HOW TO THICKEN FONTS IN INKSCAPE TO USE IN CRICUT DESIGN SPACE
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I have Inkscape and watched videos to learn how to use it. I learned more from you in minutes than I have in hours from others. Thank you so much
Vicky Greene wow! Thank you. I'm so glad!! :)
Interesting way of thickening/thinning text. I usually duplicate the text (like adding a shadow) in Design Space then move the copy as close to the original text as possible to thicken it and group. Weld it once I’ve finished with it.
Thanks so much!!!
Thanks so much for this tip!!!!!!!!
I must have missed a step. I tried this and when I went to make it it showed 2 separate words. :(
Omg, this tip was amazing!!!!!!!!!! Thank you
thank you!
This is the best tip! I’ve wasted so much time trying to find ‘bold’ versions of fonts, and moving individual letters in DS! You’ve saved me so much time and aggravation, thanks!
I am so glad that you use close caption as some of us are hard of hearing, I couldn't understand, control shift but because you used close caption it immensely was of help to me and thank you so much.
This is sooo helpful! I’m a design space newbie so I just downloaded both of these programs to play with. Thanks so much!
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Thank you! I haven't known where to start with inkscape and I think fonts are the perfect way to start... because you explained this so well ❤
I'm so glad!! ❤️
Thank you, so much! What I like best (besides learning something valuable) is that you were straight to the point and your teaching style was flawless. Thanks so much. New subbie!
Thank you! This is my first video to figure out InkScape. I learned a lot!
really helpful video for a newbie who has just bought an explorer air. This was easy to follow and helpful. Thanks :D
Just came across this. You are the Cricut guru and I have subscribed! Thank you so much for your fabulous tutorials!!! 💖
You by far do the BEST design space videos!
I can't thank you enough for the step by step tutorial. This was so very helpful!!!!!
Thank you so much this was great! I have been avoiding inkscape I downloaded it and was intimidated by it when I first tried, yet the way you explained this was easy for me.
Thank you so much! I always look forward to your new videos. Very helpful for beginners like me :) If you have other inkspace tips that would be great to watch on video!
Great video!! I have watched a few videos about Inkscape and they have said to be sure to save as a plain.svg file rather than Inkscape file when using in Cricut DS. Not sure what the difference is. I’m fairly new to Inkscape.
Your videos are so easy to understand. Thank you for sharing! 😊
Thank you for uploading another great learning experience on cricut so helpful.
Perfect! I worked along with your video, and it was perfect!!!! Thank you for such a great video!
Thank you for following up! Great instructions for inkscape :) Appreciate it!
Donna B you're welcome!! :)
Thank You! Loved your video very calm and straight to the point!
Well thanks again! I just left you a comment on your other video about the character mapping. I also have inkscape and heck yes its intimidating as heck! I tried to make a rhinestone templet with it but failed, lol. Maybe you could do a tutorial on that. I know there are some on youtube but you are a great teacher, you get right to the point yet go about it in a way that is easy to follow along and understand. Again, thank you soooo much, this will help me with my signs and now I'll actually get them done because I wont be frustrated. I wish cricut would incorporate some of these other things like fontlab pad, and a built in character pad (they know people download their own fonts and special characters and should mend their software to make designing less frustrating with the fonts not connecting or looking very bad!
There's actually a way to control the ammount of scaling, you can find it in preferences.
See category "Behaviour". In subcategory "Steps" there's a variable for Inset/Outset step.
(From a stackexchange thread)
Thanks for the video
I figured there would be an easier way lol! I'm still trying to figure out Inkscape. Thank you so much!! :)
Is there a way to make a font monoline? I have an xy plotter and outlined fonts are a problem.
Hi Kayla. Thank you so much ! that is a great tip. I have not use inkscape yet because like you said is very intimidating for me, I am sure I will use it with this tip.
Adriana Ariza-Jones yes! It is intimidating! it definitely took me awhile until I decided to learn it. Have a great day!
What a fantastic video Thanks. Just spent an hour looking to replace a font I bought and loved but it wasn't bold enough. I'm also learning Inkscape on Udemy and haven't come across this trick yet. Cheers, Wishing you Safe and Very Well. Great Vid Thanks.
OMG! It was there all the time, I finally figured out that if it's in the side panel where you can keep the Eye open or close the Eye in Design Space it must be there someplace. I just hadn't gone down far enough. It was WAY down to 56 inches on the page Subscribed and hit the bell!
Sorry I didn't see your comment until now but yay!! So glad you got it to work! 🥰Thank you so much for subscribing! :)
Thank you so much for sharing 😘 I love watching your videos... Have a great day
dollsmaria ortiz thank you so much! Have a great day as well!
This is a great video with explanations. I followed all the steps however a while back I wasn't able to right click and now with the Ctrl V I'm not able to do it either. All it does is take of the highlight from my letter. Any suggestions??
This was a great and easy to follow tutorial. Thank you 😊 what else can Inkscape do? I just discovered your video and have subscribed 🤗
AMAZING! SO HELPFUL! THANK YOU!
Thank you for this! I haven't used inkscape because it looks so intimidating lol but I will get my feet wet by trying this!
Sassy Critic Beauty that's definitely how I felt too!! Lol
Thank you! You made that so easy!
Great tip! thank you so much, so helpful
Hallo Kayla, Nice video tutorial, Sorry my hearing translate english is so low, you can make that font so bold, what your Shortcut?
Thanks a million! Super helpful!
This is awesome! Thank you so much!
Great tutorial. Thank you!
Great! You saved my life!
Thank you so much for the video!
THANK YOU... WHAT A GREAT TOOL TO LEARN ABOUT.
I went to the website for the Samantha upright font. Do you happen to know what the difference in all their packages are as far as what you get? Thank you.
How to do on a Mac: Instead of the arrow tool select, use the path tool. Then use Command (not control) +) or 0. Everything else is viable... you still need to zoom out and back in again. Thank you so much for this video... I was in a jam and this helped me!
Thank you for this tip! Worked!! :)
Really helpful, thank you x
I didn't see the answer anywhere. Are y'all on a pc. Is there a mac Version? Or can all this be done in Illustrator? Also can the Character map uwp be downloaded on a mac? I love you video and all the different ways to make the fonts you want prettier. Thanks
Thank you so much, very helpful
I don't think I can get this on iMac, but I'not sure. Are there any other ways to thicken fonts?
How do you find the glyphs, swashes etc for your font in inkscape
Hi there. I have found this video so very helpful. However, when I paste in my glyph letters, they are cut off at the top and the bottom. What am I doing wrong and how can I fix it, do you know?
What other Character Map easier access using iMac? Thanks!
How do you install fonts that is in cricut design space to computer so I can use it in Inkscape
Thanks I learned something new
Excelent video, thank you!
I’m having problems trying to thicken my font. Does it matter if I’m on a laptop vs a computer? I have tried the control ) , should I have my caps on to get the )? HELP
See my post on what to change
So helpful!!
You are a life saver .. Thank you very much
Thank you!!! :)
super helpful, thanks!! :)
Thank u. So helpful
can you change the kerning in inkscape?
I am so excited that i have found such a useful tool for what I need! Following it exactly step by step everything works until I get to the CTRL+) part then nothing happens except I get a quick snip of a circle on my mouse image. I am sure that being so new to Inkscape there is an easy fix but I do not know what that would be.
Hi, Alicia! I was so excited to have found this video, for which I would like to thank Kayla. Unfortunately, I have the same issue as you, the outset option from Path menu is not active on my app. Perhaps Kayla would be able to give us a tip on what we could be doing wrong?
Dear Kayla! Thanks so much for sharing all these videos, I am a total newbie and I really appreciate what you are doing. I have learnt a ton from your tutorials. Keep the videos coming!
@@Mogano2022 yes I have the same issue I've tried like a million times over the last few days and keep going back to the video step by step but nothing happens :(
I try doing this using your method for the bezier tool (create my own design) and some how my design comes out pencil thin on design space.. hope someone can help me
I have a macbook and inkscape isn't an option, any suggestions on what else to use?
Thank you!!!! Can I used in my iPad
Hey, which font have you used in thankful ?
I'm having so much trouble! It's a straight forward video but what type of computer are you using? I'm using a MacBook and I'm doing what you are saying and it won't work.
how did you do it that you have so many fonts to choose from as one font?
Love t! Are you n a mac or PC?
Thanks for the helpful tutorial. Great job explaining!
Great video thanks!
Ink space is very intimidating. I downloaded it to my computer and didn't know the first thing to do. Can you do a tutorial on how to download and set up. Then how it looks when printed and cut. Thank you.
How do I get to the Character maps?
Heyy so ive got a imac and i cant seem to download character map on there...do you know if they have a imac version?....other than that evrything else was perfect thank you👍🏼
I'm SO glad!! I made a video here showing how to get glyphs on a Mac computer. You will just use the Font Book on your computer. Here's the link :) th-cam.com/video/Rs85wbS59T8/w-d-xo.html
If having a problem just using Ctrl+)....Go to Path/Object to Path...then Object/Ungroup....move anything you want to move. Or leave alone. Then click Path/Union (like weld in DS) then you can use Ctrl+) or Ctrl+(
Thank you!!!
What character map software did you download?
is there a character map for Mac that you know of?
I learned more in this one video than I have in most! Subscribe!
Thank you so much! I'm so glad it was helpful! :)
I’m new to design space, but for some reason I can’t copy the letter that I want from character map.
Can you do this with fonts that are in DS?
Hello I'm a newbie and I download the app.and I got lost on the part how you change the rest of letters after the T. So it changes to the lettering you have there.
Thankyou so much
Thank you for such great videos! I’m having a hard time doing this. I’m on a Mac... do you have tips or tricks for thickening font on a Mac?
I have a Mac too. It never worked for me.
@@juliuswilcox7327 Same for me doesn't work on my mac
I'm trying to figure out why you have to zoom tiny. I imported a text I created in design space but it's not working- I guess since it sees it as an image. I used different fonts, changed character spacing and adding glyphs so was trying to avoid doing that again.
If anyone can please help I would appreciate it. My font looks fine until I enlarge it, then it gets these little geometric holes in the font. I can't figure it out and I am on hold with Cricut (almost 30 minutes and might take up to 2 hours). I am in the middle of a project and don't know what to do.
I followed this video in Inkscape and the + ) did nothing :( When I did it directly from the Path menu, and selected outset, still nothing. Are there some fonts it just doesn't work with?
any idea why it wouldn't be working - after having done it no problem the night before? when I try to do ctrl+) it tells me "no path to inset/outset in the selection"
im so sad lol this was working so easily for me yesterday!
I'm having the same problem. So frustrating! I can't seem to find a solution.
Great tutorial, however, since I have a MAC and have to use the Beta version of inkspace this didn't work for me. I did stumble across using path-stroke to path to thicken the font which worked great for me but it only allows you to apply it once but definitely sufficient since I'm wanting to thicken the fancy font enough to be able to cut on my cricut. When you save it, it automatically saves it to an svg file which cricut likes.
*Inkscape, sorry :}
This is what I have been looking for! I have a vectorized pdf file that was provided to me and the lines are very thin. After uploading it into inkspace and saving it as an .svg file I tried to thicken the lines but nothing happens when I use the ctrl + ) to thicken the lines. Am I missing a step or is it because of the original file format that is preventing me from doing it?
I'm not familiar with Inkscape. I use Corel Draw but some features could be similar or the same as in many other graphic programs. I suspect that you are in some kind of outline view. Do the colors show in your current view mode or you see only the outlines of fonts and shapes?
when I do that it just deletes the last letter, seems like very version of inkscape has different changes or bugs so lots of things don't work like a tutorial shows.
Can I thicken a Cricut font?
I can't get it to copy and paste to design space. Every other video I have seen is great though!
You mean 'maintain the original aspect ratio'. Thank you for the video :)
How do I download fonts? I checked both my design space and Inkscape and I don’t see Samantha fonts
does this work for pictures?
you can adjust the outset line in preferences i believe which may be a bit easier than the way you are doing it
Donna Owen oh thank you! I'll give that a try!
i was away from inkspace when i wrote this go to preferences ,behavior,steps and there you can set the outset amount. im new to this and appriciate your videos !! just took a course in inkscape still learning also when you have your text selected click on the object to path and the letters will then have nodes that you can adjust for problem spots in the letters
Donna Owen thanks so much!!! That is easier than having to zoom all the way out. I'm definitely still learning inkspace too. There's so much involved with it so lots to learn! I love that there's always easier ways to do things as well. :)
Kayla's Cricut Creations will you do another video showing the process you two are referencing? I’m brand new to this and don’t have a clue! But I love your videos
You have the character map for Microsoft, but is there a separate one for MAC users?
Hi! To find the characters for a Mac you can find it in your font book. I have a tutorial here: th-cam.com/video/Rs85wbS59T8/w-d-xo.html
Everytime I do the outset, my font turns into a blob, not the crisp little thickening in the video. I did the zooming out option and same thing. Please help! I'm going crazy!
Same thing is happening to me.
The font I'm w a being to thicken is not showing the full letter in Inkscape. It cuts the bottom f and y off family. I added glyphs in design space and would like the easiest way to thicken. I'm not sure how to get the letters to show in Inkscape.
I am not sure why, but I was not able to make any font I selected thicker in inkscape. Any idea what I am doing wrong??
how do i find the inkscape
My commands in inkscape won't work? Control parenthesis does nothing =( please help
Where do you go to highlight a letter I am stuck at the part where you highlighted the T.