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Fonts and font licences

Add your brand's own font files to a kit, and why Showreel Studio asks you to confirm their licence.

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If your brand's type is not on Google Fonts, you can put the font files in the kit. They are then embedded in everything the kit makes, so films and decks look the same on every machine and in the cloud.

Why the licence tick matters

Embedding means the font travels inside the films, walkthroughs and decks the kit makes, and a deck can be shared publicly. So Showreel Studio adds a font only after you confirm its licence allows that. Owning an app does not always mean you may embed its fonts elsewhere. Check with whoever licensed the font if you are not sure.

Add a font

In the app

  1. Open Kits, then Edit on one of your project's kits.
  2. In the Fonts card, choose the files. They can be .woff2, .woff, .ttf or .otf, up to 4 MB each.
  3. Tick Its licence lets me embed it in films and decks, which may be shared publicly.
  4. Press Import. The family, weight and style are read from each file. A variable font covers all its weights in one file.
  5. Choose the family under Type, Deck or Overlays, then Save kit.

In the terminal

showreel kits font acme add AcmeSans-Regular.woff2 AcmeSans-Bold.woff2 --licensed

List a kit's fonts, or remove one:

showreel kits font acme list
showreel kits font acme remove font-acme-sans-700.woff2

Fonts your app serves itself

When you make a kit from your app, fonts the app serves itself come in as files only if you tick the licence box. If you did not, the kit names the family and the files wait. The kit's page shows Waiting: with the fonts; tick the box and press Bring them in when you are ready. In the terminal:

showreel kits font acme bring --licensed

The app must be running for this to work.

Good to know

  • A font collection (.ttc) cannot be added. Export the one face you need as .ttf, .otf or .woff2.
  • A kit shared with your organisation carries its fonts to every machine. All of a shared kit's files together must be under 10 MB.
  • Package and organisation kits are read-only. Duplicate one to your project to add fonts.

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