How to move product titles on photos and use custom fonts in Dawn theme?

Topic summary

Goal: Customize the Dawn theme so product titles appear centered on top of product photos, and use branded (custom) fonts instead of the default options.

Status on fonts:

  • One responder indicated you can use your own font and shared an image of the interface (attachment is relevant).
  • Initial suggestion: use the theme’s “change” option to upload a font so it appears site-wide.
  • Issue: The original poster does not see any upload button—only a list of existing fonts.
  • Alternative offered: upload font files to Shopify’s server and then import them via CSS (the site’s styling code) to apply across the store. No step-by-step code or file paths were provided.

Status on title overlay:

  • No concrete instructions or code were given for moving product titles onto the center of product images in Dawn.

Outcome: No definitive solution yet. The thread remains open with unanswered details, especially for the title overlay implementation and precise font upload/import steps.

Summarized with AI on February 2. AI used: gpt-5.

Hello,

I am hoping someone here can be of assistance. I have been told what I am looking to do requires coding, however no one can tell me what to do.

I would like to move the text of the product titles from below the photos to on top in the middle of the photos for each product. I have seen many shopify sites that have this design, some of which the tile is greyed out when hovered over it. I would simply like the text in the centre of the photo.

Additionally, if it is possible to use other fonts than what are currently on shopify? I have branded fonts I would prefer to use to keep things uniform. I have seen on other sites that they have been able to use their branded fonts and are quick link tiles as well.

For reference, I am using the Dawn theme.

If anyone can provide instrcuctions on how to do this I would really appreciate it.

Thank you in advance.

You can use your Font!

How am I able to upload my fonts?

You just need to click change to upload your font, and then it will be automatically quoted in your website!

Unfortunately there is not that option on my end… i can simply change to one of the fonts on the list, there is no button to upload.

Is there somewhere else i can go for this?

Then you can upload your fonts to shopify server, and then go to css to import fonts and change all fonts on your website!