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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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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Quick Tip - Enable Printer Dialog Box To Set "Best Quality"

Set Your Printer To "Best Quality"

When you click "Make It" on your print then cut project, the project will first be sent to you printer.  On the box that pops up for you to choose your printer, System Dialog is often disabled by default.  

Enable it, and then you can change your printer settings.

You will almost always want to choose "Best Quality" in the print options.

For more Tips For Solving Simple Print Then Cut Problems:


If you have an HP Printer, check out instant Ink.
It's SO much cheaper.  You pay by the page, not the ink cartridge.
So you can always print in best quality, for the same price as draft.
See the details here:

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Quick Tip - Recover Your Password Without Having To Reset It

How To Find Your Saved Passwords

If you use google to remember your logins to websites you do not need to reset your password each time you forget it.

This works for all sites, not just Design Space, but it's most handy in Design Space, where google cannot automatically fill in the password for you when you open the app.

Go to :
chrome://settings/passwords

Find the website on the list, click on the eye to the right.

Tip - CNTRL F will bring up a box allowing you to search, to find the site faster than browsing through the list.

Security settings will vary—for me, google sends a code to my phone, and once I enter it  on my laptop, I can view, or copy,  my passwords.


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Quick Tip - Why Does My Image Have A Black Box Around It?

Why Does My Project Have a Black Box Around it when I click Make it? Because it is a print then cut image. If you do not want to Print then Cut, change it to a cut image. If you want to Print, Then Cut, you want the black box [currently it's 4 brackets, previously a box surrounded the entire image] to be there.

The black box is the "registration marks".  Cricut will scan the image, then line up the design to cut based on where those black lines are.

Sometimes if your machine is not reading the registration marks, and closing the lid didn't help, nor did changing the lighting, you can go over the black box with a black marker, to make it darker, and that may help the machine to cut.

For more Tips For Solving Simple Print Then Cut Problems:

If you did not want to print the image, but only cut it, you can switch the operation to Cut/Basic


HOWEVER, that could just give you an outline shape to cut, if you uploaded an image that is not an svg file.  When uploading the svg, look for the image that looks like a website, or html file:

Read More Here:
https://fieldsofhether.blogspot.com/2020/07/quick-tip-svgs-look-like-html-files.html



If you have an HP Printer, check out instant Ink.
It's SO much cheaper.  You pay by the page, not the ink cartridge.
So you can always print in best quality, for the same price as draft.
See the details here:
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Quick Tip - How To Move Items To Another Mat After Clicking "Make It"

Cricut does a terrible job of conserving paper.
   Often it will put pieces on two mats, when they easily fit on one.  

Sometimes it's worth it to arrange things in DS and attach them, so that they go to the mat just the way you placed them. But often that's not practical.  

You can move designs from one mat to another, after clicking make it, by clicking on the image, then clicking on the 3 dots and choosing "Move To Another Mat"

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Quick Tip- Layer On The Transfer Paper


For some designs, it's easier to layer the design on the transfer paper, then transfer it all at once.

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