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PicMonkey, the free photo editing website, has had a massive, game-changing update that lets you make the most of your images: you can use your own fonts. Your choice of fonts has become instantly unlimited. If you have a font on your computer, you can use it in PicMonkey — for free!
If you’re crafting an image for a holiday card or creating a brochure for your company, you may want to put as much effort into choosing the font as you do in choosing the image.
Font Matters
Whether or not you’re a big fan of fonts, you may be surprised at the impact that fonts can have. Your message can be received loud and clear or lost in translation based on the type of font you use.
Unconvinced? Try using Comic Sans on your resume. Unless you’re applying for a job as a preschool teacher, chances are you won’t win over any prospective employers.
➠ See, Business 2 Community, Exactly How Much Does Your Font Matter? for a fascinating analysis on the impact of fonts.
You don’t have to use your own fonts in PicMonkey. The site comes complete with dozens of fonts you can use for free, such as Serif, Sans Serif, Display, Script, Santa Script, Cool Characters, Party Characters, etc. But the ability to use your own fonts means your choices are truly unlimited.
➠ Head to PicMonkey – Make the Most of Your Pictures for more information on using PicMonkey.
For example, if you want to create your own holiday cards you can use your own Christmas or winter fonts:
Moving to New York? Use a New York font to create a moving announcement:
Want to share pictures of your garden? Use a garden font!
Using PicMonkey Fonts
After you upload an image to PicMonkey, click on the Tt icon in the left menu.
At the top of the left menu you’ll see tabs for Ours and Yours. Ours is PicMonkey’s selection, Yours is, well, your font library.
Choose Ours and you’ll be shown a selection of PicMonkey fonts available for you to use. Note that most PicMonkey fonts are free but some fonts are limited to Royale members. (You can get a Royale membership for $4.99/month or $33/year).
Update: PicMonkey is now offering a one month free trial of Royale. You don’t need Royale to use your own fonts but you may want to check out the cool Royale features for free!
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— PicMonkey (@PicMonkeyApp) December 2, 2014
How to Use Your Own Fonts on PicMonkey
You may find all the fonts you need with PicMonkey. But you don’t have to stop there. You can use your own fonts to have limitless design possibilities.
Here’s a video from PicMonkey showing you how to use your own fonts with PicMonkey:
Click on the Yours tab at the top of the Font menu and you’ll be shown an alphabetical list of your fonts.
Click on the font you want to use, then click on the Add Text box. When you start typing in the text box, your font choice will appear.
Don’t like what you see? Highlight the text you want to change, and choose a different font. Keep testing them out until you find the font you want.
➠ Also check out, 6 Easy Tools To Beautify Your Quotes!
Getting Your Own Fonts
If your font library on your computer isn’t as plentiful as you’d like, then you can easily get more fonts for free. Check out guest author Ashvini Kumar Saxena’s article Fun with Fonts! that guides you how you can get more fonts on your computer.
Dafont
Be sure to head to Dafont to find a large collection of fonts, many of which are free for you to add to your computer’s font library. Dafont also has instructions on how to add fonts to your computer. It’s easy!
You can browse through Dafont’s font categories such as
- Cartoon
- Comic
- Groovy
- Old School
- Curly
- Fire, Ice
- Decorative
- Typewriter
- Stencil, Army
- Retro
- Initials
and Holiday fonts such as
- Christmas
- Valentine
- Easter
- Halloween
If you’re designing holiday cards, be sure to check out Dafont’s extensive collection of Christmas fonts.
➠ Don’t miss The Graphics Fairy tutorial Create a Holiday Photo Card in PicMonkey for some inspiration and instruction!
➠ Also see Fixing Your Font Size!
Your Thoughts
Are you a fan of fonts? Have you been using your own fonts on PicMonkey? Do you like the idea of having unlimited access to fonts? Have you ever added more fonts to your computer? Let us know in the Comments section below!
* New York City Skyline image courtesy of Thomas Hawk via Flickr and Creative Commons
Hi Carolyn,
Oh yes…I love using different fonts too, and Picmonkey is a great choice there 🙂
So glad I knew something before you wrote about it here…lol…but jokes apart, I love the ‘ours’ and ‘your’ category they’ve made and it certainly makes it easier for us to choose from the long list of fonts they have there. Still need to check out the lovely Christmas ones at Dafont, though I think you need to download and then use them, unlike Picmonkey? Need to check it out.
Thanks for sharing. Have a nice week ahead 🙂
Hi Harleena, Yes, I’m glad you knew about using your own fonts on PicMonkey already. This is such a useful feature on PicMonkey, your choice of fonts has become endless! PicMonkey keeps adding new fonts but you don’t have to wait for that, you can use your own favorite font!
You’re right, you have to download new fonts to your computer so they can be added to your font library. But once they’re there, PicMonkey finds them and they appear in your Yours tab.
I hope you enjoy using your fonts on PicMonkey, Harleena!
Great information as always:) Thanks! Kaarina
Hi Kaarina, I’m so glad you found this helpful. You could use PicMonkey to add your fonts to your beautiful Waterlogue images!
I have downloaded different fonts on my computer to use for web design, image creation and many different greeting cards over the years. It’s great that PicMonkey lets us incorporate our own fonts now for free.
Thank you for including a website where to find great looking fonts as well. I love the snow capped Santa’s Air Mail font and will probably use it for this year’s Holiday greeting card. 🙂
Hi Silke, Yes, Ashvini told me about Dafont and I quickly became a fan. That’s great you use fonts for your greeting cards, web design and more! PicMonkey really helped a lot of people by allowing us to use our own fonts. Now people don’t have to request that PicMonkey add fonts to their library (though they continue to do so). I’m so glad this helped you, Silke. Thanks for taking the time to let us know.
It’s really a great news for web designers and many other people.Thanks a lot for sharing this much useful information on PicMonkey. Love to share this post.
Hi Jackie, Welcome to The Wonder of Tech! You’re right, PicMonkey adding this feature so you can use your own fonts is a major bonus for many people. We really can personalize our images now in unlimited ways.
Thanks so much for taking the time to comment and for sharing this article, Jackie!
Hi Carolyn
Very useful post indeed.
If we admit that competition is growing everywhere then why not in formatting every type of text.
You well mentioned several sample images in your wonderful post to prove how important it is to pick a font as per background of the topic.
We can’t use dancing font on the occasion of any tragic incident or a very funny font while creating a serious piece of writing.
Picmonkey is both free and premium that is why one can first try its free version to later buy its premium membership and get the priced fonts.
Thanks for sharing this very informative post.
Hi Mi, Yes, you’re exactly right. Choosing the right font is imperative if you want to get your message across clearly. Now you have an unlimited choice of fonts you can use with PicMonkey so you can be sure to get just the right font onto your image text.
I use PicMonkey nearly every day so I have a paid Royale membership. I use almost all of its features so the price of the membership seems like a bargain to me. But for those who don’t use it as much, a free option is available with loads of features.
I hope you enjoy using PicMonkey, Mi!
Hey Carolyn,
I really like that actually because there are a bunch of fonts I’ve uploaded that I really like and would love to use. Some of the ones I have PicMonkey makes you pay for so now I’m really excited about using my own.
I think I’ll make some holiday stationery this year. I send out a Christmas letter each year and with the clip art borders I’m started to run kind of low. It would be fun to create my own so you gave me a really great idea.
Thank you so much for sharing this and I certainly hope you’re having a wonderful week.
~Adrienne
Hi Adrienne, That’s fantastic. I’m so glad this article is helpful to you. I’m not surprised you have added to your font library and now you can use your own fonts for free on PicMonkey.
You may alway want to check out The Graphics Fairy for some fun, free graphics you can use to enhance your images and create your holiday cards!
Hello,
Awesome post.This post is very useful for all bloggers.I have downloaded different fonts on my computer to use for web design, many different greeting cards over the years. It’s great that PicMonkey lets us incorporate our own fonts now for free.
Thanks for writing and I hope that you’ll have a happy weekend.
Keep up your great work!
Regards,
Mohd arif
Hi Mohd, Welcome to The Wonder of Tech! I’m so glad you found this article helpful. You’re right, there are many uses for this new feature. Your choices of fonts become unlimited now that you can use your own fonts in PicMonkey. I was so excited when I learned of this new feature and I’m glad you are too!
Thanks so much for leaving your awesome comment, Mohd. 🙂
I am a huge PicMonkey fan. I recommend it to everyone. I am curios if there is a way to curve a line of font. There are times i’d like to have a word or words in a circular design or arch. Is there anyway to do this? My research has revealed nothing so far. Thanks!
Hi Chris, Welcome to The Wonder of Tech! It’s great to have a fellow PicMonkey fan join us here.
Yes, you can curve font at The Wonder of Tech, though it’s not an easy process. To curve text you Add Text one letter at a time and rotate the letter by dragging the circle icon at the top of the text box to the angle you want.
I wish there were a process to do this easily but so far, that’s the only way to curve text on PicMonkey. They offer curved banner stickers so you could use this manual process to add text to the curved banners if you’d like to use them.