# A design app in other languages: Gradiently speaks 12

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Gradiently’s screens, emails and AI all work in twelve languages, and the language you design in doesn’t have to be the language you read the app in. Here is how to set both.

## The short version

- Gradiently speaks 12 languages: English, French, Spanish, German, Italian, European and Brazilian Portuguese, Dutch, Swedish, Danish, Norwegian and Finnish.
- The app language changes every screen and every email Gradiently sends you.
- The Designer’s language is a separate setting that decides which language the AI writes your designs in.
- Both are set in Settings › Language and region, alongside country, time zone and print units.
- Changing the app language never translates designs you have already made.

If you want a **design app in other languages**, Gradiently runs in twelve: English, French, Spanish, German, Italian, European and Brazilian Portuguese, Dutch, Swedish, Danish, Norwegian and Finnish. You set two things separately in **Settings › Language and region**: the app language, for every screen and every email, and the Designer’s language, for the words the AI writes on your designs. So a team in Brussels can read the app in Dutch and publish posts in French.

## The 12 languages Gradiently speaks

| Language | Named in itself |
| --- | --- |
| English | English |
| French | Français |
| Spanish | Español |
| German | Deutsch |
| Italian | Italiano |
| European Portuguese | Português (Portugal) |
| Brazilian Portuguese | Português (Brasil) |
| Dutch | Nederlands |
| Swedish | Svenska |
| Danish | Dansk |
| Norwegian | Norsk |
| Finnish | Suomi |

The language picker lists each language in its own name, and you can search it in either form.

The app is translated in full sentences rather than stitched together from fragments, and dates, numbers and plurals follow each language’s own rules. European and Brazilian Portuguese are written separately, because readers in Lisbon and São Paulo notice the difference. Product names stay as they are: a Mark is a Mark and the Designer is the Designer in every language, while words like the Market are translated.

## App language and the Designer’s language

The two settings answer different questions. One is about you as a reader; the other is about your audience.

### App language

- Every screen, menu and message in the app
- Every email Gradiently sends you
- Personal to you, so teammates can each choose their own
- Changes the interface, never your designs

### Designer’s language

- The language the AI writes your designs in
- Used unless you ask for another in a request
- Set it to your customers’ language, not yours
- Words you type yourself stay exactly as typed

You can override the Designer’s language for a single design by saying so, for example “write this one in Swedish”. [The Designer guide](https://gradiently.design/guide/designer-ai-guide) covers how it writes, and the [brand kit’s voice](https://gradiently.design/guide/brand-kit-setup) carries across languages, so a calm brand stays calm in Danish too.

## How to change the language in Gradiently

1. **Open Settings › Language and region** It sits in the You group of Settings, with country, time zone and print units.
2. **Choose the app language** Search by the language’s own name or its English one. The app switches in place, and your unsaved work stays where it was.
3. **Choose the Designer’s language** Pick the language your customers read. It can be the same as the app language or different.
4. **Check your time zone and units** Time zone decides dates and when emails arrive. Units decide whether custom print sizes open in pixels, inches, centimetres or millimetres; screens always use pixels.

Visitors who are not signed in get a sensible default. Gradiently remembers a choice made on that browser, and otherwise follows the browser’s own language list when it prefers one of the twelve. A browser set to English is never switched automatically; if it also lists one of the other languages, a small card asks, in that language, whether to switch, and remembers if you say no.

## Designing for more than one language

Changing the app language never translates a design you have made. For a bilingual audience, make the design once, copy it, and change the words, or ask the Designer for the second version in the other language. Keep each language on its own design rather than squeezing both onto one page.

A portrait post in French announcing a new autumn menu at Café Lumière

The French version for a café in Brussels.

The same post in Dutch announcing a new autumn menu

The Dutch version, same Mark and layout, with the words written for Dutch readers.

Some languages run longer than English. German and Finnish build long compound words, and French and Spanish sentences often need more room. Leave space in the layout, keep headlines short in every language, and check each version at its real size. [Font size for social media](https://gradiently.design/guide/font-size-for-social-media) gives sizes that stay readable on a phone, and [multilingual type](https://gradiently.design/guide/arabic-and-multilingual-type) covers choosing fonts with the right characters.

- **Check special letters in your fonts.** Å, Ø, Æ, Ä, Ö, Ç, Ñ and ã all need to be in the heading and body fonts you upload to the brand kit.
- **Write dates the local way.** “6 oktober” and “6 octobre” read naturally; “10/6” confuses half of Europe.
- **Let words read on the Mark.** Auto ink picks light or dark type per line, so longer translations stay readable without a box behind them. [Auto ink](https://gradiently.design/guide/auto-ink-legibility) explains how.
- **Make every size from each language.** Resize the French post to a story and an X post, then do the same for the Dutch, so neither audience gets a cropped version.

## Who the languages help most

| Situation | App language | Designer’s language |
| --- | --- | --- |
| A bakery in Lyon | French | French |
| A Finnish founder selling to Sweden | Finnish | Swedish |
| An agency in Amsterdam with a Brazilian client | Dutch | Brazilian Portuguese |
| A team in Oslo posting in English | Norwegian | English |

Teammates in one workspace can each read the app in their own language while designing for the same audience.

Emails follow the same rule as the app. Invitations, comment notifications and receipts arrive in each person’s own app language, so a colleague in Helsinki and a colleague in Lisbon can be invited to the same workspace and each read their invitation in their own language. [Working with a team](https://gradiently.design/guide/teams-and-workspaces) covers workspaces.

## FAQ

### What languages is Gradiently available in?

English, French, Spanish, German, Italian, European Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese, Dutch, Swedish, Danish, Norwegian and Finnish.

### How do I change the language in Gradiently?

Open Settings › Language and region and choose an app language. The app switches in place without losing unsaved work.

### Can the AI write my designs in a different language from the app?

Yes. The Designer’s language is a separate setting, and you can also ask for another language in any single request.

### Does changing the language translate my existing designs?

No. Your designs keep the words you gave them. Make a copy and change the words, or ask the Designer for a version in another language.

### Are Gradiently emails translated too?

Yes. Emails arrive in your app language, so each person on a team reads them in the language they chose.