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Tutorial: How to Make Cut Files with Dingbat Fonts

A few days ago I downloaded The Best Sellers Font Bundle Vol IV by Font Bundles and it had several fonts with dingbats in it. (If you don’t know: A dingbat is a symbol or image included with a font. Also, some fonts are made entirely of dingbats.) Personally, I love dingbats! Why? You can use …

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Why Font Bundles is Awesome for Silhouette or Cricut Business Owners

Update: The Craft Bundle shared in this post has expired. However, there are always tons of other bundles at Font Bundles to use in your Silhouette Cameo or Cricut small business. Be sure to watch for new free fonts and other freebies I’ve found online on the Cutting for Business Facebook page. Anyone that visits the Cutting for …

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Introducing: Creative Fabrica for Fonts

I’m a font-a-holic and a font snob who appreciates a well constructed font – and am always on the hunt for more fonts. Today, I’m thrilled to have Roemie Hillenaar back on the blog to tell you about Little Big Crafter’s latest launch Creative Fabrica. You can read Roemie’s first post on Little Big Crafter here. …

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Introducing Little Big Crafter – Font and Cut File Bundles

Retired Content: This article has been retired as Little Big Crafter is no longer in business. Their website now redirects to Creative Fabrica. If you follow Cutting for Business on Facebook, you’ll know that I am obsessed with in love with fonts! I share both free and paid font deals and am always looking to …

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Create Your Own Font in 10 Minutes – for Free!

Update: MyScriptFont is now called calligraphr.com. With the name change came more features, too! We are wrapping up our basic discussions of fonts with a resource that lets you create your own font for free, in only about 10 minutes! There are actually a number of sites that will allow you to do this, but MyScriptFont seems …

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How to Use OpenType Fonts in Silhouette Studio or Cricut Design Space

Update: This is the Windows based tutorial. To use OpenType Fonts in Mac follow these instructions. Mac users, check the last paragraph of this article to find out how to get the popular Samantha font for cheap! Today, let’s look at how to access some of the additional features of OpenType fonts in Silhouette Studio or …

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Fonts: OTF versus TTF – What is the difference?

Are you having fun talking fonts this week? I hope so! If you’ve missed any of the posts about fonts catch up with How to Install Fonts and Organizing and Managing Your Fonts. Today we are looking at the difference between .ttf and .otf fonts. You can use either .ttf or .otf fonts in Silhouette Studio …

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Organizing Fonts with NexusFont

Let’s continue on with our discussion on fonts today. Yesterday I gave you resources for installing fonts onto your computer. As you collect more fonts, it’ll become tedious to click through each one to find a font that works well in your project. The three easiest ways I’ve found are using Fontbook (Mac users), Wordmark.it, …

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