Fields Of Heather: True Single Line Fonts To Write With In Cricut

Truly single line fonts for use with pens and the draw feature in Cricut

When using the pens with cricut, the pen will follow the same path as the blade, typically giving you an outlined, or "bubble" text. There are more than 100 free fonts that will collapse on themselves and appear single line, but there are also free truly single line fonts - some of which are shown above.

True Single Line Fonts: (Click on the name to go to the download page)

Delbert Sketch - Free
Resamitzl - Free
Spicy Sketcher - Free
Dear Agatha - NOT free, but comes in cursive

Not Truly Single Line, but will work - Find the lists sorted by marker sizes, here:

https://fieldsofhether.blogspot.com/2017/11/6-single-line-fonts-that-will-write.html

These are all written 10.75 inches wide, with a bic pen, using my cricut air 2.

Here's a super zoomed in version, to show you that the pen did not trace these twice - they are truly written as one line. (the fuzziness is from the quality of the photo uploaded here)

There are some odd things that happen when you work with these fonts. Nothing to worry about, but just an FYI -

When you upload the hairline fonts - Dear Agatha & Delbert Sketch shown here, they are invisible. Those three uploads are the files that wrote in the sample above - but they appear invisible when you upload them.

Resamitz looks very wrong as an svg - but once uploaded to Design Space, works perfectly

I rarely install fonts, anything I am only using occasionally I just keep in zip files and use from fontlab pad, saved as an svg and uploaded to Design Space that way. Read more here: https://fieldsofhether.blogspot.com/2018/01/using-fontlabpad-with-cricut-design.html

So for this write test, I used the font in FLP, saving it as an svg. You can see how it looks on the right. But when I upload that svg to DS - it automatically turns it into the single line image you see on the left, and it writes perfectly.

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Single Line Vs Hairline

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Here's an explanation of single line vs hairline, from the Dear Agatha font. This can get confusing, because as you saw above, the Resamitz font looks one way as an svg, and yet writes as a hairline. On the other hand, if you use the single line Agatha font, instead of the hairline version (which is also single line), it will not work properly. There's a lot of trial and error when using fonts in Design Space.