When choosing a font to write with, I recommend choosing a Cricut font that specifically has a writing style. Using the Cricut to write is a fun way to add all sorts of text and embellishments to your projects. As you probably know, the Cricut can do much more than cut. Keep this in mind when choosing one of your system fonts to cut on the Cricut! Writing Styles The best fonts for cutting on the Cricut have smooth edges and have a relatively even weight (the thickness of the lines in each character). The Cricut Explore is an amazing machine, but that’s impossible to cut out well. Look at all those little angles and cutouts! Every time, the Cricut has to adjust the blade and mat direction. And there’s a good chance it will destroy your material.
Your system fonts, however, might not be as simple. Cricut fonts are designed to be mathematically simple, so they cut easily. The Cricut cuts mathematically simple files better than it does mathematically complicated files. Using a system font that you have on your computer is no different than using a Cricut font as above, though there is one big pitfall I want to mention here. You can then change the color the same way you would any other object in the Cricut Design Space. Your word will be welded together into one cut file! Perfect. Now we definitely don’t want to cut all these letters separately, so it’s time to weld!Drag to select your entire text, and then hit Weld in the lower right-hand corner. I’ll just nudge it over a bit so it’s not so cozy with my text. Now you can see that each letter is separate so I can move the exclamation point on its own. I don’t, however, love how the exclamation point is oddly stuck to the end of “hello.” You can use the Advanced drop-down menu to ungroup to letters. You can play around with these numbers depending on the font you are using. So I decreased the letter spacing to -.5. I would love the letters to overlap so I can cut them as a single cut. The Cricut Design Space defaults to letter spacing of 1.2, but I want each letter closer together. Let’s choose a Cricut font and take a look at it more carefully. system fonts.Ĭricut Fonts are designed to be cut on a Cricut, so they are always a great choice for your projects (the exception to this rule is Cricut fonts specifically designed as a writing style-I’ll get to that in a moment). Cricut fonts will be denoted with a green “a.” There may be a small fee depending on your Cricut Access subscription. When you change your font using the drop-down menu, you can choose between Cricut fonts and your own system fonts.
You can also select an actual font size in the same menu. You can easily change the size of your text by using the drag and drop arrow in the corner of your text box, or by using the size panel at the top of your workspace. I’m going to use the simple word “hello!” since it’s my first post here and I’m happy to be saying hello to all of you! Changing the Size Just click on the Text tool in the left menu and start typing. Using the Type ToolĬreating text in the Cricut Design Space is easy.
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Needless to say, I’m thrilled to be talking fonts here on the Cricut blog! Today I’m going to take one simple word and show you how to manipulate the font in the Cricut Design Space.
I have hundreds (upon hundreds) of fonts and I can never say no when I see another font bundle with swirly swashes, adorable ampersands, and lovely ligatures (only crazy font ladies love ligatures!). Some people are crazy cat ladies, but I am definitely a crazy font lady. Hey, crafty friends! I’m Cori from Hey Let’s Make Stuff and I’m here to share tips and tricks for working with fonts in Cricut Design Space.
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