Showing posts with label Fonts. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Fonts. Show all posts

The Font From...

 
Where to find the Friends Font, The Walt Disney Font, The Rae Dunn Font
& more!
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Free Halloween Fonts

 
Halloween Fonts
Related Links:
Commercial Use
Halloween Themed Fonts
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https://bit.ly/42XZBSj






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Personal Use
HALLOWEEN FONTS
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https://freesvgdesigns.com/halloween-spider-web-monogram-font-free-svg-files-904/
https://freesvgdesigns.com/halloween-skull-font-free-svg-files-1464/


Dafont has an entire category of Halloween Fonts
Find It Here:



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NOT FREE
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Where To Find Loads Of Free Fonts
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Quick Tip - Copy & Paste All Chosen Glyphs At Once


Did you know that you can use the sample panel in maintype logic to put glyph options together, then once you have a combination you like, you can select everything in the sample panel and paste it all at once into fontlab pad (or right into design space) ?

How To Find & Use Font Glyphs

For more on how to sort and manage fonts in Maintype Logic - https://fieldsofhether.blogspot.com/2019/05/how-to-manage-organize-all-of-those.html

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Find an index of all my cricut quick tip cards here:
https://fieldsofhether.blogspot.com/2019/01/quick-tip-cards-for-cricut-newbies.html



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Quick Tip - Use Wordmark.it To See Text In Every Font Installed On Your Device

Use the website 

To See  Text In Every Font Installed On Your Device
Helpful for choosing fonts, if you are using fonts you have installed!

Personally, I use a much more complex system, because I have 6 gazillion fonts, and I do not install most of them. Fontlab Pad will use fonts right from their zip files, no need to install.  I use the free version of Maintype Logic (it is also a character map) to organize my fonts.  But it's a lot of work to set up the organizational system!  

Wordmark.it is a great place to start.

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How To Use Free Dingbat Fonts As Cut Files


Did you know that there are many free fonts with graphics you can cut with your cricut?  Not just flourishes and frames, but full sketches.  For instance, here is Harry Potter & The Dingbats on dafont:
How To Use Free Dingbat Fonts As Cut Files

Every one of those images is already a "cut file".  Use it just as you would any other font.  For me, I open it in Fontlab Pad, so there is no need to install the font and clutter up my font list.  You can use fonts right from the zip files in fontlab pad.    (This will not work for ALL dingbat fonts.  Sometimes you have to install them for FLP to read them)

For Dobby, I just had to type the letter K, as shown in the chart on the fonts download page.
Then I saved it as an svg, just as I would with any system font I want to use in Design Space.  (Because, DS space does not read font kerning and never displays system fonts properly)

Then I upload it to Design space, just a I would any other svg.
Now, that does not mean this will cut well.  Some of these images have a LOT of detail, and it could take awhile, or be a real pain to weed.  But they will all cut.


Free Dingbat Fonts
There are dingbat fonts for just about everything, from sports logos, to Disney, to Coffee & Unicorns.   At Dafont, go to the Dingbat category - https://www.dafont.com/mtheme.php?id=7
In the bar across the top you will see a listing for dingbat themes, you can click on any of these for more animals, or logos, etc. - 
Please be aware that these are not all family friendly.  Even in categories you might think would be.

Here's a sampling of what you will find:


There are 6 pages in the Tv & Movie Category.  Star Wars, Hogwarts, Disney, Snoopy, Star Trek, Loony Toons, and so, so very much more

In the Games Category, you will find everything from playing cards, Poker, Chess, and Dice, to Mario Brothers and Sonic


In the Logos category you will find eveything from social media icons to football teams to fast food restaurants, and soda brands.  All sorts of logos. (There's a whole category just for sports, too, find that here.)

In the Nature category there are mountains, leaves, MANY different flower designs (including the folk art style) and there was even a camper in one font.

Another example from the nature cateogory - fall designs, including Pooh & Hello Kitty



The Army Category has a lot of guns, ships, airplanes, targets... and even military designs such as the blue star mom flag, medal, army logo, and more.


The Horror Category is a lot of skulls and horror movie icons, but it's also where you will find several fonts full of sugar skulls

Here you will find everything from instruments and musical notes, to entire fonts dedicated to artists such as Bob Marley, Justin Bieber, and Michael Jackson.

This category is...  diverse.  Flags from various countries, drones, buses, buildings, more logos, cartoons, retro graphics, bicycles, watches...  There's one called Transportation with everything from hotair baloons and trolleys to old cars, one of pirate ships, and one called "My town" that appears to just be everything in this persons town from a  Burger King logo to a duck.


Also in Various - 


The Kid Category is almost as diverse as the Various category.  Everything from cartoons and cute animals, to babies, and animals on surfboards.  Doodle Bears is especially cute.




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Where To Find Free Farmhouse Style Fonts

Many farmhouse designs are simple quotes you can create yourself, with a pretty font.  Here's a selection of both commercial use, and personal use FREE fonts that work well for farmhouse style designs

Quick Links:
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Free Commercial Use Farmhouse Style Fonts
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Goodies
Battshion 
Seek Out 
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These are all commercial use fonts - which means you can use them on items you create to sell.  For some   of them,  particularly the goodies font, if you want the tails, you will want to use a character map to see the extra tails & swirls
 
 Note - Goodies Comes With Three Versions

For How To Use A Character Map To Find Font Glyphs:


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Free Personal Use Farmhouse Style Fonts
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These are free personal use fonts, which you can use on your own personal projects not for sale.
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These do NOT need a character map, they have "easy glyph" tails.  You just type ( ) or [ ] for the "extras.  Find a cheat sheet for Free Easy Glyph fonts here:

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MORE FREE FONTS
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 Each Week A Variety Of Great Sites Offer Free Fonts & SVGS
"On Sale For Free"
Find The List Each Week Here:
https://fieldsofhether.blogspot.com/2018/05/cricut-free-this-week-premium-fonts.html

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Free Fonts & SVGS For Monograms
https://fieldsofhether.blogspot.com/2017/11/free-monograms-split-monograms-for.html

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And For Split Monograms - a popular farmhouse design!
https://fieldsofhether.blogspot.com/2018/12/making-split-monograms-in-cricut-design.html

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Fonts With "Easy Glyphs" - No Character Map Needed
With Cheat Sheets - 
https://fieldsofhether.blogspot.com/2017/09/fonts-with-tails.html

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And For Still More
Join the Facebook Group For This Page Here:
https://www.facebook.com/groups/1121399284857845/1327865230877915/
This is where I compile all of the lists that end up on this blog.  There will be posts with categories and themes, and then I add new freebies in the comments each day.  Eventually I use that thread to update the free post on this blog. TONS of freebies posted here.
AND you can share your projects, ask questions, and even share your own tutorials!
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Making A Mirror, Or Stacked Text, Design in Design Space

Stacked Text, Or Mirror Text, Designs have one solid word in the center, with partial outlines of the text above and below the image.  

There are three ways to create these. 
 1. Use a font with an outline and the slice tool in Design Space, or
 2. Use the free Stacked Text Generator - it generates a png, which can typically be switched to cut  in Design Space, with no problems.
3. Download a Stacked or Mirror Font and type your text in the different versions of the font.  Detailed step by steps and lists of fonts are included below.
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How To Manage & Organize All Of Those Great Fonts

Did you know that Main Type, the best free character map around, is also a great font manager and organizer?  I've been looking for a way to organize my fonts, and it turned out the answer was literally right in front of me! 

 [Maintype works on Windows based systems only.  Sorry - I do not use Apple Products and have no idea how to organize fonts on their system]
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I know this post is long, and can feel a bit overwhelming, if you are new so here's the "Quick Version" before we get into all of those details.  This particular post is all about how I set up Maintype Font Manager to make it work efficiently for me.  

1. First I organize my fonts into folders by category.  One folder for Stencil Fonts, one folder for easy glyph fonts, one for good cutting fonts...

2. Then I tell Maintype Font Manager where to find those folders - and it shows each folder as it's own "Group" - so when I want to preview my stencil font options, it shows me just the fonts I have in my stencil font folder. 

3. Then I use FontLab Pad to open that font [The majority of my fonts are NOT installed on my computer], and in that free little utility, I type my text [or copy and paste it from the preview in Maintype], save it as an svg, and upload it to Design Space.

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The Longer Version
Back To The Details Of 
How I Set Up Maintype Font Manager
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Here's how I set it up:

The first thing I did was sort all of my fonts into folders, by categories that make sense to me.

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CATEGORIZING MY FONTS
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Here's a detailed look at what each of those categories means [to me] and a look at some of what is in each folder
https://fieldsofhether.blogspot.com/2024/01/my-font-categories.html

Once I have them in folders, Maintype will view each folder as a "Group", so I can simply click on each group to preview every font in that folder.  Quick and Easy!

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Getting Them Into Maintype
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The Font Maintype Font Manager from High Logic is a FREE download.
There is an option to pay for the premium version, for extra features, but that's not necessary.
https://www.high-logic.com/font-manager/maintype/download

Once you have downloaded and installed the program, you will need to tell it where your fonts are stored.

In the top middle of the screen, you'll see a folder with an a, and a plus sign.
Click on that, and a box will drop down giving you the option to browse for your fonts.

Personally, I store all of my fonts in onedrive [cloud drive] as well as have them backed up on external hard drive.  All of my categorized subfolders are in one folder named 0Fonts. 


I have two  boxes checked on this screen.
Index Recursively [includes sub folders]
And sync every 60 minutes.  You do not need to allow it to sync automatically, you can refresh the folders manually whenever you would like.  

Click Ok, and Maintype will add all of your folders into its directory.

Next you'll want to organize your view.
This is not what your program will look like by default.

Start by going to view/panels and choosing what you want to see.
For me, I want my main screen to have big panels showing the things I actually use.  Those are:

  • Preview [a list of fonts]
  • Characters [a character map]
  • Sample [the text I am creating]
  • Zoom [a zoomed in view of the item selected on the character map]

There are other panels that I find helpful, and want to be easily accessible, but that I do not look at all the time.  Those are:
  • Views - this is how I see my system fonts, which I do not have in any of my groups.  All of those Microsoft fonts and fonts installed with various programs by default.  Under Views, click on "ungrouped" to see those.  If there is something there I REALLY love, I'll copy it from my system font folder into one of my category folders, to back it up. 
  • Tag Search [a search feature for any tags I add to fonts]
  • Groups [the folders of fonts by category that I have added]
  • Information [name of the font, who created it, etc]
  • Tags [how you add tags to fonts]

So how did I get those options all off to the side, out of the way like that? Well, it's different than in any other program I've ever used, and it can take a little trial and error. It's not difficult, I promise, it's just..  different.

I'm going to add the "Integrity Panel", to show you how this is done.  
View/Panel click on integrity
Where the panel appears depends on which panel it is.  The Integrity Panel appears on the bottom left.

Click on the blue bar, and drag it up.  It will now float on top of your screen.

This is where it becomes unique.
Click on the blue top bar again, and drag it until a new icon appears on the screen

It looks a little bit like a space ship.
Each section of our "spaceship" is an area where the panel can be moved.  We're trying to move it to the top left, so drag the box not to the top left of the screen, but rather to the far left of the "spaceship" icon.  

Right where my cursor is in the above photo.  You'll see part of the screen turn blue, once it does - as shown above - release your cursor.

The panel is now on the main screen, on the top right.  See at the top of the panel, there's a pushpin?  Click on that pushpin.

Now the panel is off the main screen, and listed on the left.  To see it, click on it over there.  To remove it from that sidebar, click on it to view it, then click on the x beside the pushpin.

Repeat those steps until you have everything over there that you want, and once you are happy with your layout, go to View/Save Layout. Here you can save your layout, so if you accidentally mess it up later, it's quick to put it back to your default.

Now I can click on "Group" on the far left, and see my font folders.
I choose the folder I want to display, and those fonts are all listed for me to work with.

Note that at this point I have not tagged anything.  I will add tags later - for things like My Go To  Favorite Fonts, or Good Geocaching Fonts, or easy to weed fonts..  but that's for another day - and if I never get to it, it really won't matter, it's not necessary at all.

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Tips & Tricks For Using Fonts In Design Space
https://fieldsofhether.blogspot.com/2021/06/tips-tricks-for-using-fonts-in-cricut.html


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