What Is the Soap Font for DaVinci Resolve?

Summary

The Soap font in DaVinci Resolve is a rustic sans serif display typeface you install at the operating system level, after which it appears in the Font dropdown of both the basic Text title and the Fusion-based Text+ title. Text+ gives you the tracking and shading control Soap needs for brand and product film titles. The Font Soap is $22.50, regularly $45.00.

What Is the Soap Font?

The Font Soap — Rustic Display Type is a sans serif display typeface built for crafted brands. It takes its cues from Le Labo-style apothecary labels and hand-stamped packaging, with structural influence from the Akira typeface underneath the softness. The house description says it plainly: clean enough to be modern, imperfect enough to feel human.

Here is what you get:

• Two styles — Soap Regular and Soap Expanded.
• Commercial use license — use it on client work, packaging, and paid product films.
• Instant download — the files land in your inbox and install at the operating system level.
• Price — $22.50, regularly $45.00.

Soap is also included in MoonBear's Complete Font Bundle, and it is one of the six display fonts bundled with Replica 3 Title Presets — so if you already own either of those, check before you buy it standalone.

How Soap Works in DaVinci Resolve

Resolve reads system fonts. Nothing is installed into Resolve itself, and Soap works the same in the free version and Studio.

Install it on macOS with Font Book

1. Download the Soap files and unzip the archive somewhere permanent — not your Downloads folder, which you will eventually clear out.
2. Double-click a font file. Font Book opens a preview window.
3. Click Install Font. Repeat for the second style so both Soap Regular and Soap Expanded are available.
4. To install both at once, open Font Book and drag the files into the sidebar. Choose User to install for your account only, or Computer to install for everyone on the machine.
5. Confirm the install by searching Soap in Font Book. User fonts live in ~/Library/Fonts; all-user fonts live in /Library/Fonts.

Install it on Windows

1. Unzip the download.
2. Select both font files, right-click, and choose Install — or Install for all users if other accounts on the machine need it.
3. Alternatively, open Settings > Personalization > Fonts and drag the files into the drop zone.
4. Installed fonts land in C:\Windows\Fonts.

Find it in Resolve

1. Quit Resolve completely and reopen it. Resolve caches its font list at launch and is stricter about this than most NLEs.
2. Go to the Edit page and open the Effects panel, then Toolbox > Titles.
3. Drag Text+ onto a video track above your footage.
4. Select the clip and open the Inspector. On the Text tab, type your title into the Styled Text box.
5. Under Font, open the Font Family dropdown and choose Soap, then pick the style in the Font Style dropdown beside it.
6. Set Size, then Tracking just below it. Tracking is the control that makes this font work — open it up for all-caps display titles.

Text+ vs Basic Text

Resolve gives you two title tools and they are not interchangeable.

For Soap, use Text+ almost every time. The basic Text title does not give you enough tracking control to hit the apothecary spacing the font is built around, and its shading options are too blunt for a clean label look.

Text+ controls worth knowing

• Layout tab — switch Type from Point to Frame when you want text to wrap inside a set width, or to Circle for a lid-style curved title on a product film.
• Shading tab — Element 1 is the fill. Select Element 2, tick Enabled, and set its appearance to Outline or Shadow if the footage underneath demands separation. Keep it subtle; Soap does not need a border.
• Transform tab — use this rather than the Edit page's Transform controls when you want the move baked into the title itself.
• No faux bold — Soap ships Soap Regular and Soap Expanded and no bold weight. Choose Expanded from the Font Style dropdown for presence rather than relying on any synthesised bold.

Reusing a Soap Title Across a Project

1. Copy and Paste Attributes — style one Text+ clip, copy it, then select your other title clips, right-click and choose Paste Attributes to push the styling across. Fastest option inside one timeline.
2. Power Bin — in the Media Pool, open the options menu and turn on Show Power Bins. Drag your finished Soap title into a Power Bin and it is available in every project in that database.
3. Fusion macro — for a title you want in the Effects panel permanently, open the Fusion page with the title selected, right-click the Text+ node and choose Macro > Create Macro. Tick the inputs you want exposed, save it into Resolve's Fusion Templates/Edit/Titles folder, and restart Resolve. It then appears in Effects > Titles like any built-in title.

Whichever route you pick, the font itself has to be installed on any machine that opens the project. Resolve will substitute a default face if Soap is missing, and it does not always warn loudly — check your titles after moving a project between suites.

Soap on Brand and Product Grades

• Skincare films — Soap Expanded for the product name over a clean macro shot, Soap Regular for the actives list. Keep titles inside the action safe guides, which you can toggle in the viewer options.
• Candle and home fragrance — a single scent name in Expanded, centred, held on a static frame while the wick burns in.
• Coffee roastery films — stacked origin, process and altitude lines in Regular with manual line spacing, entering as one block.
• Lookbooks — chapter cards in Expanded between sequences, garment details in Regular as lower thirds.
• End plates — mark on top, URL in Regular with heavy tracking beneath it.

Keep the title colour flat and sample it from the footage rather than using pure white. On a graded skincare film, a warm off-white sits into the frame where 100 IRE white sits on top of it.

Conclusion

In Resolve, Soap is a system font that shows up in Text+ and basic Text alike — use Text+ for anything a client will see, get your tracking wide, and save the result to a Power Bin or a Fusion macro so you are not rebuilding it every job. Get The Font Soap for $22.50, down from $45.00, or take everything in the Complete Font Bundle.

FAQ

Q: How do I install the Soap font for DaVinci Resolve?
A: Install it in the operating system. macOS: double-click the file and click Install Font in Font Book. Windows: right-click and choose Install. Then quit and relaunch Resolve.

Q: Why does Soap not show in Resolve's font list?
A: Resolve builds its font list at launch. A full quit and relaunch is required after installing — closing the project is not enough.

Q: Should I use Text or Text+ with Soap?
A: Text+. It gives you proper tracking, layout modes and shading elements. Basic Text is fine only for quick temp slates.

Q: Does Soap work in the free version of Resolve?
A: Yes. Font handling is the same in the free version and Studio, since the font is read from the operating system.

Q: How do I reuse a Soap title across projects?
A: Save it to a Power Bin, or create a Fusion macro from the Text+ node and place it in Resolve's Fusion Titles templates folder.

Q: How much does Soap cost?
A: $22.50, regularly $45.00, for Soap Regular and Soap Expanded with a commercial use license and instant download.