Quick Tip - How To Use A Character Map

How To Use A Character Map

Open your font in your character map
Find the glyph you want to use.  
Copy it
Paste it.

IMPORTANT - The program you paste into must be set to the exact same font.
So if you are pasting into design space, make sure your text box is set to the exact font you copied from.  

If you copy from Samantha Upright, and the text box in Design Space is set to Samantha Craft, the glyph will not appear.

For fonts with glyphs, I always recommend using fontlab pad, then saving as an svg and uploading to Design Space.  FLP is free, and it will properly space your fonts.

That's the quick version. For a step by step with screenshots, go here:
(That also tells you about fonts with "easy glyphs" that do not require a character map)

In Maintype Logic (My favorite free character map) you can paste all of the glyphs into the sample panel and then copy and paste all of the text at once, once you have a design you like.

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Quick Tip - What To Try When Cricut Can't Read The Registration Marks

What To Try When Cricut Can't Read The Registration Marks On Your Print Then Cut Project

Additional things to try:
Sometimes matte scotch tape over the black registration marks helps.
Make sure your mat is about 1/8 of an inch inside the lines on your mat.
Trying taking a black marker over the registration marks

For more Tips For Solving Simple Print Then Cut Problems:

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Quick Tip - How To Remove The Grid In Cricut Design Space


There is no way to save a design from Design Space to share outside of Design Space.
You can not download your designs, and you cannot share your designs if you have uploaded any images to them.

 If you are making a design for someone else, and want to send it to them so they can see it, the easiest way is to take a screenshot of the design.  And before you do that, you may want to remove the grid, so the design is not cluttered up with those extra lines.

You can remove the grid by clicking in the top left corner of the canvas.  Click twice.  To bring it back, simply click there again.

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Quick Tip - Why Is My Text "Bubbling" (Or Writing As An Outline)


Quick Tip - Most fonts, when switched to "draw" in design space, will write as an outline, or bubble - because the pen will follow the same path as the blade would to cut the text. 

To draw "single line" text, without the words outlining, you need either a font made specifically for drawing ($) OR you need a font that will "collapse on itself" and appear to be single line.

There are a lot of free fonts that will work as writing fonts, without bubbling, in cricut design space - I have hundreds of them sorted by pen size, with samples, here:
https://fieldsofhether.blogspot.com/2017/11/6-single-line-fonts-that-will-write.html


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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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