Using Custom Fonts

Typeface is part of a poem's voice. Custom fonts let your work look the way you hear it, whether that's an old-style serif, a typewriter face or your own handwriting turned into a font.

Where your fonts live

Your font collection is under Settings › Appearance, in Your Fonts. Any font you add there appears in the composer's font picker, on the web and in the app.

Adding a font

From Google Fonts

1. Open Your Fonts and choose Add a font.
2. Pick the Google Fonts tab.
3. Search by name (for example, "Playfair") and choose Add.

From your own file

1. Choose Add a font, then the Upload file tab.
2. Choose a .ttf, .otf or .woff2 file, up to 10 MB.
3. Give it a display name, such as "My Handwriting", and upload it.

Uploaded fonts are scanned for safety before they can be used. You'll see "Scanning…" until the check finishes.

Using a font in a poem

In the composer, open Appearance and pick your font from the font picker. The built-in choices are there too, including the default Stanza font, and you can return to the default at any time.

Where your fonts show

Your chosen fonts style your poems and your profile: a poem’s title and body, the composer’s preview, and your profile’s name, bio and pinned poem. They never change the app itself. Menus, buttons, settings and notifications always use Stanza’s own typefaces. Readers see a poem in the fonts its poet chose, and an anonymous poem never reveals whose font it uses.

Managing your collection

• Set as active font: make one font your go-to.
• Remove: take a font out of your collection.
• Rescan: if a file was flagged during the safety scan, you can queue it to be checked again.

Good to know

• Fonts are public. Readers' devices need to download your font to display your poem, so uploaded font files can be reached through a public link. Only upload fonts you have the right to share.
• Check the licence. Google Fonts are free to use. For anything else, make sure its licence allows web use.