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Using FontLab Pad with Cricut Design Space

 



One of the many limitations of design space is it's inability to properly space some fonts - as the designers wished for them to space.  This is how the buttercup font looks when used in design space:

On some fonts you can just change the letter spacing. But on many, like this one, some letters would overlap and some would still not touch.  You can ungroup, and manually move each letter... but fontlabpad is much faster.

Open fontlabpad, choose File/Open Installed:

Type in the name of the font you want to use:
Type your text - 

Then choose file/Save As - and save as an svg.
Open design space, upload the image.  See how the background is checked?  That's because this is an svg - no need to clean it up at all.
This is how it imports in design space.  If you are cutting, be sure to select all and weld so that it cuts as one word and not each individual letter.

It seems like a lot - but it's so fast and easy - much faster and easier than ungrouping and moving each letter to fix the spacing!

It Works Without Installing The Font

This is one of my favorite parts of this program - you DO NOT HAVE TO INSTALL THE FONT!!  You just need to download it, you can use it right from the zip file.

Often I am working on a project, and I need a font, but I know I won't really use the font more than once or twice.  I do not need it installed.  With fontlab pad, you can simply choose open, and browse to the fonts zip file.  

For Example, I wanted to use this Narnia font for a project, but I'm unlikely to ever use the font again.  I downloaded it, but did not install it.  I opened it in fontlab pad with the page for the Narnia BLL font open in the background so I could see the font key.  Then I typed:'

012
Nar$ia
(because the key showed that is what I needed to type to get these specific flourishes)

saved as an svg, uploaded to design space, and never installed the font.  Now when I look at wordmark it to choose a font, this one will not be cluttering up my choices.  :-)

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