

Not all of the free text styles will be Pinterest-useful, but let’s be super honest and admit that that’s the case for pretty much any design app. There are – I’m counting them as I type – 38 font styles available in the free version, with an added 15 styles if you choose to go Pro. (You can look at it as a drawback, but God knows watermarks aren’t insurmountable, and the app is stingy with less-useful stuff like special effects overlays, rather than with the Typo-component of its name, i.e. In this case, the two are distinguished from one-another by the presence of a watermark, and the limited number of font styles you can use. Like most apps on the market these days, Typorama has a free and a paid version. They all have their benefits and their drawbacks, of course (I mean, don’t we all), but hopefully at least one of the apps that I’ll be going over will make your life easier when it comes to designing graphics for your pins, your social media or your blog. Luckily, there are several apps* available that split their talents between a mild form of photo editing and some creative, text-based graphic design. So many others, too, who’d just like to have an easy to grasp alternative on hand. I’ve seen so many stressed, frazzled women online express their confusion, their overwhelm, their frustration with Canva. Odds are this might describe you as well, though. And the Canva app? Pretty, but never the smoothest for me, so that hasn’t helped.) (Plus, I love feeling like I’m not tied to my desk, so I do quite a bit of work on my tablet. I’ve never taken to it the way I have to other things – or, clearly, the way other bloggers / content creators / keen creatives have embraced it for their needs. Now, I knoooow about all the things that everyone loves, like the masses of templates and layouts, the speedy customisations, the free-ness and overall lack of cost… But it just hasn’t clicked for me. Though, on the other hand, did you know I’ve been hemming and hawing and sitting on this post for more weeks than is sane? Maybe I wasn’t as ready to share as I thought!) I am not at all the Canva fan that the whole entire internet keeps telling me I should be.
