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    5 Reasons Why Canva is a Must-Have Tool for Online Business Owners

    Are you tired of struggling to create professional-looking graphics for your business? If so, you’re in luck! In this blog post, we’ll introduce you to Canva – a graphic design platform that makes it easy for anyone to create stunning visual content. Whether you’re a small business owner, marketer, or designer, Canva has something for you.

    What is Canva?

    Canva is a powerful tool that offers a wide range of features and benefits for online business owners. Here are just a few reasons why you should be using Canva for your business:

    1. Ease of use: Canva has a user-friendly interface that makes it easy for anyone to create professional-looking graphics, even if you don’t have design experience.
    2. Wide range design elements: Canva offers a wide range of graphics, and design elements that you can use to create a variety of visual content.
    3. Affordable: Canva offers a free plan as well as paid plans that are affordable for small businesses.
    4. Collaboration: Canva allows you to collaborate with other team members on projects, making it easy to work together to create visual content.
    5. Accessibility: Canva can be accessed from any device with an internet connection, making it easy to create and edit graphics on the go.
    6. Time-saving: Using Canva can save you time and effort compared to creating graphics from scratch or hiring a designer.
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    In Conclusion:

    There are several reasons why online business owners should be using Canva. Whether you’re looking to create professional-looking graphics for social media, marketing, or any other purpose, Canva is a useful tool that can help you save time and effort while producing stunning visual content. So why wait? Start using Canva today and see the difference it can make for your business! And don’t forget, you can try Canva Pro for free and see all of the amazing features it has to offer. Give it a try today and take your business to the next level!

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    4 Main Font Styles & Font Pairing Tips

    Yes, I’m slightly obsessed with fonts.  I won’t share how many fonts I currently have on my computer because you might call the font therapist on me, lol! 

    When I first started my design journey, I had no idea what I was doing but as time went by I’ve learned a ton about design.  I find that font pairing is a huge struggle for my clients.  Let’s chat about fonts, font psychology and why it’s important. 

    First off, font psychology is the study of how different fonts impact the viewers thoughts, feelings and behavior.  Understanding font psychology is important if your goal is to create impactful designs.

    The 4 main typography styles

    Serif Font

    Serif is the most traditional,  it evokes the feeling of trust, respect, tradition, class, formal, elegance and it is most commonly used in financial companies, fashion, and college brands.

    Some of my favorite Canva Serif Fonts:

    Abril Fatface, Alice, Abhaya Libra, Arapey, Bentham, Bodoni FLF, Brixton, Buenard, Cardo, Corben, Cormorant Garamond, Forum, Gilda Display, Hatton, Libre Baskerville, Lora, Lustria, Mak, Marcellus, Merriweather, Noto Serif Display, Ovo, Playfair Display SC, Prata, Quando, Quattrocento, Radley, RoxboroughCF, Rufina, Sahitya, Suranna, Unna, and Vidaloka

    Sans Serif Font

    Sans serif is a modern font and avoids decorative elements making them more readable.  This font evokes the feeling of straightforwardness, trustful, modern, clean and minimal.  It’s most commonly used in sports, technology, modern and startup brands. 

    Canva Sans Serif Fonts: Aileron Heavy, Alegreya Sans, Anton, Archivo Black, Barlow, Basic Title, Bebas Neue, Belleza, Brixton Sans, Caviar Dreams, Champagne & Limousines, Cooper Hewitt Heavy, Cuprum, Dosis, Fashionism, Francois One, Glacial Indifference, Josefin Sans, Kollektif, Lato, League Gothic, League Spartan, Libre Franklin, Mallanna, Mardoto, Maven Pro, Merriweather Sans, Montserrat, Muli, Noto Sans, Open Sans, Open Sauce, Oswald, Poppins, Prompt, Pt Sans, Quicksand, Raleway, Roboto, Signika, and  Titillium Web

    Script Font

    Script font is a more elaborate, detailed, and fancier look.  This font evokes the feeling of fancy, happy, elegant, creative and whimsical.  It’s most commonly used in food related companies, elegant, fashion, and child focused brands.

    Canva Script Fonts: Amsterdam Three, Angelina, Angella White, Apricots, Better Saturday, Blastine, Breathing, Brightwall, Brilliant Signature, Daydream, Feeling Passionate, Flatlion, Gellatio, Gistesy, Holiday,  Just Believe, Moontime, Regular Brush, Sisterhood, Virtual

    Decorative Fonts

    Decorative font is a versatile font that is typically used in logo designs.  It evokes the feeling of casual, fun, and uniqueness.  It’s most commonly used in food related companies and children focused brands. 

    My favorite decorative fonts are ones I’ve purchased on Teachers Pay Teachers, Creative Market or ones I’ve created. 

    Another element of fonts that is important to note is the weight of a font.  You can have a light, medium or bold weight.  

    Light font weight: thinner look, recommended to be used as paragraph text

    Medium font weight: most readable, standard look and is also recommended for paragraph text

    Bold font weight: thicker look, perfect for titles or headlines as it grabs the viewer’s attention



    Font Pairing

    Now that we know the 4 main typography styles, how do we put it all together to create the perfect font pairing?  Here are some tips to help you on your font pairing journey.   

    * Combine a serif style font with a sans serif font

    * Use the same font but contrast with the weight of the font 

    * Use 2 to 3 fonts max

    * Chunky font pairs well with a thinner font

    * Tight spacing with looser spacing 

    * Traditional font with a decorative font to add uniqueness 

    * Decorative heading with a traditional body

    * Contrast, contrast, contrast with font sizes, weight, color, spacing and style

    Let’s Review

    There are 4 main typography styles: serif, sans serif, script and decorative fonts.  You can use different weights in fonts such as light, medium or bold weight to make text stand out. As for font pairing, use the list above when creating your next font pair.

    Looking for templates to make the process super easy?

    The DIY Teacherpreneur is a template monthly subscription.  Each month you get a new set of Canva templates and an element guide.  I love the templates, but the elements guide is GOLD!  The guide is a catalog style of elements that you can copy and paste into your design.  It’s all about saving time, with this guide you have the cutest elements in one place.  No more spending hours looking for the perfect element.  Many of the elements you can adjust the color to match your brand, I know it’s AMAZING!

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    5 Must Know Canva Tips

    5 must know canva tips

    I’m all about working smarter, not harder!  These must know Canva tips will get you creating faster so you can get back to checking tasks off your to do list.

    In this post, you’ll learn the following Canva tips:

    * Canva Magic Resize
    * Canva Keyword Shortcuts
    * Add a Title & Comments to the Design 
    * Quickly copy from another design
    * Adding a Table to Your Design

    Canva Magic Resize

    It’s literally magic!  Basically, resize one design for multiple formats.  Click a button and you can resize a graphic to fit a different platform.  Save time with this feature!  Create one design, then magically resize with just one click.   

    This feature is a Canva Pro option.  If you don’t have Canva Pro yet, click her to try it for free for 30 days. 

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    Canva Keyboard Shortcuts

    Using keyboard shortcuts saves you time in creating in Canva!  
    I have a ton of keyboard shortcuts but I’ll share the ones I use the most below:
    * Click the “L” key to add a line
    * Click the “R” key to add a rectangle
    * Click Shift + Command + “K” key to transform text to uppercase
    * Click Command + “B” key to bold text
    * Click Command + “D” key to duplicate text or elements
    * Click Command + “C” to copy and Command + “V” to paste

    Adding a Title & Comments to the Design

    Using the comment and title section keeps me organized.  I start off by titling each design with the date that I anticipate to post it.  Then I add additional information in comments such as the platform the graphic is for or sometimes I jot down some notes that I want to include in the copy for the design.  

    Quick copy from another design

    Click on folder, then all designs, select the design you want to copy and it pastes it into your current page.  I love this trick!  This is especially helpful when you want to copy and paste a template into a page that you are working on.

    Adding a Table to your design

    Canva has made my creating dreams come true!  The new release of tables has got my creating heart all sorts of happy!  

    To add a table to your page, click on elements and search tables.  Select the table that you’d like to use.  Once the table is on the page you can add and subtract columns and rows.  You can resize rows, add color, text and adjust the border size.  It’s AMAZING!

    Let’s Review

    In this post, you learned about the 5 must know Canva tips to get you creating quicker.  They included the following:

    * Canva Magic Resize
    * Canva Keyword Shortcuts
    * Add a Title & Comments to the Design 
    * Quickly copy from another design
    * Adding a Table to Your Design

    Which one is your favorite?

    Looking for templates to make the process super easy?

    The DIY Teacherpreneur is a template monthly subscription.  Each month you get a new set of Canva templates and an element guide.  I love the templates, but the elements guide is GOLD!  The guide is a catalog style of elements that you can copy and paste into your design.  It’s all about saving time, with this guide you have the cutest elements in one place.  No more spending hours looking for the perfect element.  Many of the elements you can adjust the color to match your brand, I know it’s AMAZING!

    Join the The DIY TeacherPreneur community today!

    JOIN TODAY!