Cricut Font Examples

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Over the years I have done several videos on Cricut fonts, and I even created a playlist for them on my YouTube channel. Many of the video were made prior to the last Cricut update so the Design Space screen might look slightly different, but the overall idea about the difference between a writing font or cutting font is still the same.

When you first click on the Text button in Cricut Design Space, the word Text will show up on the screen. Just start typing the words that you want for your project. and you will see them fill into the space where the word Text was. From this point forward you will need to click on the text in order to activate it and view the information about that font.

Once you click on the text, you will find that additional row of options shows up on the top panel. Click on the pull down by the word Font, which I have indicated with a pink arrow in the image below.

Clicking on this pull down will open up a list of fonts you can pick from, which you can see in the image below. There will be some tabs that will allow you to look at just Cricut fonts or just your System Fonts. Other tabs include your Bookmarked and Recent font choices. I have circled them in pink so you can more easily find them.

System fonts are any font that you have downloaded and installed onto the device you are using. For the most part, a System Font will be a Single Layer Cutting Font. There are some exceptions, but you can use this as a basic rule of thumb.

When looking at just the Cricut fonts, you can look at the details under the font names to see what type or style of font each one contains. I have circled this information in blue in the image above.

To the right of each font you will see a flag icon. I am pointing to it with the blue arrow in the image above. If you click on this flag icon it will add that font to your Bookmarked fonts. This is a great way to save some of your favorite fonts so you can find them again easily.

The high level explanation for each filter is listed below. Just to note, you can use these filters in different combinations, for example you could filter to see if there are any Writing fonts that are also All Caps fonts.

Some fonts will have multiple font types available. If the font you choose has both a Writing and a Single-Layer for example, after you apply the font to your project make sure to look under Style pull down and pick the style you wanted to use. The Style pull down is located to the right of the Font pull down that we just looked at.

The images below all show examples of projects I have done using a Writing font. You can click on each image to go the the tutorial for that project. The first image shows gift tags that I created, and had the Cricut write the names on them. The second one shows how I used the Cricut pens to write the days of the week on a classroom calendar. The third image shows you how I use the Cricut pens to write the sentiments for the inside of cards that I make.

There are not a lot of Cricut products that I recommend. I am not a fan of their vinyl. But one item I do recommend are their pens, which you can get on Amazon by clicking HERE. If you plan to do projects where you write with Cricut pens, then I feel like this large pen set is a must have!

Now that you know how to write with Cricut pens, you might be asking if you can write with other pens or markers you already have.. The answer is yes, if you have a special pen adaptor. One of my students was looking around at adators, and she found one on Amazon that she loves. You can purchase it HERE.

The words Cutting Font in the dark teal are done with a Single-Layer Cutting font. There is just one color or layer to the design. The words Cutting Font in pink are done with a Multi-Layer Cutting font, but in the image below you might notice that there is only one color or layer visible. Because of this it LOOKS like it is a Single-Layer font.

If I click on the pink text and look at the layers panel to the right of the screen I can see that this font has two layers within it, but the layer with the number 2 in front of it is turned off. I know it is turned off because of the line going through the little eyeball icon that I have circled to the right of the font information for that layer.

If I click on that eyeball icon to turn that second layer on, now you can see in the image below that each letter has a second layer to it. Multi-Layer fonts give you so many more options in your crafting! You can use both layers together to create layers of color in your design, or you can use just one of the layers.

The mulit-layered font that I selected for this example has a perfect offset around each letter. This is a great type of font to use with you want to layer two colors over each other for your font. As of March 2021, Cricut has now added an offset feature. This will allow you to add additional layers to any font. To learn more about offset click HERE.

The images below all show examples of Single-Layer Cutting Fonts. You can click on any of the images to be taken to the tutorial for that specific project. The first one is a can cozy that I personalized using iron on vinyl. I combined a SVG file I had and used the Text feature in Design Space to type up the name in a Single-Layer Cutting Font.

The second image is a cardstock backpack that I created. I cut the word Mulan out of cardstock with a font I downloaded and installed onto my computer. When you install fonts on your computer those will be located under the System Fonts tab in Design Space, which I will show you later on in this article.

The images below all show examples of Multi-Layer Cutting Fonts. You can click on any of the images to be taken to the tutorial for that specific project. The first image is a close up of a scrapbook layout that I created. I wanted the word stronger to stand out, so I used a Multi-Layer Cutting font for just that portion of the scrapbook layout. I like how the font not only has a shadow layer, but there are also little details cut out of the letters to allow the color of the shadow layer to peek through.

The second image is a shaped number card. With this card there were three letters to the Multi-Layer Cutting font, which allowed me to use all three colors you see in this design. The third image is a cake topper that used a Multi-Layer Cutting font that I made for a baby shower decoration.

If the font you picked indicated that it had more than one style included with it, verify that you have the style you wanted to use selected from the Style pull down that is circled in pink in the image above.

Many crafters want to know how to fill in, or color in, those letters. I did that on the image below and then had the Cricut engrave the outline and engrave lines back and forth to fill in the letters. This look can be achieved with a Hatch Fill or using the Offset button, but having the offset go to the inside of the letters.

You can also see that I love helping people. I think we should spend more time having fun crafting than trying to figure out how to use a software program! This is why I break everything I know into easy to follow steps. And because I have written down the steps, added screen shots and videos, you will know that you have the best resources for learning.

I also use a lot of analogies in my tutorials. If I can relate something in the Cricut Design Space software to an every day situation or something most people would encounter in every day life, I feel that helps people to learn. One great example of this is how I compare Cricut Access to Netflix.

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Most fonts that you download are going to be a cutting font. When you look at the font if there is any thickness to it then it is a cutting font. If it is super thin, like the point of a pen then it could be a writing font. Does that help?

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The difference is clear. This is an excerpt from a scrapbook page about Mt. Rushmore. You can clearly see that Fill in Fonts make all the difference. The second one uses CMV Sirius and looks much better.

The designs also work when made large enough to see the details. Take a look at these two fonts from a scarapbook page on Reptile Gardens. These are both CMV Zebra. As you can see they appear completely different but are the same font.

I really like the fonts you have done. Now I want to know how to do it! What program do you use? Do you have instructions or tutorials on how to do this? Thanks for everything you do help all of learn and enjoy the cricut world.

TTF is an acronym that stands for TrueType font. It is a type of font file that Microsoft and Apple jointly created in the 1980s. TrueType fonts are compatible with both Windows and Mac computers. The TTF font file contains the screen and printer information in a single file.

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