Web Development: How to Upload Fonts to Cricut Design Space

How to Upload Fonts to Cricut Design Space

Final product image — What You'll Be Creating

Found a new font and need to know how to add fonts to Cricut Design Space? Or maybe you'd like to expand your Cricut font library with custom fonts. In this tutorial, we'll walk through how to add fonts to Cricut and how to use your newly installed Cricut font.

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What You'll Need

In this walkthrough, we'll use the following font to show you how to add fonts to Cricut Design Space:

Cricut Font Download — This Cricut font as well as other cute Cricut fonts are available for download on Envato Elements.

Feel free to download this font to work along as we explore how to upload fonts to Cricut Design Space. However, you can use any other font you prefer, as well. When you're looking to download fonts for Cricut, remember to consider your project. Thin fonts might be nice for drawing, but not all that great for cutting.

1. How to Upload a Font to Cricut

Step 1

Let's begin by discussing how fonts work in Cricut Design Space.

Open up Cricut Design Space on your computer. It's free software that you can download and install, on Mac or PC, that works with your Cricut Machine of choice.

Here's what the Home Screen looks like in Cricut Design Space.

Step 2

To access our Cricut font library, click to create a New Project. We can click on the icon at the top of the screen or in the bottom area, where we can find our project history.

Step 3

Looking at our project, it can be overwhelming to consider things like how to upload fonts to Cricut or how to download fonts to Cricut. Where are the fonts? It can be a little confusing at first, when you want to know how to add fonts to Cricut, because it looks and acts like its own special (and sometimes hidden) library.

Click on the Text Icon on the left, to get started.

Step 4

Before we can edit text or experiment with our Cricut font choices, we'll need to add some text. With the Text Tool selected, click to begin, and type any sample text you would like. Any text here will do. Notice that this initial box is just for typing.

Then, Cricut Design Space renders our text for us.

Step 5

Now, with our text placed, make sure to click on it to select it. If the text isn't active, we won't see our text options at the top of the screen. Here's what it looks like when your text is selected.

Step 6

With your text selected, take a look at the upper part of the screen. Here, we can change the font itself, the font size, the letter spacing, the curve, and more.

Again, this will only be visible if your text is active.

Step 7

Click on the Font dropdown, highlighted below. This is where we could select a new Cricut font.

Step 8

Clicking on the Font dropdown gives us the following Fonts window.

Here, we can take a look at our available fonts. Most of the ones listed here are part of Cricut's font library. We can purchase additional fonts within Cricut Design Space too.

Step 9

However, your available fonts here rely on two sources: the Cricut font library and your System Fonts. The Cricut font library is native to Cricut Design Space, while your System Fonts are native to your computer.

So, if you want to know how to download fonts to Cricut Design Space or how to upload fonts to Cricut, keep this in mind. You have three options when it comes to your Cricut font library:

the default Cricut font selections, which come with your Cricut machine
premium Cricut font choices, which you can purchase individually or via Cricut Access
System Fonts, which give you the freedom to download fonts for Cricut in any style you'd like

If you look at your font selections, you can toggle between All, System, and Cricut fonts. You can also search for your font by name in the Search Fonts bar.

Let's turn our focus to System Fonts—how to download them, how to install them, and how to get them visible in Cricut Design Space.