Here are 5 minimalist luxury serif fonts from independent foundries: clean and easy to use across headlines and everyday brand materials, without losing that elegant, high end feel.

1. The Aesthetic Essential

Designed by Megi Satyo Widodo, The Aesthetic Essential is a clean, feminine modern serif built for “a touch of class and simplicity.” The free version keeps a lean character set, which naturally keeps your designs simple and consistent.

Best for: logo wordmarks, minimalist branding, everyday headlines.

License: free for personal use, desktop commercial license from $18 at Pixel Surplus.

2. NT Fabulous

Designed by Artem Nevsky, NT Fabulous is a slender, understated serif built for everyday use across a brand, not just headlines. It stays legible and calm even at smaller sizes, which makes it one of the more versatile options here.

Best for: body text, subheadings, everyday brand materials.

License: free for personal use, desktop commercial license from $16 at Pixel Surplus.

3. GC Milan Headline

GC Milan Headline, from the studio Glyphonic, is a refined modern-classic serif with balanced proportions and graceful serif details. It keeps a sophisticated, editorial feel without leaning on heavy decoration.

Best for: fashion and beauty brands, editorial headlines, premium packaging.

License: free for personal use, desktop commercial license from $32 at Pixel Surplus.

4. Vermolin

Vermolin, by True Type Lab, is a classic, clean serif with sharp contrast and calligraphic influences across several weights, from thin to bold, so you can pick exactly how much presence you want.

Best for: editorial layouts, headlines, brand typography systems.

License: free demo version for personal use, full commercial family from around $24 at True Type Lab.

5. Vilaka

Vilaka, by the foundry Nestype, is a tall, thin serif with a slightly stylised feel and a few well placed ligatures, staying legible from small print all the way up to a large headline.

Best for: editorial projects, logo design, product packaging.

License: free demo version for personal use, full commercial family from $13 at Creative Market.

A quick note on licensing

Unlike Google Fonts, independent fonts like these usually come with a split license: free while you are testing them out or using them on a personal project, and a paid commercial license once the font goes into anything you sell or use for a client, such as a logo, a paid Divi theme or a Canva template you distribute. The license fee is usually a small one time payment rather than a subscription, and it goes directly to the designer who made the font, which is worth supporting when you love their work.

Pairing a luxury serif with your body text

A luxury serif needs a quiet partner. These are the pairings I use in my own Divi 5 themes:

• Migra + NTR in Hattie: dramatic headings with a light, simple body font.
• Butler + Lato in Kathy: refined and warm, easy to read on any screen.
• Instrument Serif + Lato in Halle Pro: elegant and airy, perfect for wedding photographers.

The rule is the same with all of them: the serif gets the big headings, and a neutral sans serif takes care of everything else.

If you would rather skip the licensing question altogether, my Divi WordPress themes and Canva templates already come with elegant fonts built in, fully licensed for you to use in your own business right away.

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1. It’s Dramatically Faster

 
Divi 5 was rebuilt to load only what it needs, when it needs it. Its JavaScript is modularized instead of loading as one heavy bundle, and it generates critical CSS automatically so the visible part of your page renders almost instantly. Elegant Themes reports the builder itself runs 2 to 4 times faster than Divi 4, and sites built with it can hit perfect 100 PageSpeed scores on both desktop and mobile — which matters for both user experience and search rankings.
 

2. A Builder Interface That Finally Feels Modern

 
The visual builder has a cleaner, more customizable workspace: adjustable panels, light and dark mode, a proper layers panel, and right-click context menus that make selecting the exact element you want much easier. There’s also a new Command Center — a keyboard-driven command palette that lets you jump to any setting or action without hunting through menus.
 

 

3. Real Design Control with Presets and Global Styles

 
This is the one working designers will appreciate most. Divi 5 introduces reusable style presets and global variables for colors, typography, spacing, and images, so updating your brand colors or fonts site-wide takes one edit instead of fifty. It also adds native Flexbox and CSS Grid support, which means proper professional layouts without the workarounds Divi 4 sometimes required.

 

4. The New Loop Builder

 
If you’ve ever wanted to display a filtered, styled grid of blog posts, products, or portfolio items without touching code, the Loop Builder is built for exactly that. You design how one item looks, and Divi repeats that design across your dynamic content automatically — no plugins or custom queries required.
 

 

5. Built to Last (with AI Built In)

 
Divi 5 stores content in a block-based format compatible with core WordPress standards, which means better long-term compatibility with the rest of the WordPress ecosystem, including Gutenberg. Elegant Themes also folded a decade of technical debt into this rebuild, so the foundation is meant to support the next several years of updates, not just this one. On top of that, Divi AI can now generate layouts, text, images, and even custom CSS from a plain-language description, right inside the builder.
 

 

Should You Upgrade?

 
If you’re starting a new site, there’s little reason not to build it in Divi 5 from day one. If you already have a site running on Divi 4, the good news is Divi 5 maintains backward compatibility with your existing modules, so you’re not forced into a risky overnight migration — you can move at your own pace. Every theme in my shop is built with Divi, so if you’re curious how it looks in a real, finished design rather than a blank builder screen, take a look at my Divi child themes for creative businesses.
 
Don’t have Divi yet? You can grab it here: Get Divi 5 from Elegant Themes.

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1. Start With a Fast, Reliable Host

Your theme is only as fast as the server it runs on. Even the most beautifully designed theme will feel slow and hurt your SEO if it’s sitting on a weak hosting plan. Page speed affects everything from your Google ranking to how long visitors stick around before clicking away. I’ve tested a lot of hosts over the years, and SiteGround continues to be my top recommendation for WordPress sites,  great speed, solid uptime, and support that actually knows WordPress inside and out.

2. Make Sure It’s Mobile-Friendly and SEO-Ready

More than half of your visitors will land on your site from their phone, and Google ranks the mobile experience first when deciding where your site shows up in search results. Choose a theme that’s genuinely responsive, not just “mobile compatible” on paper and built with clean, lightweight code that won’t slow down your Core Web Vitals. A theme stuffed with unnecessary scripts and bloated files can quietly tank your rankings no matter how good your content is.

3. Look for a Flexible Page Builder (Like Divi)

You shouldn’t need to touch a line of code to update your own website. That’s why I build all my themes on Divi.  It lets you customize fonts, colors, layouts, and sections yourself, whenever inspiration (or a rebrand) strikes. A good page builder also means you’re not locked into one look forever; as your business grows and your brand evolves, your site can evolve with it instead of feeling stuck in time. If you don’t have Divi yet, you can grab it here: Get Divi from Elegant Themes.

4. Pick a Design That Actually Matches Your Brand

A generic, one size fits all theme will always feel generic. If you’re a creative business owner, look for a theme designed with your kind of brand in mind,  soft, feminine, editorial rather than trying to force a corporate template into your aesthetic. That’s exactly why I design each of my Divi WordPress themes around a specific type of creative business, from photographers to interior designers to online course creators, so the layout, fonts, and spacing already feel like “you” from the moment you install it.

5. Preview the Demo Before You Commit

A theme can look great in a thumbnail preview and still feel wrong once it’s actually on your screen. Always click through the full demo, check how the homepage flows, how the blog and shop pages look, and whether the fonts and colors hold up on both desktop and mobile. Most theme shops, including mine, offer a live demo you can click around before you buy, so use it.

6. Check for Support and Regular Updates

WordPress, Divi, and plugins all update constantly, so your theme needs to keep up. Before you buy, check how recently the theme was updated and whether real support is included, not just a documentation page you’re left to figure out alone. Every theme in my shop comes with updates and direct support from me, so you’re never stuck troubleshooting a broken layout by yourself.

Choosing a theme isn’t just a design decision, it’s a business decision. Get the fundamentals right (hosting, responsiveness, flexibility, brand fit, a proper demo preview, and support) and everything else on your site gets easier, from SEO to conversions to how confident you feel sending people to your homepage.

Ready to see themes built specifically for creative business owners? Browse the collection here.

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This feature is basic to provide with information or promote products or services to your ’email subscribers’.

If you build a mailing list, you will have the opportunity to send them your news and offers directly to their email. In my opinion, one of the best platforms to collect emails and send marketing campaigns is Convertkit.

For this, it´s necessary to know what´s the API key to connect your Converkit account with your Divi Builder.

Step 1

In your Converkit account, click your profile and select “Profile”.

Step 2

After logging in your Converkit account and select “Settings“.

Step 3

Go to Advanced Tab and there and find your API Key and your API  Secret. Click the link to reveal your API Secret.

Step 4

Go to your site and add an “Email Optin” module to your Divi layout and select your server Provider: Converkit

Step 5

Enter your Converkit Account Name and the API key you have created above.

Step 6

Select a Convertkit list from the dropdown menu on the list section. Save changes.

Step 7 (optional)

Configuring Spam Protection Account Enabling it will offer you a much higher level of security. First of all, you will need to create a Google reCaptcha v3 profile for your website. To do it, go to https://www.google.com/recaptcha/admin/create and fill in the details like you can see on this screenshot:

When you fill it in, click on  “Submit” button and you´ll get a  reCaptcha Site Key and Secret Key.

Go to Emil Optin Settings, choose the option “Spam Protection”. Click to ADD a new reCAPTCHA v3 Account and copy & paste your Google reCaptcha site key & secret key here.

Then click Submit.

Step 8

By default, the Email Optin module comes with 3 fields ( First Name, Last Name and Email ). You can remove the unnecessary fields checking Fields.

And finally, customize it!

Do you need more info about Divi Email Optin Module ? How to add, configure and customize the Divi email optin module: https://www.elegantthemes.com/documentation/divi/newsletter

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Quiz Makers is a perfect tool for coaches, business marketers and managers who need generating leads, segment the audience, and drive traffic to their websites.

TryInteract is an online tool that can be used to create quizzes for free and to collect emails with the paid subscription service.

The free plan offers unlimited quizzes and unlimited quiz takers. This basic free service is gorgeous if a coach or business owner does not need to collect the email addresses of the quiz takers.

The paid subscription plans function to collect email addresses sending the results via email so that you can grow your email list.

1. Create an account

Go to TryInteract and create a new account.

2. Choose a template

On your quiz dashboard, hit Create New Quiz to get started.

Choose your favorite quiz templates to find one according to your goal.

What if you don’t want to use a quiz template? You can always hit Start From Scratch and create your own quiz.

For this tutorial, I’ll use, “What kind of blog will lead to your next big breakthrough?”

3. Styling your quiz

Whether you’re using a quiz template or starting from scratch, you’ll see a “quiz design” menu at the top of your page.

Here, you can change your quiz colors, font, and cover image.

Choose a color scheme similar to your brand colors.

Next is the font. There’s a ton of fonts to choose from. Pick a readable font, so your quiz is easy to understand.

4. Build the cover page

Your quiz cover page is the first thing quiz-takers will see. Make it stand out.

First, type in the title of your quiz. Then choose a relatable image with Edit Cover Image. You can either upload a photo or choose from our gallery.

The quiz description doesn’t need to be long, but it does need to be convincing.

Tell your readers what your quiz is about and why it’s worth taking. You can also add a timestamp like “Take this four-minute quiz!” so users know it won’t take up too much of their time.

5. Design your questions

Now build your questions. Your quiz questions should be relatable, easy to understand, and creative.

You can add images to your questions can make them feel unique.

6. Customize your results pages

Your results pages lead users to your business and services, so give as much value as possible. I’ll go over each section of a typical quiz results page.

At the top, state the results and add a relatable image.

Next, describe your user’s strengths. Tell them everything that’s awesome about their result and why they’ve got it going on.

You can have 2-3 pages, depending on how deep you want to go in customizing your content for your audience!

7. Correlate your questions and results

There’s one more thing to do before you log off: correlate your questions to each result so users get an accurate answer.

On your questions page, click Edit Result Correlations. 

By clicking on the blue button “edit result correlations” , you can customize each question and make sure that your audience gets the results they need.

You can customize each and every question and answer and correlate it to the correct result to make sure your quiz is giving your audience the most accurate results.

One answer can have multiple result correlations, it’s super flexible.

8. Insert your Quiz in your page

To connect Interact with your page, sidebar, post,…you have to do is paste an HTML code.

You can find this code on your quiz dashboard.

To get started, hit Share & Embed.

If you scroll down, you’ll see some embed settings.

• Auto resize embed to fit quiz content: With Javascript embed, you can resize your quiz to work within your content.
• Use custom embed size: Toggle this button to resize your quiz to something other than 800px by 800px.
• Open quiz in a new tab on mobile devices: Landing pages and mobile devices can get messy. Use this setting to separate your quiz from the landing page.
• Disable the quiz cover page: Your landing page will tell users all about your quiz, so the cover page isn’t always necessary. You can disable it here.

Create a page, or open one you already created, and paste the code inside a code module.

And voila! You have your Quiz.

9. Promote your quiz on Social Media

Now that you’ve created your quiz, it’s time to get people to take it. And the only way to do that is to get it seen by your audience.

On your Interact dashboard, go to your fitness quiz and click Share & Embed.

Under Share Link, you’ll notice five different social media channels at the bottom.

10. Grow your email list with an email opt-in (Pay Subscription)

Instead of showing them the results after quiz completions and asking them to join your email list, you can “gate” the results by asking them to fill out a form with their email address.

Here’s how to do it.

Go back to the left panel in your Try Interact account, and toggle the ‘Lead Generation’ button to the ‘On’ position:

This form takes you through the integration process. It supports all major email marketing and marketing automation tools.

The breadcrumb menu at the top shows you where you are in the integration process:

The opt-in form at the bottom of the screen is what turns your quiz into a lead generation tool: when you activate this function, the quiz-taker has to enter a valid email if they want to see the quiz results:

As you can see with TryInteract, it’s so simple to create and integrate a quiz on your website.

Want a head start? Every Lovely Confetti theme is built with Divi 5 and ready to customize. Browse our feminine Divi WordPress themes for coaches, photographers, therapists and creative businesses.

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Step 1: Look for your perfect Video Background

You can upload your own video or use a Free Stock Video Website like Pexels and look for a video that covers your business needs. In Pexels, all videos are free for personal and commercial use. You can look for your videos by topic and choose position and size.

Step 2: Upload Your Background Video

• Once You´ve download your lovely video Open the Divi Section Options.
• Upload Your Background Video, This is where we can upload our video. (Note that it is recommended that you upload the video in MP4 format to ensure maximum browser compatibility.)
• Save Your Background Video Choice.
• Add Some Content to that section, For example I´ve added a Call To Action.

Step 3: Customize adding a lovely overlay

By default it’s not possible to add overlay effect to a section or any other Divi modules that contain a video background. You´ll find a code like this:

content:"";
display: block;
position: absolute;
top: 0;
left: 0;
width: 100%;
height: 100%;
background-color: rgba(0,0,0,0.6);
z-index: 9;

Next, add the following code under the Section >  Advanced tab  > Custom CSS >  Before Element field:

• View your Divi Background Video in Action.

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