Canva, properly

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The Brand Kit, set once

Lesson 2 of 8 in Canva, properly.

Checked against the makers' documentation on 9 October 2026.

How to Set Up Your Canva Brand Kit (2026 Step-by-Step Tutorial) · Jacqui Naunton // White Deer
Lesson

A Brand Kit is where Canva keeps the parts of a brand that nobody should choose twice. Open Brand from the homepage side panel and each kit has its own sections for logos, colours and fonts, plus colour themes, custom brand assets, a Guidelines page that opens as a doc, and a fixed section for Brand Templates. The founders' lesson on a starter kit covers the decisions that come before this one, such as naming the colours and checking their contrast. This lesson puts those decisions into Canva so that they hold. Do it once, properly, before the next post.

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  1. Question 1, locked

    You try to upload a variable font to your paid Brand Kit and it will not work. What should you do?

    • Convert it to a WOFF2 file and try again
    • Upload the static files, one for each weight, with bold and italic separate
    • Switch on Brand Controls so the font is allowed
    • Ask Canva AI to recreate the font from a sample
  2. Question 2, locked

    On Canva Free the kit cannot hold fonts. What does the lesson suggest instead?

    • Choose the font from memory each time
    • Type the font names into the colour palette
    • A locked Brand page design whose text styles you copy onto new text
    • Ask Magic Write which font to use for each post
  3. Question 3, locked

    Why does the lesson say to check every colour in the kit before anyone generates designs from it?

    • Canva AI reads the kit, so a stray colour comes back in generated designs
    • Brand Controls delete any colour that has not been checked
    • Free plans charge extra for each colour the AI uses
    • Canva AI ignores the kit until every colour is checked

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