Custom Fonts

The Custom Font Uploader lets you upload your own TTF, OTF, or WOFF fonts for use on any menu. For example, if you own or license a font that you use with your branding or marketing materials, you can upload that font and use it on your menus as well, to keep your branding consistent.

Custom Font Buttons

You can upload a font by clicking the Upload Font button or browse previously uploaded fonts in your font collection by clicking the browse Custom Font box which is directly below the iMenuPro Font Family list.

To remove a font and return to the iMenuPro font, click the red Remove button when it appears.

To delete a custom font, browse to your custom fonts by clicking the browse Custom Font box and select the font you want to delete from your custom font list. Then click Delete Font and confirm the delete. Please note, once a custom font is deleted, if it was used on any other menus, it will be removed from those menus as well since the font will no longer be in the system.

Note

Before uploading a font, make sure your font is appropriately licensed for use in other applications. If you do not own the font or it’s not properly licensed to you, do not upload the font. If you receive a message during upload that says the font is not appropriately licensed, try uploading a WOFF version if you have one. If not, contact the font vendor that distributes the font to obtain one without Restricted License Embedding. If downloading an entire family of fonts from Google Fonts or another vendor, and they supply a ZIP file, unzip it first. You cannot upload a zipped file containing multiple font files—you must upload individual font files ending with .ttf, .woff, or .otf extensions.

Color Fonts

Color fonts (also known as Multicolor fonts) are a new, exciting evolution of digital typography that is now supported by iMenuPro.

Most normal fonts do not hold color information—you choose the color manually in the app, and the fonts are rendered in that color. Color fonts, on the other hand, contain color information, and usually multicolor information, in the font itself. This new technology allows font designers to bring rich graphic features like color patterns, gradients, and textures right into the font itself, allowing for dramatic results.

Example of the color font Color Tube used on a menu

With iMenuPro’s Custom Font Uploader, you can now add color fonts, like Color Tube, to your menus. Many of these fonts are given away free under the Creative Commons license. As a premium account user, you can simply download the font, then upload it into iMenuPro.

Free Color Font Recommendations

• Color Tube from Neogrey

Color Tube color font

• Bixa Color from Novotypo

Bixa color font

• Fattern from Neogrey

Fattern color font

Simply download the fonts you want, and then upload the OTF font files using iMenuPro’s Custom Font Uploader.

Note

Color font technology is currently supported by most major browsers, except for Google Chrome and Microsoft’s new Edge. In Chrome/Edge, you’ll see the font as a normal non-color font. However, iMenuPro PDF menus will still render your menus with the correct colors for color fonts.