Customizing Fonts in Videos, Galleries, and Card Embeds

All Vocal Video plans let you customize the fonts in your videos, galleries, embedded video cards, and video collectors.

In this article:

What fonts can I use?

  • Free and Essential plans include our 10 Standard fonts. You can preview Pro fonts too, but you'll need to upgrade to publish videos with them.
  • Pro, Scale, and Enterprise plans add 60 Pro fonts.
  • Enterprise plans can also use custom fonts: we'll upload your exact brand fonts into your account. Contact support@vocalvideo.com to get started.

Standard, Pro, and Custom Fonts shows what the Standard and Pro fonts look like.

How to edit fonts in videos

Open a video in the video editor, click Design in the right sidebar, then open the Fonts tab. The fonts you choose here apply to your whole video.

The video editor with the Design panel open on the Fonts tab, which is marked, showing Teasers, Headlines, Body Text, Attribution Names and Attribution Titles

Each font is tied to a role and is used wherever that role appears in the video:

  • Teasers: the small text above headlines.
  • Headlines: titles on thumbnails, logo scenes, and text scenes.
  • Body Text: the text below headlines.
  • Attribution Names: the speaker's name in video scenes. Follows your Headlines font unless you change it.
  • Attribution Titles: the speaker's title in video scenes. Follows your Body Text font unless you change it.

Each video theme has its own default fonts. Choose Theme Default in a font menu to use the theme's font, or pick your own whenever you like. For a visual guide to where each font appears, click Where are these fonts used? at the bottom of the Fonts tab.

Caption font

Caption fonts are set in the Captions panel, not in Design. Click Captions in the right sidebar, open the Customize tab, then expand Text to choose a font. Auto follows your Body Text font. Some caption styles use a Pro font, so on Free and Essential plans you'll need to change the font before publishing. See Transcripts and Captions in Vocal Video.

The Captions panel's Customize tab, with collapsible Size and Position, Text, Active word, Colors, Background and Motion sections

Setting default fonts for new videos

Tired of making the same font changes in every new draft? New videos take their fonts from your default video template. Go to Video Templates in the left navigation, open the template marked as your default, and click Design, then the Fonts tab. New videos built from that template start with those fonts. See Video Templates: the Complete Guide.

How to edit fonts in video galleries

Vocal Video supports several types of video galleries: walls of love, grids, carousels, slideshows, and lists. Each can be embedded or shared as a standalone page.

To change a gallery's fonts, open the gallery, go to the Design tab, and expand Fonts. You can set the font for Headings & Quotes (your gallery's title and featured quotes) and for Secondary Text (the description and smaller text like names and titles).

A gallery's Design tab with the Fonts section expanded, showing Headings and Quotes and Secondary Text font menus set to System Default

When you change a gallery's fonts, any embeds of that gallery update automatically. The default, System Default, uses the default font of the viewer's operating system. Gallery fonts don't change the text in your video thumbnails; that's set in the video itself.

How to edit fonts in video cards

Video Cards combine a video player with an eye-catching featured quote, and are a popular way to embed Vocal Video videos. To create one, click Embed on a published video, then click Create a Video Card.

In the Video Card Builder, go to the Design tab and expand Fonts. You can change the Featured Quote Font, the Attribution Font, and the featured quote's font size.

The Video Card Builder's Design tab with Fonts expanded: Featured Quote Font, Attribution Font, Featured Quote Font Size and Quotation Mark, beside a live preview of the card

💡 You can also bold words in your quote and change the Accent Color to make them stand out.

How to edit fonts in video collectors

Your video collectors use the heading and body fonts in your Brand Kit. Go to Brand Kit and, under Video Collectors, choose a Heading Font and a Body Font. You can also change them from a collector's Branding step. They're part of your brand kit, so they apply to every collector in the workspace. Pro fonts need a Pro plan or above.

A collector's Branding panel with brand kit colors, a background image, and Heading Font and Body Font menus

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Still need help? Contact Support at support@vocalvideo.com

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