Check out our tutorials for “Using Glyphs in Silhouette Studio®” for more information on that Designer Edition and higher feature.
You can find special characters for your installed fonts and easily add them here. Your text stays editable when using this option.īack in the Text Style panel, those with Designer Edition or higher have the tab for Glyphs. Choose the Cut Edge option. That’s an autoweld that cuts around the outside edge of your letters and ignores overlapped areas. The first is to use the Weld function, but keep in mind that using this option causes the text to loose its text properties, like the font name, the font size, and the ability to change what it says.
To keep overlapped letters from cutting into each other, you have two choices. Saving a copy of your text off to the side before making any of these kinds of changes will keep your original text intact. The ability to edit text as text ends as soon as you ungroup it, use any Modify tools on it (like welding), or if you convert it to a path.
If you want to force your text into italics, users that have Silhouette Studio® Designer Edition and higher can go to the Transform panel and use the Sheer tab. If you want to create a faux bold, you can use your Offset Tool. Most fonts do not have these options and will be grayed out, but if you have a font that you know has extra characters available, check here with this drop-down arrow. With most fonts, you won’t see a difference, so we recommend leaving it on.īold, Italic, Underline, and other options will be available depending on the particular font. Kerning adjusts the spacing between letters in your font so they look and fit better together. Kerning is on by default, and you can turn it off in this panel. There are two more parts of the Text Style panel we should mention. You can find out more about text to path with our tutorial on “How to Curve Text.” Keep in mind this affects the spacing for the entire text box, even if you have just a few letters highlighted.Ĭharacter spacing is really helpful for certain script fonts that may not overlap as you expect, or when working with text on a path. Line Spacing adjusts the spacing between the lines.Ĭharacter Spacing adjusts the spacing between letters. To get each letter on its own line, drag the slider to move those letters down.Ĭhange your justification with these options in the Text Style panel or in the Quick-access Toolbar drop-down menu. Choosing the vertical option will rotate it so it types down the side. Let’s say you want to make a welcome sign and you want your text to type vertically. It will first break between words, but as you continue to shrink that available space, it will move individual letters down to the next line. When in the Text Editing mode with the green box and flashing cursor, you can use this slider bar on the right to create line breaks in your text. If you want to change just a few characters within the text box, you’ll need to highlight those while you are in the Text Editing mode. To enter the Text Editing mode, double-click the text. You can change text properties when text is highlighted in Text Editing mode or when the text is selected as an object. Open the Text Style panel or use the Quick-access Toolbar to choose from any font that is installed on your computer.Īdjusting the size is as simple as choosing a preset or typing the desired size into the input box. Okay once you've done that, open Studio and type out your word - this could be a team name or you child's name or your city.whatever! I just typed my text in the default text.As you may have learned in our tutorial for “Basic Design and Text Tools in Silhouette Studio®,” creating text is as simple as choosing the Text tool on the left, placing a cursor on the page, and typing the text. The next time you open up Silhouette Studio, it will be in your font list. Just like with any new font you want to open in Silhouette Studio, first you need to download and install Trademark onto your computer. Then come on back because this is too cool!
If you need an in-depth refresher check out how to 1) download and install new fonts into Silhouette Studio and 2) access hidden font characters on MAC here and PC here. I went into a lot of detail on how to use specially-coded fonts with glyphs and extra on either PC or MAC previously, so I'm not going to bog this tutorial down with all the nitty gritty. Now let's talk about my fav among the favorites.Trademark! This font, which I'm calling a 'baseball style font' is one of those that includes a whole bunch of glyphs and extra characters AND it's specially coded so they're all accessible in Silhouette Studio. I'll show you exactly how to use it in a second.įirst, though, here's a quick look at some of my favorites goodies in this month's $29īundle.you know the drill.all the fonts are Sil friendly, all theįonts include commercial licenses, and all the fonts are just too fab