Writings & Thoughts

I work on Squarespace designing websites for clients, I also spend a little time helping fellow Squarespace users on their forum, through this I’ve found a number of common (and plenty of not so common) customizations and best practices that I hope will be useful to write up and place here for anyone to use, I hope something here helps you.

Custom Fonts on Squarespace 7.1
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Custom Fonts on Squarespace 7.1

Despite Squarespace having a huge and diverse selection of fonts, there are times that call for a typeface that is not readily available. Perhaps you are trying to keep a consistent brand identity or you just want something exciting and unique to help your website stand out from the crowd, there is a place on your Squarespace website for a custom typeface. Luckily the process is fairly straightforward and I’ll walk you through it here. In summary, you need to have your font file downloaded to your computer, upload it to Squarespace, reference it to give it a name, and lastly assign it to heading, paragraph, or a custom class text.

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