How to use font glyphs in Cricut Design Space on iPad

Have you been wondering how to use font glyphs in Cricut Design Space on iPad and iPhone? How everyone is getting all those adorable swooshes from their fonts on to Cricut Design Space from your iPhone? I’ve got you covered! This process is as easy as 123!!

What are font glyphs?

Font glyphs are individual characters, it could be a dingbat (fun little drawing) a punctuation mark or my personal favorite, one of those fancy swoopy script letters.

In the picture below of one of my favorite fonts Bohema Spirit because it has the BEST font glyphs. The letters at the top are encoded and are readily available when you download the font. However the ones in yellow are PUA encoded and only available when you follow these steps.

Don’t know how to even get fonts onto your iPad? Check out How to Download Fonts to your iPad and iPhone

What tools will we be using?

You will need a few tools to to get your glyphs into Cricut Design Space I wish it was a little simpler and it did used to be before the latest update. In other words, I am still glad that there even is a workaround being that I ONLY use my iPad and iPhone with my Cricut.

You will need Fontcloud which is a free online font manager. This font manager is going to help you access glyphs encoded in fonts that you can’t access on your device. You can also see a word written in all the fonts you own all at once! There’s no app for Fontcloud (yet anyway) but it’s easily viewable on your device through Safari or Google Chrome.

How to use font glyphs in Cricut Design Space on iPad Video

Step 1

Get your Fontcloud account and upload font/s you want to use in Cricut Design Space choose a font and tap on it. Creative Fabrica offers this tool free of charge, no strings attached.

Step 2

Copy the glyph by tapping on it once. Be aware, It does like to send you back to the top of the page after tapped, thats how you know it worked.

Step 3

Paste the font glyphs in Cricut Design Space in a text box. Make sure that you are using the same font as the one that you copied the glyph from. Each glyph is unique to its font.

It truly is as easy as 1..2..3..

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If you are a visual person like me watch the video above. It’s less than 5 minutes long and was only my third take. Because the first time I tried making the video my kids school called. The second time my husband called. And the third time, this time at the very end my daughter yelled NOO as she was entering my room for whatever reason. As a result, I stuck with this one.

If you need some project inspiration check out these Crafting Blanks! Another resource that may come in handy is these SVG Subscription Plans. The subscription plans include thousands of SVGs for a great price. A subscription is the best way to go if you do a ton of crafting. But if that isn’t your cup of tea, check out these Free Commercial Use SVGs. Or these Free Commercial Use Fonts to get the inspiration flowing.