Using Font Ligatures with Canva Pro
Hey guys, in the video we take a closer look at accessing ligatures and other special font characters in Canva Pro, when using my La Luxes font.
Using a Mac Computer: 0:58
Using a Windows Computer: 2:45
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I have Canva pro, and the font La Luxes already exists, so how can i use those ligatures?
Hi Miriam, Canva don’t offer any way to access the ligatures in their software. Purchasing the full font version and pasting it via the method I’ve outlined here is the only way.
Hi! I’m trying to paste it on Canva but it just ignore the legature. I copy it with legature, and when I past it it just lose it.
Hi Lorenzo, which font are you using – is it La Luxes or something else?
Hi Sam, I was hoping to use this with your font Have Heart, but it doesn’t seem to work for the alternate capital A. Any advice?
Hi Rachel! I have a font called ‘Have Heart Alt’ which has replaced the regular characters with the alts, including the uppercase A, which you can install and use in Canva. I’ll e-mail that over to you now 🙂
Hi Sam,
We’re currently using your font “WICKED HEART,” but unfortunately, the ligatures don’t seem to work in Canva. Do you have any pro tips or suggestions to resolve this?
Thanks in advance!
Hi Andreas, happy to help with that! Could you forward your purchase receipt to sam@setsailstudios.com and I’ll get back to you with a fix.
Cheers
Sam
Hey Sam,
I reached out to the client regarding the invoice since they purchased the font. As soon as I receive it, I’ll get back to you.
Do you think the issue might be related to the .otf and .ttf formats?
Best,
Andi
No problem! Canva doesn’t provide any access of font ligatures so the font needs to be specially set up to allow a workaround. The Wicked Hearts font isn’t PUA encoded (yet). I just need to update that and send over a new version, and you can then use the copy and paste method mentioned in the video to get the ligatures into Canva.