HOW TO ACCESS FLOURISHES & SPECIAL CHARACTERS IN CRICUT DESIGN SPACE USING CHARACTER MAP UWP

hey everyone welcome back to my channel today I want to share how to get these really pretty letters with your fonts when I first started with my Cricut machine I always saw these and wondered how people got them so today I just wanted to share how you do this and the font that I'm using is Samantha upright so I'm going to show you what it looks like when you type this in to design space so I'm just gonna type it in and as you can see it shows up like this it doesn't automatically come up with these letters so that's why you have to use some type of program to get these letters here so I have a Windows computer so I'll be showing you how to do this with a Windows but if you have a Mac computer then you can use a program called font lab and you'll just Google that and then download that onto your computer and that'll be pretty similar to what I'm using here so if you have a Mac that is where what you will need to download but on my windows I want to show you that there is something called character map and you might have already heard of this but this just automatically comes on your desktop on your computer so if I select this then I'll show you what it looks like it pops up on the screen and it is so tiny so you can see here it is so difficult to see these letters and I do not like using this at all so what I like to do is I like to use character map UWP and this is something that you download it's free and it shows up so much bigger and I just love using this and there's also a few other programs that you can use besides character map you can use main type is what it's called you can also use babel map and i think there might be a couple others I think maybe Nexus font so there's a few other things that you can use but this is the one that I have always used and I really like it so what you'll do is you'll just google this and then you hit get and you hit open Microsoft store and I've already installed this on my computer but I'll just show you what the screen looks like when it pops up so right here you'll just hit install and it'll just go get installed onto your computer so I'm going to show you how I use this and also I want to show you what font I'm using it is the Samantha font and I bought this off of the mighty deals website and it was $17 and after you buy this you can use this as commercial use as well so whatever you're making to sell you can use this on whatever you're selling and I just decided to buy this font because it has so many different characters and so many pretty different pretty letters so I just really love it but you can go to dafont.com and you can see here there's a ton of free ones too most of these are for personal use and you can even see I thought this one looks kind of similar to the Samantha font but I'll be showing you just how I use the Samantha font because there's just so many different characters and fun things that you can do with it so I am going to delete this and then I will show you with this here how I switch these letters so I'm going to type in character map and I'm going to go to the one that I had downloaded which is this one here okay and this is what it looks like so you can see all of your fonts that are in your computer and I'm going to scroll down to the Samantha font that I'm using so I'm going to select that and then you can see on the top here it shows that this is your font and here is all of the different characters that you can use and this font has just a ton of different ones in so many pretty letters I just love this font but there's a ton in here and you can see it'll show up on the side so I'm going to go back to my thankful and I'm going to show you how I do this the first thing I want to change is my T so I'm going to go back to my character map and I'm going to search for a small T and it's really nice because it's all in Medical order so it makes it a lot easier to find what you're looking for just makes it quicker so here's all of the teas and I think I'm going to use this tea so you just select that and you can see it pop up over here and you can see it's so much bigger than that the character map that comes with your computer and then what you'll do is you'll hit copy and then you'll go back into cricut design space and then the next thing I do is double click on my thankful and then I am going to highlight just the team and then I'm going to right click and hit paste and it comes up it looks like a little square but you can see it automatically puts in that tea there so it's really actually pretty easy so I'm also going to change the H so I'm going to go back and look for an H and this is the H that I want to use so I'll select that and help hit copy again and then I'm just gonna double click or not double click I'm gonna highlight my H and copy and paste it and there it shows up right there and then I also want to do I'm trying to remember which ones I did I think I did the F ok so I'm going to go back and look for an F and I'm trying to remember which one I did I think I did this one so I'm going to select that and I'll copy it and then I'll just do the same thing for the F and then I'm gonna go in and switch to a different L you so I'm going to select that one I'll hit copy and then one more time I'll just paste it okay so I have all of my letters so now I just want to connect all of these together so I'm going to do this how you would normally do it you'll just hit on group and then just connect all of these together you and here's how it looks with the all together it's really fun and you can just be so creative with this and I feel like this opens up so many options when you know how to use the character map if you have any questions on this leave a comment below and I will try to get back to you give this video a thumbs up if it was helpful and and subscribe if you're new to my channel I post one video a week and it is free and I hope everybody has a great week [Music]

Channel: Kayla's Cricut Creations

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Keywords: character map cricut, character map windows 10, character map for mac, how to access font swashes, how to access font glyphs, swashes font, babel map samantha font, babelmap for samantha font, samantha font in cricut design space, samantha font on mac, samantha font cricut, add flourish to font, how to add flourishes to fonts in cricut design space, cricut font tutorial, glyphs, cricut design space tutorials for beginners, character map

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Length: 7min 49sec (469 seconds)

Published: Wed Apr 10 2019