Fonts With Tails (Glyphs) Cheat Sheet

Cheat Sheets for "Easy Glyph" Fonts with Tails.  No Character map needed, for these fonts you simply type characters like [ ] or ( ) to add the extra tails or swirls.
Links to download each font are found under the photos

Quick Tips:
  • These are "easy glyph" fonts, but many fonts with extra glyphs will require a character map.  you can read more about how to use those here
  • Sometimes a font preview on dafont will show pretty tails, but you will not see them when you download the font.  Dafont Fonts are frequently Free Demo Versions of commercial use fonts.  The Demo versions usually do not include all of the extra glyphs.
  • Some fonts, like All The Roll, have ligatures—special effects that occur when you type certain letter combinations.  You will never see these features in Design Space—use a free program like fontlab pad to display and space your system fonts properly and save as an svg.
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Fonts With Simple Tails
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   Kl Cupid    Millennial Solstice  Flowers2

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Fonts With Fancy Tails
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Kindly Jasmine      Rhinos Land      Play Day


Shink    LillyBelle   Vacations In Paradise
High On Fire      White Festive   
 Old Photograph         Old Story


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Fonts With Heart Tails
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Bunch Blossoms     Countryside     Kelya
Hello Lovely      Crazy Love      Nirvana     Yessy


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Fonts With "Splashes"
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Hello Sunshine     Honey Cute 

Linglelenglang

Plastic Beauty comes in two versions.  You want the LIGHT version if you are using a cutting machine such as cricut or silhouette.  The regular version will probably work too - but it has so many extra cuts (distressing) in it that it will take a long time to cut, and will be miserable to weed.

This is NOT an "easy glyph" font - for this one you would need a character map to access the glyphs.
I'm including it because it's a pretty commercial use font with the "splashes" shown in the easy glyph fonts above.

Just in case you'd like a whale with your splash.  :-)
To get the whale, you can type a variety of things - & , 4, 5, < }..  all the same whale


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Fonts With Multiple Glyphs
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Shorelines      kl cupid

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Veni

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Fonts With Swash Tails
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To find these, and many more, try this link:


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Misti Fonts
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Where To Find Free Fonts By Style, By Type, And By Holiday
The Crafting With Fields Of Heather Font Index
And Tips & Tricks For Properly Spacing, Adding Glyphs, Organizing, Making Shadow Text, and more!

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OLD VERSION Easy Glyph Cheat Sheets
If that link does not work (too much traffic) Try This One.

36 comments:

  1. wow, you are awesome, your explanation is so precious and touching different areas. The list you made helps me to locate where they exactly are, that I do not have to keep searching. Thanks again for the helpful tips and hints.

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  2. Thank you! Love them all! You're awesome.

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  3. Thank you so much! i have been downloading all sorts of fonts hoping that the tail would just appear once I type.. didn't know I have to type a character for the tails! You are my savior!Cheers!

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  4. OMG! Thank you so much for all this useful information!!!

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  5. just do a regular download from your post link, or what??? I will try later tonight

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    1. you can either right click and download the photos, or there is a link to the pdf files near the top of the post (above the first full chart, below the photos of just the tails - those have not been added to my charts yet)

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  6. Hi how do I make Yessy capital letters appear without the glyphs like this pic... https://ifonts.xyz/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/yessy-font-3.png

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  7. Hi can i add the tail to only the fonts you have listed above? I wanted to add the tail to the font 'leisha'
    how do I do that?

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    1. Often the fonts on dafont are not full versions of the font. That's the case with Leisha, the tails are not included in the free download from dafont. You could add the swashes from another font - or you could download the full version of Leisha. The full version is $12 - https://crmrkt.com/2mQXEA

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  8. I cannot fine the download for fontlabpad Help please!

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    1. Right at the top of the page (they have recently changed this) there is a spot to enter your email, and they email you the links. https://www.fontlab.com/fontlab-pad/

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  9. Thank you so much for sharing all of your great cheat sheets with us! What a wonderful time saver! And, thank you for the links to some wonderful fonts as well!

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  10. It was exactly what I was looking for. Thank you so much for post!!

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  11. I have a Mac. How can I use the glyphs (for example the "r" in Buttercup with the swirls underneath) in FontLab? I've tried dragging and dropping as well as cut/paste. Nothing is working.

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    1. You have to open your character map. I don't use Apple devices, but I have heard that Mac has a good built in character map. On windows, I recommend using maintype logic's free character map. Then you copy and paste from the character map. Make sure you have the font already selected in fontlab pad - it has to be the exact same font you are copying from the character map.

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  12. This is amazing thank you so much for this!

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  13. This really was super helpful, thank you!

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  14. YOU are amazing. Thank you so much for all your hard work and sharing with us.

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  15. I usually catch on pretty good but i followed your intructions, downloaded and paid for Samantha Craft, then installed maintype character map along with fontlab pad. I can't seem to pull up the font and the get the swirly letters to show in the character map. What am I doin wrong? I'm using Windows 10. Thank you!

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  16. What do you see in the character map when you look at Samantha Craft? I can't post photos in the comments here - but I have screenshots step by step here - https://fieldsofhether.blogspot.com/2017/11/using-samantha-font-in-cricut-design.html

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  17. I just found your list & I sure wish I could HUG you!!! :) Thank you for taking the time to make this. I'm having so much fun designing things, but just couldn't figure out how people were doing this.

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  18. Hi! How would I make the capital letters appear without the glyphs? I've searched everywhere and can't find anything. TIA

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  19. is there a site you recommend to find out what a font is? I saw a font I love and have spent hours trying to figure out what it is.

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    1. WhatTheFont will sometimes give pretty good ideas as to what font it is by evaluating a jpg.

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  20. I'm also searching for an app or site that you can upload a screenshot or something of a font that you dont know the name of and it will generate a list of similar fonts or the name of the font. Any recommendations?

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  21. I'm really having a hard time right now trying to find an app or a way to use this amazing fonts using my favorite applications. Can someone help me?

    PS:IM ONLY USING AN ANDROID PHONE

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    1. This may help: https://fieldsofhether.blogspot.com/2020/07/how-to-use-font-glyphs-on-android-ipad.html

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    2. There's also a facebook group for this blog where someone may be able to help you more - https://www.facebook.com/groups/1121399284857845/

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  22. You are amazing!! This is exactly what I was looking for!! Great explanations to... Thank you for making this older woman's life a litte easier!

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  23. Hello, how do we find the Capital Letters/Uppercase for the beginning of a letter that has a gyphs or swash? I can't find it. Thanks

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  24. It's odd that they don't actually have tails. I've checked 15 so far and I'm guessing the others won't either.

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    1. Are you entering the proper character, as shown on the charts, for the tails to appear? I've tested all of these myself - they all work for me just as shown in my cheat sheets...

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