Fields Of Heather: Which Apps & Websites To Use With Cricut -

A list of websites and apps to help make the most of your cricut machine.

Want To See Thumbnail Views Of Your SVGS?

This is not an app or website, but rather an extension that makes the thubnails of svgs appear as previews, and not just an html icon

http://fieldsofhether.blogspot.com/2018/01/how-to-see-thumbnails-of-svg-files.html

More about Organizing SVG Files

https://fieldsofhether.blogspot.com/2019/02/organizing-svgs-dealing-with-all-my.html

Background Eraser

The Background Eraser app is great for removing the background of photos before converting them to SVG https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.handycloset.android.eraser&hl=en_US

Even better - the Photoroom app - free - removes most backgrounds in one quick step

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.photoroom.app&hl=en_US&gl=US

Sites & Apps For Converting Images To SVGS

Ten Sites & Apps for converting images to SVGS

https://fieldsofhether.blogspot.com/2019/02/programs-sites-for-converting-to-svg.html

Convert Studio Files to svg at the website here:

http://www.ideas-r-us-software.uk/FileConverters/SilhouetteStudioConverter.aspx

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Design Your Own Gift Box SVG

This site will allow you to choose a pattern (MANY options) then your sizes, and it will generate an svg for making a gift box.

https://www.templatemaker.nl/en/giftbox/

Need Help To Identify A Font?

“what the font”. Web Android Apple What the font almost never works for me - but I have seen others get excellent results! I think it depends on the font.
What Font Is This Web
Identifont Web
Font Matcherator Web
Font Identifier Web

Here's a comparison of several font identification sites. What Font Is had the best results for me:

https://fieldsofhether.blogspot.com/2021/02/comparing-sites-that-identify-fonts.html

Need Help Choosing The Right Font?

WordMark.it

Want to see what your saying will look like in various fonts?

Use: WordMarkIt Web

THIS is my favorite site. It makes it SO much faster to choose a font!!

Want to See Your Fonts Spaced The Way The Font Designer Intended?

Design Space Updates over the past year have greatly improved how fonts display when used with Cricut. DS however, still does not accurately read font kerning. Ligatures, which are glyphs that appear naturally based on letter combinations in some fonts, will still not appear in Design Space. With fontlab pad, you don't even have to install the fonts to use them - you can open them right from zip files. It's free, and simple to use.

FontLab Pad - http://fieldsofhether.blogspot.com/2018/01/using-fontlabpad-with-cricut-design.html

Where To Find Free Fonts

Want free fonts? Use: fontzillion or Dafont.com
(Do NOT add an S to Dafont.) Dafont is the most popular site for free fonts, and there are SO many great fonts here. However, often they are free samples, or previews, not full versions.

There are SO many places to get free fonts, including in my daily facebook post [on Crafting With Fields Of Heather] of free fonts and free svgs. Here's a long list of where to find free fonts:

https://fieldsofhether.blogspot.com/2020/05/where-to-find-loads-of-free-fonts.html

A VERY detailed step by step of how to download fonts and install them to use in design space. (Fonts are installed to your device, then used as system fonts - NOT uploaded to design space) https://fieldsofhether.blogspot.com/2017/12/all-about-fonts-text-in-cricut-design.html

To See All Of The "extras" (glyphs) in fonts

High Logic Main Type Character Map
For windows - this is so much better than the built in character map. You use this to find all the extra glyphs (pretty swirls and tails) in fonts like Samantha.
http://www.high-logic.com/font-manager/maintype.html
How it works:
http://fieldsofhether.blogspot.com/2017/11/using-samantha-font-in-cricut-design.html

To Add Fonts On Your Ipad or apple phone -

Anyfont

I don't use any apple devices myself, but apparently on ipads and apple phones you cannot just add your own fonts - there IS an app that will allow you to do so though. (It's not free)
https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/anyfont/id821560738?mt=8

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