The font used by Instagram for its main website is Proxima Nova for all large and small texts in conjunction with Neue Helvetica. All texts in Instagram’s official website are covered with these two font styles.

Here’s how you can add a custom font to your Instagram username:

1. Choose a text generator tool.
2. Enter your text and pick a font.
3. Hit the copy button.
4. Open the Instagram app and head over to “Edit Profile.”
5. Paste the text into the “Username” tab.

If you want to access the new fonts, you’ll be able to do so pretty easily: Make sure your Instagram app has the latest update. Open the app, swipe over to your Instagram Story, and click on “create” at the bottom of your screen. If you have access to the new fonts, you’ll see ten different text options.

Most typefaces can be classified into one of four basic groups: those with serifs, those without serifs, scripts and decorative styles.

As others have mentioned, the standard font varies, but is usually a serif font such as Times New Roman, although sans serif fonts such as Arial and Helvetica seem to be gaining traction as well.

Serif fonts are the most common font type. Serif fonts are defined by the tiny embellishment at the end of each letter. Serif fonts are most commonly used in professional publications, such as newspapers, journals, magazines and books. Common serif fonts are Times New Roman, Bookman Old Style, Garamond and Courier.

With that in mind, here are the 27 best clean fonts currently trending in 2021.

• Dense.
• Chelsea.
• Lato.
• Ubuntu.
• Proxima Nova.
• FF DIN.
• Raleway.
• Gilroy. Beautiful and versatile, Gilroy’s scalability makes it an excellent choice for logo design, regular text, posters, and more.

Some of the best fonts —

• Didot.
• Bodoni.
• Garamond.
• Futura.
• Helvetica.
• Mrs Eaves.
• Baskerville.
• Akzidenz-Grotesk.

Legibility. And here is the best reason for why Helvetica could be said to be bad, which is that it’s very low in legibility. Legibility is the ease at which letters can be differentiated from each other. In the case of Helvetica, some characters are quite hard to tell apart.

Check out our roundups of the best free fonts and the top professional fonts for designers.

1. Design a brief.
2. Make fundamental choices.
3. Start from scratch.
4. Use your hands.
5. Start with ‘control characters’
6. Move to your computer.
7. Choose your software.
8. Draw some letters.