Where To Find Loads Of Free Fonts - Even Ones With Glyphs & Commercial Use Licenses! An Index When you ask on any cricut list where to find free fonts, the first response, often the only response, will be Dafont. And Dafont IS an incredible resource! But before long, you will come across a font on Dafont, and wonder why you can't find all the pretty swirls and extras in the sample. That's because the vast majority of free fonts on dafont are demo versions. This is still incredible - SO many great free fonts, and often demo version is enough. But does that mean you need to purchase fonts, to get all of those swirls and extras? No. You certainly can, if there is one you love in particular. But there are SO SO SO very many free premium (with commercial use license included) fonts, loaded with glyphs, that it would be impossible to download and install them all. And that's before we even get to all of the $1 deals! Reminder - I'm an affiliate for a number of sites, and it's possible that if you click on a link from this blog and then make a purchase, that I may benefit in some small way from that purchase. This in NO WAY changes the price you pay. ============================================ Where To Find Free Fonts By Type & Style ============================================ Stencil fonts, wavy fonts, fancy fonts, farmhouse fonts, Halloween fonts, Monograms, fonts with hearts, fonts that work with the pens... so many options. What's The Font For... Where to find free Disney, Harry Potter, Star Wars, and other popular themed, fonts Free Stencil Fonts These are the fonts you typically want when cutting text from paper. The pieces will be connected, so no need to save the center of the e, for example Free Ligature Fonts & How To Use Them Free Fonts With Hearts How to Create Wavy Text FOR FREE No Access subscription required How to make Stacked, or Mirror Text In Design Space Free Monogram Fonts & How To Create Your Own Split Monograms How to Make Your Own, & Where To Find The Free Ones Free Fonts For Rae Dunn Inspired Projects Free Farmhouse Style Fonts Free Dingbat Fonts [Dingbats work just like svgs!] Tried & True Cutting Fonts This is an old post - but these are still some of my tried and true favorites Free Halloween Fonts ================= Fancy Fonts Glyphs, Tails & Extras ================ Fonts With Easy Glyphs No Character Map Needed Use Keys like { } and ( ) To add the extras Find the free fonts, and cheat sheets Samantha Font Alternatives - Free Fonts With Lots Of Swirls & Glyphs [Character Map Required] Free fonts with lots of natural swirls & extras No Character map needed ============== Free Fonts That Work With The Draw Or PEN Feature in Cricut ============== Free Writing [PEN] Fonts More than 100 free fonts tested by me, sorted by pen size, that work with the pens, without bubbling, in cricut TRUE Single Line Fonts Often free fonts that work with the pens are not truly single line, but rather, fonts that are thin enough to "collapse on themselves" when writing. This is a list of TRUE single line fonts FUN DRAWING FONTS These fonts work with the pens in cricut, but are not traditional writing fonts They are fun fonts, great for posters Hairline VS Single Line Options when choosing fonts that work with the pens in cricut ================= An Index Of Font Tips https://fieldsofhether.blogspot.com/2021/06/tips-tricks-for-using-fonts-in-cricut.html ======================== Ode To Typography By Paul Neruda Entangled Gutenberg: the house with spiders, in darkness, Suddenly, a letter of gold enters through the window. Thus printing was born… Letters, long, severe, vertical, made of pure line, erect like a ship’s mast in the middle of the page’s sea of confusion and turbulence; algebraic Bodoni, upright letters, trim as whippets subjected to the white rectangle of geometry; Elzevirian vowels stamped in the minute steel of the printshop by the water, in Flanders, in the channeled North ciphers of the anchor; characters of Aldus, firm as the marine stature of Venice, in whose mother waters, like a leaning sail, navigates the cursive curving the alphabet: the air of the oceanic discoverers slanted forever, the profile of writing. From medieval hands to your eye advanced this N, this double 8 this J, this r of rey and rocio. There they were wrought, much as teeth, nails, metallic hammers of language: they beat each letter, erected it, a small black statue on the whiteness, a petal or a starry foot of thought taking the form of a mighty river, finding its way to the sea of nations with the entire alphabet illuminating the estuary. The paper’s eyes, eyes which looked at men seeking their gifts, their history, their loves; extending the accumulated treasure; suddenly spreading the slowness of wisdom on the table like a deck of cards. All the secret humus of the ages, song, memory, revolt, blind parable, suddenly were fecundity, granary, letters, letters that traveled and kindled, letters that sailed and conquered, letters that awakened and climbed, letters dove-shaped that flew, letters scarlet on the snow, punctuation, roads, building of letters. Yet, when writing displays its rose gardens and the letter its essential cultivation, when you read the old and the new words, the truths and the explorations, I beg a thought for the one who sets type, for the linotypist with his lamp like a pilot over the waves of language ordering winds and foam, shadow and stars in the book: man and steel once more united against the nocturnal wing of mystery, sailing, researching ,composing. Typography, let me celebrate you in the purity of your pure profiles, in the vessel of the letter O, in the flesh flower vase of the Y, in the Q of Quevedo, (how can my poetry pass before that letter and not feel the ancient shiver of the dying sage?) in the lily multi multiplied of the V of victory, in the E escalated to climb to heaven, in the Z with its thunderbolt face, in the near-orange P. Love, I love the letters of your hair, the U of your look, the S of your figure. My love, your hair surrounds me as jungle or dictionary with its profused red language. In everything, in the wake of the worm, one reads, in the rose, one reads, the roots are filled with letters twisted by the dampness of the forest and in the heavens of Isla Negra, in the night, I read, read in the coast’s cold firmament, intense, diaphanous with beauty, unfurled, with capital and lower case stars, and exclamation points of frozen diamonds. Yet the letter was not beauty alone, but life, peace for the soldier; it went down to the solitudes of the mine, and the miner read the hard and clandestine flyer, hid it in the folds of the secret heart and above, on earth he became another and another was his word Typography, I am only a poet and you are the flowery play of reason, the movement of the chess bishops of intelligence You rest neither at night nor in winter, you circulate in the veins of our anatomy and if you do sleep or fly away during the night or strike or fatigue or breakage of linotype, you descend anew to the book or newspaper like a cloud or birds to their nest. You return to the system, to the inevitable order of intelligence. Letters! continue to fall like precise rain along my way. Letters of all that lives and dies, letters of light, off moon, of silence of water, I love you, and in you I gather not only thought and combat, but your dress, senses and sounds: A of glorious avena, T of trigo and torre and M like your name of manzana. Ode to Typography —A Typographic Poem Paul Neruda —1964