Video fonts

Eighteen sans faces

Plus Jakarta Sans, which is the default, Inter, Montserrat, Poppins, DM Sans, Space Grotesk, Work Sans, Lexend, Lato, Raleway, Ubuntu, Roboto, Mulish, PT Sans, Open Sans, Source Sans 3, IBM Plex Sans and Outfit. These are the workhorses. A promo headline set at two hundred pixels or more wants a face with a tight, even weight distribution, which is why Space Grotesk, Outfit and Montserrat show up so often in the looks.

Eight serifs and one condensed display

Playfair Display, Merriweather, Lora, Cormorant Garamond, Libre Bodoni, Gilda Display, Crimson Text and IBM Plex Serif, plus Big Shoulders, which is a tall condensed face. Serifs earn their place on anything that should read considered rather than urgent: a law firm, a bookshop, a gallery, a heritage brand. Cormorant Garamond and Gilda Display in particular have the fine strokes that need large type, which a video happily provides.

Why one family, not a pair

In the catalogue every entry sets the display face and the body face to the same family. A video has very little text on screen at once, usually a headline and one supporting line, so a second typeface adds a contrast the eye does not need and a risk that two faces disagree in the half second a scene is up. Weight, size and colour carry the hierarchy instead.

Loaded properly, not requested at render time

Each family is loaded through Remotion's Google Fonts loader, and the render waits for the font to finish loading before it draws a frame. That matters because a font that arrives late produces the classic fallback flash, and in a video that flash is baked into the file rather than being a momentary glitch in a browser.

How it works, in three steps

1. Step 1

   Start from the look

   Every look already pairs a typeface with its palette, so switching look is the fastest way to change the typography sensibly.

2. Step 2

   Override on the font tab

   The theme panel has a separate font tab, so you can keep a look's colours and swap only its typeface.

3. Step 3

   Check the longest line

   Find the scene with the most words and look at it in both formats. A face that reads well wide can wrap badly in the narrow frame.

The full walkthrough with screenshots is in the guide Make a promo video with AI voiceover.

Limits worth knowing

• One family applies to the whole video. There is no separate headline and body typeface, and no per scene font.
• The catalogue is 27 Google families. Uploading your own font file is not supported.
• Font size is set per slot in the inspector, with a per format override, but the family is a document wide setting.
• Captions use the body font, which is the same family, at 26 pixels in landscape and 30 in vertical, and that size is fixed.

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