Chosing Fonts For Your Customization
If you are looking to add text to your shoes and/or apparel order, you want to make sure that you are choosing a font that will work well for what you want to use it for. See below for tips and hints on how to choose a great font for your order.
We know you are probably not a digital artist and the information below may seem greek to many of our users. The most important thing to understand is that our shoe designers are professionally trained digital artists. If you don’t specify any particular edits to your text, rest assured, our designers will use all the tools at their disposal to make your text edits look great. We may use several of the design edits below and we will choose a font that looks great and fits your text for you. Just know that you have as much control as you want over your text customization – if you want it…
Some common text effects you can request with any text customization include:
- Single Stroke: Tell us what color you want and we’ll outline your text in that color
- Double Stroke: First color listed is the inner border and the second color you specify will be the outer border
- Gradient: Give us two colors and we’ll make your text transition between the two colors. Specify which color is on top when chosing this
- Outer Glow: This is great with dark text on a background with some color so your text will stand out. If not specified, we will chose the glow color that best works for your shoes. Outer glow can be ANY color
- Drop Shadow: Just like it sounds. Adds a shadow effect to your text to give it more depth and to help it stand out.
Choose from our favorite fonts!
We have pre-selected 72 of our favorite fonts for use in customizing our shoes and apparel. Think carefully about the content of your text that you are including when selecting your font. Things you should consider:
- Is your text long? If you are trying to add a longer string of text (greater than 10 characters), you should definitely try to choose a narrower font so that your text will be readable. If you select a wide font, our designers may contact you if they can’t make your font fit in the space you want it.
- Are you adding numbers? Many of our customizations are for parents who supporting their children in sports, or maybe adding a graduation year for a graduation gift, or adding an important date to their shoes. In this case, look carefully at the numeric part of the examples shown.
- Are you using all capitals? Some of the more curvy fonts just won’t work well for all caps, however, most of the fonts we have listed are GREAT for titles or names that need to be 100% capitalized.
These are just a few of the things you should be considering. Again, don’t worry if you aren’t sure. Just let us do the work for you and we’ll make it awesome! You can trust us if you just can’t make up your mind, or you can tell us you just want a script font, or a blocky font, a thick font, or a fat font. We’ll amaze you
Are you looking to pick out your own font, but just don’t love any of our pre-selected fonts above, just go over to Google Fonts and skim through their list of fonts. If you find a Google font that you love, just let us know when you order. Warning! Font browsing can be addicting and Google has over 1400 fonts to choose from at the time of posting this. Thankfully, they are somewhat sortable by style and size. You have been warned!
Again, we can’t emphasize enough – our designers are professionals. If you aren’t sure what you want, don’t spend a lot of time trying to figure it out. We will take all your customization requests and using our best design tools and judgement, we will make your custom order simply amazing. If you aren’t sure – just sit back and trust us!
Brian at Garage Door Doctor sent us a logo and we got to work. Our design team made something incredible with very little instruction. Needless to say, he was amazed. Brian is just one of many stunned customers. Here’s part of what he said after seeing his shoes –>
“Those look way awesome better than anticipated you rock!” and “I recieved the shoes and am blown away, even better in person.”

