In what experts are calling “the final frontier of typographical desperation,” thousands of small business owners and wannabe influencers are making a harrowing pilgrimage to the very edges of Canva’s font library, desperately seeking originality.
With over 40,000 fonts to choose from, the journey is long, perilous, and made significantly worse by the fact that the fonts aren’t even in alphabetical order. Early travelers report feelings of despair around font #27,346, a cursed script known as ‘Whimsy Goblin’ that is somehow both too playful and deeply unsettling.
“I just wanted my Instagram captions to stand out,” said one influencer, moments before being swallowed whole by a serif so sharp it legally qualifies as a weapon in five countries. “I thought I had something special with ‘Moonbeam Funk’—turns out it’s been used by at least 600 yoga teachers and one artisanal mayonnaise brand.”
The Great Font Migration
The movement began when branding consultants started charging $3,000 to select “just the right font” for a business, only to recommend Open Sans. Fueled by sheer spite, small business owners took matters into their own hands, scrolling endlessly through Canva’s font list in search of a typeface never before used on a motivational quote about coffee and Mondays.
However, the journey is not without casualties. Several entrepreneurs have reportedly been lost in the depths of the ‘Handwritten’ section, their last known messages reading, “It’s all just Comic Sans in disguise” and “Why are there 17 versions of ‘Messy Girl’?”
The Theoretical Font Limit
Meanwhile, a ‘heroic’ Reddit user has discovered the upper limit of fonts one can use in a single Canva project before the software collapses under its own weight, much like a designer forced to create a wedding invitation featuring both Papyrus and Lobster.
According to their findings, Canva crashes somewhere around 101 different fonts per project. Shockingly, the universe did not implode upon reaching this limit, as was feared by typographers and physicists alike. Though, concerns were still raised for the safety of the children expected to read the end result.
Thank you for the kind words of support! After posting I decided to take a quick nap to clear my head, which did wonders. I ended up signing into Canva from my browser to see if I could buy myself a few minutes to dump a couple of fonts. I was able to remove 4 of them from my project, which let my project be auto saved once again!
A Reddit user
Scientists are now using this data to model what would happen if Comic Sans were made the default font of the internet. Early predictions suggest a catastrophic collapse of society, followed by an unexpected but total global peace.
What’s Next?
As Canva users continue their treacherous journey, experts predict a new trend: font minimalism. By 2026, businesses will likely revolt against the font apocalypse, embracing a single universal typeface known only as Boldly Generic Sans. Until then, the search for originality rages on, one illegible cursive script at a time.
God speed everyone and stay safe out there. May the fonts be with you!

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