📱 Best Platforms
Creative Market, Etsy, Envato Elements
📖 The Hustle
Design a collection of 5 bold display fonts in different decorative styles: retro serif, groovy 70s, modern geometric, elegant fashion, and playful rounded. Social media managers and content creators are always hunting for fresh display fonts that make their graphics pop in crowded feeds. A bundle of 5 fonts at $25-40 feels like incredible value compared to buying individual display fonts.
🚀 First Step
Choose one style (retro serif), find 5 reference fonts from the 1970s for inspiration, and draw the uppercase alphabet in FontForge with exaggerated serifs, high contrast, and a distinctive personality.
🔑 Keys to Success
- Design display fonts for impact at large sizes (36px+) — legibility at small sizes is irrelevant for this category, so you can focus entirely on personality and visual impact
- Create Instagram carousel templates using your fonts to show exactly how they look in real social graphics — showing the font in-use sells it better than any specimen sheet
- Name your fonts memorably and thematically — 'Velvet Rope', 'Cosmic Groove', 'Brutalist Bold' are browsable and memorable, unlike 'Display Sans 7'
🛠 Tools & Resources: FontForge (free), Canva (marketing graphics), Creative Market, Etsy, Instagram (marketing)