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13 things to do with fonts besides cut them

August 24, 2021 By Cindy Eckhoff Leave a Comment

I freely admit it -- I'm a complete font junkie! Every time there's a new text style that comes into vogue, I have to add to my already enormous collection. If you own a Silhouette machine, you already know you can cut out words for things like vinyl … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Tips Tagged With: fonts, Text, words

Why you may not see all the parts on premium fonts (and how to find them)

June 25, 2021 By Cindy Eckhoff Leave a Comment

I freely admit it -- I'm a font junkie! I'm trying to do better, but on my last computer I had over 1200 fonts. There are just SO many fun ones!!! I was getting better, then font designers started having the ability to add multiple glyphs or … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Silhouette Design Store, Silhouette Studio Software, Tips Tagged With: download, fonts, glyphs, install, letters, premium, Text

Tuesday quick tip: font identification trick

June 15, 2021 By Cindy Eckhoff Leave a Comment

silhouette studio font identification trick

My son is currently living with us while he attends physical therapy school. This is the child who has a business selling Silhouette-made products. This blows my mind, as he's probably the last of my 4 that I thought would ever be doing that. But a … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Silhouette Studio Software, Tips Tagged With: fonts, Text, tuesday quick tip

Making layered letters from a plain font

May 10, 2021 By Cindy Eckhoff Leave a Comment

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It's SPRING!!! It took a really long time to arrive here in Utah, so we've been working on the outside of our home as much as possible now that it's here. We got new lights for beside our front door (yes, those are the old lights) and I realized how … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Designing, Silhouette Studio Software Tagged With: fonts, layered, letters, Text

7 tricks to make a multi-piece project more interesting

September 6, 2018 By Cindy Eckhoff Leave a Comment

I remember when I first started paper crafting. I would put together a card or scrapbook page and then look at it and think, “BORING!” What is it that makes a project look interesting and finished? It doesn't just happen. Some folks have a natural … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Designing, Tips Tagged With: alignment, balance, color, depth, diagonal, fonts, interesting, mix, paper, pattern, placement, size, texture, thirds, triangle, tricks

Dispelling Text Myths in Silhouette Studio: 30 misconceptions about words, letters and fonts (Part 6)

August 31, 2018 By Cindy Eckhoff Leave a Comment

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Here we are in our last post about misunderstanding folks have when working with wording in Silhouette Studio. If you need to start back at the beginning, you can find Part 1 here. Today's 5 myths cover some miscellaneous topics about working with a … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Silhouette Studio Software Tagged With: Compound Path, cursive, font, fonts, grouping, letters, myths, offset, print, spell, spellcheck, spellchecking, spelling, Text, weld, word, words

Dispelling Text Myths in Silhouette Studio: 30 Misconceptions about words, letters and fonts (part 3)

August 15, 2018 By Cindy Eckhoff Leave a Comment

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In our series about working with text in Silhouette, we’ve already busted 10 common myths. If you haven’t read those, then start here. The 5 myths we’re talking about today are 5 more about fonts. They deal with how fonts are organized and working … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Silhouette Studio Software Tagged With: character map, fancy letters, folder, font, font book, fonts, glyph, glyphs, library, Sketch, sketch font, Text, text style, words

Dispelling Text Myths in Silhouette Studio: 30 misconceptions about words, letters and fonts (Part 2)

August 13, 2018 By Cindy Eckhoff 2 Comments

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Today I'm continuing my series on things Silhouette users misunderstand about text in Silhouette Studio. If you didn't catch Part 1, you can find it here. In this lesson, we're going to go over some information about fonts: where to get them, what … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Silhouette Studio Software Tagged With: craft font, font, fonts, install, letters, premium font, silhouette design store, Text, words

Pattern fill pizzazz: 7 ways to put your own graphic into any shape (method #3)

April 23, 2018 By Cindy Eckhoff Leave a Comment

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So far in this series on adding your own pattern fill to a shape, I've shown you 2 ways to save raster images into your regular library folders and use them from there. You'll want to make sure you've practiced those, because I'm going to refer to … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Designing, Silhouette Studio Software Tagged With: Fill, fill pattern, folder, font organization, fonts, import, library, library organization, pattern, pattern organization, patterns, sub-folder, subfolder

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