Text & typography
Fonts & the Font Book
Every piece of text on a Canvas has a typeface, and Popcorn Editor gives you three ways to choose it: a quick picker for fonts you use often, a full browser for everything else, and the option to bring in your own font files. Here's how each one works.
Change a font quickly
Select some text — or double-click into a text frame and highlight a range — and open the Font control in the Properties panel on the right. Clicking it drops down a compact picker with a Search fonts box at the top.
The list starts as a shortlist: fonts already used in this design, families from a pinned brand kit, anything you've starred, and a set of sensible defaults. Start typing and the picker also searches the full catalog, so any font is reachable without leaving the menu. Pick one and it applies immediately to your selection.
When you want to see more — previews, categories, your uploads — click Browse all fonts… at the bottom of the picker to open the full library.
The Fonts browser
Browse all fonts… opens the Fonts browser, a full-screen modal over the dark studio. The header tells you how many faces you're looking at (for example 128 typefaces), and gives you three controls:
- A Preview size slider (marked with a small A and a large A) that scales the live previews from compact to poster-sized.
- A Search fonts box to filter by name.
- An Upload font button for bringing in your own files (see below).
Down the left is a sidebar of categories. The main area is a grid of cards, each showing the letters Ag rendered in that actual typeface, with the family name beneath.
Categories
The sidebar groups the library so you can browse by feel rather than scrolling one long list:
| Category | What's in it |
|---|---|
| All Fonts | The complete library, in one grid |
| Shortlist | Fonts you've starred, for fast reuse |
| Uploaded | Font files you've added yourself |
| Sans Serif · Serif · Display · Handwriting · Monospace | The built-in library, sorted by style |
| Computer | Fonts detected on your own device |
Click any card to apply that font to the current selection and close the browser.
Shortlisting
If you keep reaching for the same handful of faces, star them. Hover a card and click the star in its corner to Add to shortlist; click it again to Remove from shortlist. Starred fonts collect under the Shortlist category and float to the top of the quick Font picker, so your go-to typefaces are always one click away.
Tip: simply clicking a font to use it also adds it to your shortlist automatically — the fonts you actually work with build up over time.
Uploading fonts
Need a specific brand typeface that isn't in the library? Click Upload font and choose a file. Popcorn Editor accepts .ttf, .otf and .woff2. The font is added to your Uploaded category and applied to your current selection right away, ready to use anywhere in your workspace like any other font.
Uploading is the reliable choice for a font that has to travel — because the file lives with your design, it renders the same for you, for collaborators, and in every export.
Use my system fonts
The Computer category surfaces the fonts installed on the device you're working on, so you can design with a face you already own without hunting down the file. Cards here are labelled On this device.
By default Popcorn Editor detects a common set of installed fonts automatically. To see your full local collection, click Use my system fonts — your browser will ask permission to read the fonts on your computer, and once you grant it the grid fills out with everything you have installed.
The sharing caveat
System fonts come with one important limitation, and the browser spells it out with an amber notice:
Fonts from your computer render for you and in your exports, but show a fallback for others opening this design.
In other words, a system font is tied to your machine. It looks right on your screen and in the files you export, but a teammate opening the same design won't have that font installed, so their view falls back to a substitute — and the layout can shift.
If a design will be shared, forked, or edited by someone else, prefer a font from the built-in library or upload the font file instead. Either choice makes the typeface part of the design itself, so it looks identical for everyone. This matters most for print work, where an unexpected substitution can quietly change line breaks and spacing right before a file goes to press.
Where to go next
Now that the type looks right, learn how the frame that holds it behaves in Adding & editing text, or see how fonts carry through to output in the Export dialog.