![]() ![]() Debi is the designer of the fabulous Cantoni font!īe sure to thank these designers for mapping their fonts and tell them that CleverSomeday sent you. Update: Fonts by Debi Sementelli are also fully mapped. Here’s a freebie of theirs you can try out: Gist Upright ![]() (They also designed Thirsty Script but as far as I know it is not fully mapped). So far the only other fonts I have found that are fully mapped are from Yellow Design Studio. You may know them from the beautiful Melany Lane font. UPDATE: Gioviale by Laura Worthington is on sale right now at Mighty Deals.įunkydori by Laura Worthington is also on sale right now at Mighty Deals. When you are done, convert text to path (Path>Object to Path) and then save as SVG for import into SSDE or as DXF for import into SS basic edition. So you would use Font Book Repertoire view and hover over the character you want to determine the Unicode value, then type it into Inkscape. In Inkscape you can enter Unicode values into a text cox directly by typing Cntr-U first then the code. If you run MacOS 10.9, I’ve just discovered a new free solution.Īnother Mac option is Inkscape. ![]() My research has led me to believe that the best solution for MacOS 10.8 (or 10.9 with Silh Studio basic) is a $9.95 app called Ultra Character Map, but since it only runs on Mac OS 10.8 or better, I haven’t been able to test it myself yet. The method Laura recommends does work with Silhouette Studio but, like mine referenced above, is also quite contorted. On the Mac side, some of my earlier techniques are no longer working because the necessary web app has been discontinued. Written tutorial from Paper Moon Snippets here. Update: For those of you having trouble seeing the characters in Windows Character Map, the free utility Nexus Font also has a Character Map that makes viewing easier. 39K views 6 years ago Silhouette Studio Software Tutorials. Desktop font purchased, OTF version installed Fonts coded for Character Map (or fully mapped to Unicode) Any Windows version of Silhouette Studio (even V2 standard, contrary to what I say in the video) The prerequisites (shown and discussed at the beginning and end of the video) should be: Update: I already made this video twice, but I keep finding mistakes and things I should have added as I explore this topic more and answer your questions. I took this a step further with a video on how to use her fonts in Silhouette Studio for Windows. Her information on accessing all the special characters in her fonts with Windows is here. Laura Worthington is not only one of our favorite type designers as diecutters, but she has taken the lead on this. There’s an exciting development in the type design world and that is that a few designers are starting to fully map their OTF fonts to Unicode so that they are more accessible to those without Adobe Illustrator, Corel Draw, and expensive design software that has been required in the past. Samantha by Laura Worthington on sale right now at Mighty Deals! For more up to date info on this topic click here ![]()
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