What is the Typography Forum's opinions on Canva and the fonts available on there for free? I am 17 and I love typography, I like Canva because of the font selections. There is Proxima Nova, Gotham, Gill Sans, Futura, Times NR, Arial, Calibri, Aptos, Verdana, Georgia, as well as other fonts available freely in Canva (yes, including Comic Sans, Consolas, Cambria, and Papyrus.) I like Canva in particular because it's a legal way to legally get fonts while using the website or app (and I'm on Android). I've always found the font selections on Canva's free plan to be good. I like Nunito Sans, Proxima Nova, Times New Roman, Gill Sans, Futura, Lato, and EB Garamond's design. And a lot more others. Futura in particular has a lot of weights, so does Avenir Next Arabic for free users (and even the OFL font Nunito Sans). I have made an image showing four of the fonts. All fonts are nice, I even wrote something in a lower-third about supporting font creators (using Proxima Nova fonts via Canva), as a lower third. I found this forum and I like it because typefaces and fonts is one of my interests (I am autistic). I also read Canva owns Affinity (and I don't have a computer yet but I'd probably use both when I do.) Do you think Canva's free font selection is good enough (or the app itself is good to use for typography on Android)? Sorry for my writing style here 😅 and in the typography image's lower third (I've disliked AI a lot.)

I work on a Windows computer, not an Android tablet, so I have access to most of those fonts without Canva. I have never used Canva -- I have no reason to use it.

Times New Roman is a ubiquitous and "safe" font, but it is generally not the best (or the worst) choice for anything. One good thing about it is that almost any computer system in the universe has Times New Roman installed, so you virtually never have to worry about a document formatted with Times New Roman not displaying correctly on a different computer.

All of these fonts are available outside of Canva -- several are bundled with Mac, Windows OS, or MS Office.

Lato and EB Garamond are open source.

It's hard to have an opinion on a font outside of a subjective context. That said: I would never use Arial while Helvetica exists. And I'm not a big fan of the MS Office "C" fonts, which all feel a bit 'generic'.