Flyers

Flyer fonts

A flyer does not use a heading font and a body font. It uses one family, and the theme's type scale does the rest: nineteen named sizes from a display headline down to a footer line, each with its own weight. Changing the font changes one thing and the whole page follows.

Create a flyer with OneCraftThe twenty seven families, how sizing works, and what a global font change quietly resets
The Fonts tab of the flyer theme panel, each font name set in its own typeface
The font list, with each name drawn in the face it applies. The theme default sits at the top.

Twenty seven families, eighteen sans and nine serif or display

Inter, Montserrat, Poppins, DM Sans, Plus Jakarta Sans, Space Grotesk, Work Sans, Lexend, Lato, Raleway, Ubuntu, Roboto, Mulish, PT Sans, Open Sans, Source Sans Pro, IBM Plex Sans and Outfit on the sans side. Playfair Display, Merriweather, Lora, Cormorant Garamond, Libre Bodoni, Gilda Display, Crimson Text, IBM Plex Serif and Big Shoulders Display on the serif and display side.

The picker previews every row in its own family

The Fonts tab sits beside Themes in the same panel. The first row is Theme default with the current family named after it, then the twenty seven. Each row renders in the font it names, so you are reading the letterforms rather than a label. Opening the tab loads the whole catalogue at four weights, so previews are real rather than approximated.

One family, nineteen sizes

The theme's type scale names every size the design can use, from display and h1 through subtitle, body, caption, eyebrow and page number. A design assigns each slot a name from that scale rather than a pixel value, so swapping the family keeps every relationship intact. That is why a serif substitution does not break a layout built with a sans.

Overriding one block

The inspector's Text style section carries its own Font control listing Theme default plus the same twenty seven. Use it when a single headline wants a display face and the rest of the flyer does not. It stores the family stack on that element rather than a font id, which is what keeps it independent of the global choice.

A global change clears the per element ones

Choosing a new font in the Fonts tab strips every per element font override on every page and at every canvas size first. That is deliberate, so the global choice actually wins rather than being ignored by whichever blocks you had customised. If you want a display headline and a different body face, set the global font first and then override the headline.

How it works, in three steps

  1. Step 1

    Open the Theme control, then the Fonts tab

    Themes and Fonts are two tabs in the same panel.

  2. Step 2

    Pick a family and watch the canvas

    It applies immediately across every page. Theme default returns you to the theme's own family.

  3. Step 3

    Override a single block if you need to

    Select the element, open the inspector, and use the Font control inside Text style.

The full walkthrough with screenshots is in the guide Change a flyer's colours and fonts with themes.

Limits worth knowing

See it on a finished piece

Questions people ask

Can I upload a brand font?

No. The twenty seven catalogue families are the whole set, and they are loaded from Google Fonts at four weights each.

Why can I not type an exact point size?

Because slots reference a named step in the theme's type scale rather than a pixel value. The Size control lists each step with its pixel size and weight beside it, so you can see what you are choosing.

My headline got smaller when I added words. Why?

Text blocks shrink to fit their slot rather than overflowing. On a print sized flyer that is barely visible; on a Facebook cover it is the difference between readable and not, so shorten the words rather than hunting for a size control.

Which font prints best at poster size?

The higher contrast display faces, Playfair Display, Libre Bodoni and Gilda Display, look expensive large and get thin small. The grotesques, Inter, Work Sans and Lexend, stay legible at both, which is why they suit a flyer carrying prices and phone numbers.

Make your own flyer

The button opens the generator with this use case already described. Change the wording to match yours, generate, then edit anything you like.

Create a flyer with OneCraft

Related pages

More finished work of this kind is on the flyer examples hub.