Tips to Handle Thin Fonts in Cricut Design Space

hi it's an from the useless crafter thanks for joining today I'm going to show you how to handle really really thin fonts I mean we all love them um but they're really difficult to work with so let's get started I want to show you and you're going to love it um okay so I picked out two fonts that I thought were on the thinner side um they're from creative Fabrica so of course when you go into fonts when you click on text it you get your text box and then you're going to go up to font to pick your font because it's a font that I downloaded myself you're going to go into system and search for it the first one is called Farmhouse and you'll probably agree with me that it's pretty thin it's thin on the thin side so I'm going to type in Charlotte so you're going double click on it and then type it in so you can see it's it's not the thinnest spont but this is also at 10 in so if you were to make it smaller it would be on the thinner side especially if you're dealing with um I guess in this case I me pretty much any material would make it kind of difficult so we've got one font up let's do the second font so I can show you the second one is also one that I've downloaded and it is called G gone Stones let's see if I can find it maybe not oh there we go okay and I'm going to also do Charlotte in this one so we can compare the two okay let's make this big so you can see too okay I feel like both are pretty thin what you want to do is click on the font and we're just going to give it an offset but we're going to give it a really really thin offset I'm going to go with1 and you can see you can barely see that blue line and we're just going to apply and that just makes it a little bit um thicker if you think that you're okay with here then you're good to go but if you wanted another one let's just do one more so you could see just to make sure like you were doing something really really thin so we're still going to keep it at 01 and then apply and so you can see now I'm super confident that we can cut this in anything but you still need to do one thing you got to grab all of the layers and go to combine and weld okay so now this one looks like I mean you still have that style um still Whimsical and flimsy but all of this is now um just a little bit thicker all right so let's do the same thing for this one I'm going to move this out of the way and bring this one up and let's go to offset and we're going to it keeps the same um if you're doing a lot of offsets it will keep the same U measurement that you had before but sometimes it'll start over so all right let's apply and I feel like that's pretty good but let's just do one more okay now if you have not welded then what you can do is you can you know just keep maybe you realize the third one's too much so what you do is grab all three of them align and Center it so it's all right there if you think that's too thick just go to this offset and delete it right that's pretty good right there I think let's grab that and don't forget to weld easy peasy right all right our next step is when you go because if you were doing this really small let's say like that the next trip is the next the next tip is if you had a lot of text um what I would do is I would put a little text box around it and that just means getting a rectangle and you're going to just I'm going to go over here let's close out that box click on your rectangle and we're going to unlock it so that we can just stretch it out this way to make sure we get the name and then I would arrange this and send it to the back just so that you could see it so it covers it you can make this a little bit smaller if you wanted to and just make sure it's right there and if you grab these two items and you attach it what will happen is basically your machine is going to cut a rectangle around Charlotte so when you go to weed it you can weed out this um this rectangle and you're left with just your text and so it's a lot easier than trying to grab one big piece like if you were we're doing one rectangular long piece it's a lot to manage with um especially adhesive vinyl with HTV I think it's a little bit easier to handle but this just makes it easier for you to weed it out um so same thing with this one if you put let's go back to shapes rectangle you have your rectangle here and um you want to oops did I not let me close this out there we go select the rectangle um unlock it so that we can make it wider and then if you send this to the back then you can see if you want to make any adjustments if you want to make the rectangle a little bit smaller and then the important thing is on this one I'm not going to attach so I can show you what that looks like okay so I think all of these Yep they're all the same color Okay so let's go to make it save all right so when I go to make it you can see that the attached one has this the rectangle around the name the unattached does not have it it's just it's it wants to cut a rectangle and then it wants to cut the name Charlotte okay so that's why it's important on this one because grouping won't work either so like let's just group it so that you can see it okay let's go to the make it screen and you can see same thing grouping does not do it the only thing that will get it to cut exactly the way you want it to is to attach it so we're going to grab these two items and attach and that's all there is to it so when you go to make it now if this is HTV don't forget to mirror um and then you cut and it's going to be easy now the other nice thing is if you did it this way is that you could it's easy to keep your scraps you could just you know cut out this little piece and you would have the rest of it and you're it's not up to you to cut it nice and neat so just one extra little um little benefit all right that's all I have for you I wanted to share that because I think that this holiday season with Christmas I feel with Christmas it's more Whimsical you have those beautiful fonts but sometimes it's too thin so I didn't want you to have a headache trying to do all your projects all right see you next time bye