New user questions about text tools in forms/elsewhere

I'm pretty far along in creating an interactive service order form in Acrobat, but I wonder if I'm using the proper tools and as they were intended.

There's no mistaking what the form field tool does, and no problem there. But in creating text labels above or adjacent to the fields, i.e. First Name, Last Name, etc; the text box tool seems the obvious choice, doing what it does, but most references to it in the how-to guide indicate that the tool is really for commenting and marking-up documents. Then, there's the Typewriter tool, which seems intended for my purpose, but it's limited to a single font. Then, when creating a new pdf, Acrobat clearly prefers to start with an existing document. I took that cue when I began and created much of my form in PS, but not all of the text came into Acrobat editable. So rather than researching why, I returned to scratch in Acrobat since the form only consists of a few blocks of color, a few text labels, and the fillable fields.

Knowing that there are usually a number of ways to achieve one result in Adobe software, which work flow is preferred by the pros?

And I promise to find a tutorial just as soon as I finish this project:-)

Thanks.