Cricut fonts

Type your words above, pick the fonts you like from the list, and choose Download SVG under one of them at the top. In Cricut Design Space choose Upload, then Upload Image, and open the file: an SVG goes in as a cut image, with nothing to clean up. Add it to your canvas, size it, and choose Make It.

The SVG comes welded. Where a script’s letters join, the file holds one outline, so the word cuts as one piece and no letter cuts into the next. It is one colour on no background, sized to fit a 12-inch mat.

Design Space lists the fonts installed on your computer, under System in its font menu. Get the font from its page here and unzip the download. On Windows, right-click the font file and choose Install; on a Mac, double-click it and choose Install Font. Then close Design Space and open it again.

Typed in Design Space, a script still cuts letter by letter. Select the text and choose Weld, at the foot of the Layers panel, to make it one shape; where letters do not touch, bring them closer with Letter Space first.

The SVG does, with no font to install: download it, then in Design Space choose Upload and pick it from Files. To type in a font on an iPad or an iPhone, it has to be installed on the device first, and that takes an app that installs fonts: iOS has no installer of its own for a font file.

Bold letters with open counters: they weed fastest and stay put on shirts, mugs and tumblers, even small. A joined script needs welding, which the SVG has done, and its finest strokes want room: cut it larger, or choose a sturdier script, such as Pacifico or Kaushan Script.

Stencils hold the middles of O, A and B to the rest by bridges, so a stencil you paint through stays in one piece.

A font here is drawn as the outline of each letter, so a pen goes round every stroke and draws it double. For lettering in one line, use a writing font: in Design Space, filter the font menu by Writing.

Yes. Every font here is free for commercial use under an open licence: the SIL Open Font License, Apache 2.0 or the Ubuntu Font Licence. Cut it onto shirts, decals, mugs and signs, and sell them: the licence covers the font, not what you make with it. The SIL Open Font License does not let anyone sell the font file by itself.

Lettering from films and brands is another matter: a free font that looks like the Harry Potter or Disney titles is yours to use, but their names and logos are trademarks. This is a plain answer, not legal advice.

Silhouette Studio opens SVG files from its Designer Edition up, welded just as for a Cricut. The free Basic Edition takes the PNG instead: choose Transparent, download it, open it and trace it.

Nowhere while you type: your browser sets them in the fonts you pick, from our own copies of the fonts, and makes the PNG itself. When you choose Download SVG, they go to our own server, which draws their outlines to cut, sends them back and forgets them: they are not stored or logged, and they go to no font service. Downloads are counted by font, never by your words.