#Silhouette font glyphs how to

You would need to check if any of the other editions can do this with the text panel. I also have the business edition so I am not sure if this is only available with this edition. I am sure there is other ways of getting to the glyph menu but for me this is easier and I am not searching my computer for the character map.

You can access font glyphs right in Silhouette Studios Text tool if you have Silhouette Studio Designer Edition or higher. It helps if you color the letters and make your comment or text bigger to get a good feel of how it will look when your done. Font glyphs are those pretty swirls, connectors, or font tails you see on certain fonts.

#Silhouette font glyphs how to

After you pick your first letter I just double click on it and it comes up on my design area, then I can add the next letter that I want if for some reason I don't like that choice you just use the backspace and try a different one. A quick video tutorial on how to use OFT font glyphs, access them and import into Silhouette Studio software.for more tutorials and designs please check out. The one nice thing with using this is the zoom slider at the bottom of the panel which helps seeing what you might like to use and another thing I like is some fonts don't offer any glyphs and when that happens you can see it at a glance that there is no fancy options so you can go to the next.

Click the G and this will have your fonts in a drop down menu, select the one you want to work with it will then show you all of the letters and or characters. The Silhouette font creator is a new tool accessible to users who have both updated to Silhouette Studio V4.2 and who also have Business Edition. After you open the program you would open the 'text style' panel, then the tabs offer the A for text style, G for your Glyphs or the ABC for spelling. Silhouette Studio V4.2 now lets you turn your own handwriting into a font. You can access them thru the Silhouette Studio. There is another way to get to the glyph characters.