How to Make an SVG from a Font in Adobe Illustrator for Beginners

Published: 01 January 1970
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Fonts are one of the easiest ways to make SVG files for your Cricut, Silhouette, or other electronic cutting machine! In this video, you'll learn to make an SVG from a font, which fonts work well (and which ones don't!), and how to prepare your files so they cut on a cutting machine.

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0:00 Intro
0:37 Using the text tool
1:21 Resizing text
2:16 Changing fonts
3:10 Saving as an .ai file
4:24 Saving as a .svg file
5:02 Outlining fonts
6:55 Uniting text
7:40 Making a compound path
9:21 Checking for problems
11:35 Saving changes
12:06 Good fonts for cutting
14:25 Using simplify
16:11 Wrap up


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