Nexus Font is a similar program available for the PC that will allow you to see your text in the font you select before you copy and paste. I can select the individual letters and copy and paste them into Silhouette Studio. It’s great because I can access all my fonts and increase the size of the display of the group of fonts on the left and the individual characters on the right.
Ultra Character Map is a great program available for the Mac that has more features than Font Book.
Click on the Glyphs tab in the Text Style box.Highlight the letter you wish to change.Start with a word already in the workspace.You can continue in this way until you have all the special characters added. Click on the letter and it will be inserted in your text box. Scroll down in the Glyphs box and locate the letter you wish to use. Make sure that the font you want to use is selected.Click on the Text Style box on the right side of the screen.Click on the Text tool and then click in the design space to open a text box.This will give you quick easy access to these characters in the Glyphs tab of the Text Style Box.
I will tell you that the easiest way to access these characters is to upgrade the Basic Silhouette Studio to at least Designer Edition. But how do you access them in Silhouette Studio? Using Silhouette Studio Designer Edition (or DE+ or Business Edition)
glyphs) that make our text look so great. The following supply list contains affiliate links.We all love those “special” characters (a.k.a. Watch the Silhouette Studio tutorial below, and learn how easy it is to make layered stencils for card making and other projects: I used a few of the leaves from the leaf layer of the stencil to embellish around the sentiment on this card. One of the big bonuses of cutting your own stencils is that you sometimes end up with a bunch of super pretty die cuts that you can use as embellishments for projects.
A registration mark or marks are the key, and they allow you to perfectly line up each layer to create stenciled designs that can be as simple or complex as your heart desires.Īfter we create our layered stencil, we’ll use it to make the pretty, stenciled background for the card above. It’s just as easy to created a stencil with 10 layers as it is to create one with 2 layers. I love making stencils with my Silhouette Cameo, and in the video below I’ll show you how easy it is to design layered stencils from a single layer cut file in Silhouette Studio 4.1.