Best vs. Worst Fonts for Your Etsy Shop (2026 Edition)

About this video

Dylan Jahraus argues that outdated fonts are a major, under-discussed change impacting Etsy sellers this year, making shops and listings look dated and less clickable — in product fonts, banners, and text overlays. She shows examples to avoid: banner fonts, font duos or pairings that are too similar, all-caps fonts paired with light feathery script, two serif styles with equal letter spacing, text that feels like an afterthought rather than integrated into the design, script layered over another font, the collegiate look, alternating serif-script patterns, and two thin fonts at the same size. She warns against buying big SVG font bundles on Etsy, saying they look outdated by the time they are bundled, and against little arrows pointing to hearts and swirls with hearts. In Canva, she names popular fonts to avoid including Anton (which she says should only be used for a garage sale), the Brittany font, Comic Sans, Shrikhand, Bebas Neue, Bukhari Script, Adlery Pro, Apricots, Buffalo, Caitlyn, Hey Gotcha, curly scripts, and Beth Ellen. Instead, she favors fonts where the typography itself is the design: artisan, uneven and imperfect lettering, unpredictable cutouts, overlapping letters, integrated script-and-retro combinations, half a word in one font and half in another, varied weights and sizes of one font matched to the same width, and intentional letter reversals or inverse color. Examples she praises include Milk Bar, Chunky Fonty, Coax, Melta, Dillan, Orange Squash, Naville, and Bungalow for kids’ nursery and playroom products, plus Radnik. She suggests taking screenshots and asking Google or ChatGPT to find a similar font, and offers a shop review/coaching call for sellers unsure if fonts are holding them back.

Key takeaways

• Outdated fonts in products, banners, and overlays can make listings look dated
• Avoid similar font pairings, feathery scripts, and text treated as an afterthought
• Avoid named Canva fonts like Anton, Bebas Neue, Shrikhand, and Comic Sans
• Choose fonts where the lettering itself is the design, with cutouts and overlap
• Stop buying big SVG font bundles, which she says are already outdated

Episode details: published August 24, 2026 · 9:35 long. Summary written by Self Growth Videos from the episode itself. Business results and any income figures mentioned are Dylan Jahraus’s own claims, shared for education — they are not typical or guaranteed.

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