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63,159 downloads (3,156 yesterday) Free for personal use - 2 font files. Hello my Cricut crafty friend! 👋 Today I'm going to show you how to get legitimate free fonts to use with your Cricut, plus how to install them on a mac. And in this post you'll find the best places to find free fonts to use in Cricut Design Space for your crafts. You may have noticed that Cricut has fonts that you can pay for. But, buying fonts can add up super quick.
How To Download Fonts To Cricut
When you are creating projects for personal use, you can make them unique by being able to upload free fonts to Cricut Design Space.
It's not very difficult and it will add even more variety to your creative endeavors.
You will be able to access and use the fonts on your computer in Cricut Design Space. Find the fonts you love from a variety of free font sites and download them to your device. This is a skill that every Cricut lover needs to know how to perform.
Note: There is also an option to buy fonts from Cricut but this method will help save you loads of money!
4 Easy Steps to Upload Fonts
One misconception with using Design Space is that you need to transfer a font to the software for it to use that font. The process is actually much easier than that!
Have you ever downloaded a font to use on your PC or MAC? Maybe you needed to use it in Microsoft Word to make a heading.
Or you are an 'old-time Scrapbooker' and you needed a particular font to design a title for a page layout or a card sentiment.
You have most likely downloaded a font before!
- Visit a website like dafont.com or myfreefonts.com
- Download the font of your choice.
- Unzip (or extract) the files.
- Double click the file and follow the directions to install them onto your system's hard drive.
Now that you have the font that you want on your device, how do you upload a and use that font in Cricut Design Space?
You don't.
What?!!
When you open up Cricut's Design Space it will actually read the different fonts that you have downloaded to your system. The program takes care of everything for you. That is all you need to know how to add fonts to Cricut.
You have the option to use the fonts that Cricut offers or to use the fonts you have installed.
Open Design Space.
(If you are unfamiliar with Design Space and would like a walk-through guide you can check out this post.)
Click on the T on the left-hand toolbar to open the TEXT feature.
Next, click on the design space to create a blank TEXT box.
Once you have a text box on your design window, navigate to the top toolbar.
You will see a default font and a dropdown arrow.
Click on this dropdown arrow and you will see a selection of fonts that available.
You can view ALL the fonts, the fonts that are only available through the Cricut, or you can view just the fonts on your system.
If you have written down the font you want to use or you remember the font, you can also use the search feature to find your font.
Tips for Using System Fonts with Cricut Design Space
There are a few things to keep in mind when you are creating text features for your projects. If you start a project and then plan to go in search of other fonts, be sure and save your project.
If you refresh your Design Space page you will lose all your work. While you are working you may decide you want to download a different font for your project. It will not be available in your font list until you refresh the page.
Try out a few fonts when you are browsing on the free font sites. Download them before you start your projects and then they will be available while you are designing.
Using Your Favorite Fonts on Tablets or Phones
There are apps that you can use to download fonts to your iPad, iPhone, tablet, or Android. Having fonts on your tablet or phone makes designing on the go a lot easier.
Have a few minutes of wait time at an appointment or the kids' sports practice? Spend that time designing a new cut file!
If you have an Apple device, you can download AnyFont (it's $2 but worth it).
If you have an Android device then you could look into these apps: iFont, FontFix, HiFont, or Fonster.
- Navigate to your favorite font sites like DaFont.com or MyFreeFonts.com and find the fonts you want to download.
- Click on DOWNLOAD on the right-hand side of the font section.
- Click OPEN IN ANYFONT. This should open another window with a ZIP image and Open in Anyfont. If it doesn't, you may need to click on the SEND button on the bottom of the window.
- Click on the name of the font you are downloading.
- Click ALLOW giving the website permission to download the font to your device.
- Click INSTALL on the top right corner to add the font to your device.
- If it asks for your APPLE ID, enter that information. This is making sure the site truly has permission to access your device.
- Click NEXT. If the INSTALL button appears again, click it another time.
- You will eventually see a page that says DONE.
You can now go to Cricut Design Space on your device and access your system fonts the same way you would on your computer.
Now you can design original cut files on your iPhone or iPad. Your crafting world just became that much cooler!
Now that you have some new fonts in your system to use with Cricut Design Space, how do you alter them? How do you make a script font cut in one smooth section? Learn more about script fonts in this post.
If you would like to learn more about how to identify fonts to use in your projects, there is a post here.
Learn how to download free fonts to your Cricut
It is fast and easy to download fonts from Dafont to Cricut.
There are many other free font sites you can download from as well, but I prefer Dafont. So I will be speaking and showing pictures from Dafont, but this process applies to them all.
How to Download Fonts from Dafont to Cricut – Video Tutorial
How to Download Fonts from Internet to Cricut
- Once you are on the Dafont site, you will see lots of choices. From here you can start clicking types of fonts and just explore. You will be able to scroll through tons and tons of fonts under each category.
- You can also choose to see how a font will look with a word or phrase you are wanting to use.
To do this, click on any font type in the header pictured above. This just gets us to a new page with a different tool bar. Once you click on that a new tool bar appears. There is a Preview button on the far left hand side. Here is where you will type in your text you are wanting new font for. You will still need to pick the Font Category, but this makes it so much easier to actually see how your text will look with each font.
So lets say I want the words Welcome to Our Home. So I type that in the Preview box and then click Submit. - I think it really helps to see your text in each font. Especially if you are looking for something particular.
So search and play with this feature as much as you want.
There is no limit to how many you can download. - To download a font from Dafont all you need to do is click the Download button on the far right.
Once you do that, it will send you to a page on your computer to save it. Mine already knows where to save fonts, but you may need to create a new folder to save all your fonts.
If you don't like where this is, just click Desktop and create a new folder there. - After you save it, in the saved file double click the name of the font.
If there are several versions of the font, I try to choose either OpenType or TrueType. The other versions can be a bold version or italic version. You can download them as well. Some versions of the file are information about the font. - When you double click on the name of the font you downloaded, a new box will pop up. Click Install.
- That's it! Your font is now installed on your computer.
To get Cricut to recognize it you will need to refresh your Cricut App.
Go to Cricut. At the top left hand corner click View, then click Force Reload. This will refresh Cricut and your fonts will be in their program now. - To find your fonts and make sure they downloaded to Cricut, type in some text in your Cricut Design Space canvas and then in the font dropdown type in the name of the font you downloaded. Mine was Goo Easter.
Free Fonts For Cricut App
That's it! You can download as many as you want. I have hundreds of fonts downloaded.
The next question you will probably ask is….How can I organize my fonts?
I have a fix for that too. It's called a Font Manager. Here is my blog post telling you how to download the font manager and how to use it. You will thank me for this one. Organize Fonts with a Font Manager.
Happy Crafting!