and Styles
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Google Fonts and Custom Fonts
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Prototyping
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Version History
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San Francisco Fonts
The system font for Apple platforms is San Francisco which is made in-house by Apple. You can download the new fonts at this link. It’s beautiful, free and most importantly, designed for legibility. I encourage you to watch the video to understand how it affects the design for iOS.
Over the years, San Francisco has grown in parallel with an eco-system of products and experiences, providing new width styles, variants and families capable of adapting to the various needs of UI design.
Font Pairing
When it comes to creating your own font pairing, you should look for fonts that are similar in style and tone. The easiest way to do this is to start with one font, then search for another that is similar in design. For example, if you're looking for a bold font then choose another bold font. If you're looking for a thin font then choose another thin font. This will help ensure that your final product looks good and consistent from start to finish!
Every style is functional in its own right, but depending on the context, some will perform better than others. Combined with the regular width, we can pair other styles without using a custom font.
Variable Fonts
Variable font is a new font format that allows you to change the weight, width, and style of your fonts at any size. The advantage of using Variable Font will be like using many different fonts in one graphic. Most SF families come with a comprehensive palette of weights, spanning from Ultralight to Black, providing enough stylistic variation to create emphasis and typographic hierarchies.
Type Settings
OpenType variable fonts allow you to draw typography with very complex geometries while creating one font file, rather than hundreds. Variable fonts are calculated and accessed along one axis or several axes. A variable font needs to have at least one to be variable font. Five typical axes are included in the current OpenTypes specifications: Weight, Width, Optical size, Italic and Slant.
- To customize your font size, click on your text, select the Variable Properties, then select Variable font axes.
- The weight of a font refers to the thickness of the strokes in a typeface. If it is thin the number will be low and if heavy it will be high.
- The optical size in variable font is a useful tool to display words in a proper size and allows a designer to fine tune the weight and width of characters, allowing typography that scales without pixels and looks great at any size.
Paid Fonts
Paid fonts often deliver a much higher standard and quality than free fonts. Production of these paid fonts are the work of professional typographers and designers who wish to sell their fonts to anyone who wants permission to use them. Instagram is a great way to connect with your audience and build brand awareness. But many brands still struggle to make their marketing efforts on the platform effective. With this list of 30 fonts for social media branding, you’ll find the perfect font for your next Instagram post!
Font Family
A font family is a set of characters of the same design. They include letters, numbers, punctuation marks and glyphs. There are thousands of typefaces available, it's important to not mix several typefaces. This can make your design feel fragmented and clumsy, so you have to carefully curate and limit the usage to 2-3 typefaces.
Fonts in Figma
Figma allows you to use any font that you've installed locally on your machine. Furthermore, you also have access to numerous Google Fonts. To see the whole catalog, head over here.
- To gain access to any of the pairing, click on Get this pairing
- Once you are taken to the webpage of that particular pairing, click on Get this file and it'll open the file in Figma directly
Desktop App
If you've the desktop app for Figma installed, you can use any of the fonts that are installed on your computer. In case you don't have the app installed, you can go to this page to install it. You can use the fonts via the font picker.
Figma Font Helper
In case you're using Figma in the browser and you'd like to have access to all the local fonts in your browser, you'll need to download the Figma Font Helper. Before you download it, please make sure that your browser is supported- Browser Requirements. Now, let's install it!
- In the Figma dashboard, click on your name in the top-left
- Then, in Account Settings, head to the Fonts section
- Click the Download Installer to enable local fonts button. Alternatively, you can download it from the downloads page as well
- Once it's done downloading, run the installer and follow the instructions
Conclusion
In this tutorial, we went over how to enable and use custom fonts and google fonts in Figma. Also try not to go overboard on picking fonts, limit the usage to 2-3 fonts, so that the design doesn't feel fragmented and clumsy.
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