Fonts for Tik Tok

When watching videos on TikTok, many users like it when text inserts appear. This adds a better understanding of what is happening on the screen. But the inscription can also repel the viewer if it looks bad. Therefore, it is important to choose the right fonts. This article is devoted to this topic. Let’s figure out what fonts for Tik Tok are and how to choose them.

Manual

Many popular videos are accompanied by the same subtitles so that a potential viewer can understand everything even without sound, for example, when he is riding in public transport without headphones. But at the same time, he should be comfortable reading.

Different fonts can be selected in two scenarios:

• When entering a display name in a profile. Not to be confused with username.
• When adding text inserts in the video itself.

Let’s consider each of them in more detail.

Add captions to video

During editing, you can add text to the video. This is done as follows:

1. Start creating a new TikTok in the app.
2. Go to the editing stage.
3. Activate the “Text” element.
4. Enter a suitable label using the virtual keyboard.
5. On the bottom panel, select the color you like.
6. Use the A icon to add a stroke or background if needed.
7. Alignment can be selected using the icon next to it.
8. Then choose one of the several suggested fonts.
9. Click Done to finish.

The user can choose from 5 built-in fonts:

• Classic – classic.
• Typewriter – Typographic, with larger letters.
• Handwriting – handwritten, slant to the right. But it is only suitable for symbols and Latin letters, it does not work with Cyrillic.
• Neon – similar to classic, but with a neon stroke.
• Serif – with serifs.

When the caption is already added to the video, you can:

• Press one finger to move it.
• Rotate and resize by pinching two fingers.
• Set the time period in which it is displayed by clicking once and selecting the appropriate item.
• Change text.

Unfortunately, these are all fonts available in the TikTok mobile app. But the user can add his own, there are several ways to do this:

• Copy the text with the desired design and paste it into the video.
• Creates a transparent image with styled text and inserts it into the movie.

Let’s consider each of them in turn.

Copy and paste

The meaning of this method is that in the text field in the Tik Tok application, you can insert an inscription that already contains the design: a certain font, style, special characters, etc. It is very easy to get such an inscription using online conversion services text. Let’s look at this procedure using the handy site Finewords as an example.

Step-by-step instruction:

1. Launch a convenient browser on your mobile device and search for “Finewords beautiful fonts”.
2. Go to the desired site.
3. In the top box, type some text to convert further.
4. Activate the slider “Click to show…” if these are Russian letters.
5. Scroll down the page until you find a match.
6. Click on the Copy button below it.
7. Go back to the Tik Tok app and start adding text.
8. Long tap on the input field to bring up the context menu.
9. Select “Insert”.
10. Change the appearance as desired and click the Done button.
11. Complete the editing procedure by selecting the optimal size, position and display time of the caption.

There are a large number of services on the Internet where you can copy text with ready-made design. But basically they are only suitable for Latin letters and do not work well with Cyrillic. Let’s briefly mention the most popular:

• Finewords – we just analyzed its use, differs in support for Cyrillic.
• TextGenerator is a limited set of fonts, but each of them looks stylish in its own way.
• PrettyFont is a handy preview service.

Create images with text

When shooting a video in the application itself, you can add an image that will be displayed on top of everything. The point is that as such an image, you can use a transparent inscription with the desired design. This method has three major drawbacks:

• Adding a transparent image is only possible when recording a TikTok video. If you add a video that has already been shot, it will not work.
• Only one label can be added.
• Creating such an image is somewhat difficult.

Let’s look at this procedure using the TextDrom service as an example. It is most convenient to use it from a computer, but it is also possible on a mobile device.

Step-by-step instruction:

1. Go to the official website https://textdrom.com/.
2. Choose one of the appropriate skins. It should be static, not animated. We’ll take “PNG neon text”.
3. In the “Text, font” section, enter the desired inscription.
4. Change its color and font if you wish, don’t touch the size.
5. Visit the Background tab.
6. Make it so that the minimum width of the region is 600 and the height is 500. If one of the parameters is greater, then do not change it.
7. Activate the option “Transparent Background”.
8. Click the “Save” button.
9. Load the suggested png-file.
10. Move it to the memory of your mobile device in any convenient way, for example, via a USB connection.

Now the resulting image can be added to Tik Tok. For this:

1. Start recording video inside apps.
2. Activate Effects item.
3. Scroll the Backgrounds tab to the very bottom and tap on the marked icon:
4. Click on the plus sign and select a transparent image from the device gallery.
5. Move it to a convenient location on the screen and finish creating the video.

There are a huge number of services and applications with which you can make stylish text and translate it into a transparent picture. We have considered only one of the possible ways. If you decide to use something else, then remember the size recommendation. TikTok won’t embed an image smaller than 480px by 360px, but 600px by 500px or larger is best.

Change the display name

The user’s name is displayed at the top of the user’s profile. It can look different due to the use of fonts. There is no choice directly in the application, but the first method from this article works (Copy and Paste). You can edit your name like this:

1. Copy the text for future pasting first.
2. Visit the “Profile” tab by tapping on the corresponding item on the bottom bar.
3. Go to profile editing by clicking on the button of the same name under the list of subscribers.
4. Click on the box “Name”.
5. Delete the current text and hold your finger on the input area to select the context menu.
6. Select “Insert”.
7. Save your changes and close the editing page.

Summing up

The mobile version of TikTok already has 5 fonts for text decoration, but only 4 of them are suitable for Cyrillic. This is where the standard features of the application are limited. But users can copy and paste already designed inscriptions using special services or use transparent pictures with text.

The first option is much more convenient in nature, but the second gives more options. Therefore, each of them can be useful when creating TikTok videos.