You’ve been hearing a lot about font bundles here lately, because that is what I am getting the most questions about. I’m pretty particular about what I consider to be “crafter friendly,” which is why I don’t recommend all of the bundles that come along. I was privileged to work a little with type designer Emily Spadoni of Sweet Type early on as she and the craft community discovered each other, and it has been a blast watching her soar in popularity!
Emily’s approach is to break her fonts down into “sub-fonts” so that all you need is the keys on your keyboard to get to all the goods. For instance, her beautiful font, Secret Garden, is actually a set of 5 font files. Getting a custom look is as simple as choosing a different font for the first (secret garden Alt Left) and last letter (secret garden Alt Right) and one or more letters in between (secret garden Alt 1 or Alt 2). Here’s a screen shot of what that looks like in Silhouette Studio. In Cricut Design Space you will need separate text blocks for each font.
Right now there’s a Sweet Type bundle deal going on over at revolge with 12 text fonts, 2 floral dingbat fonts and lots and lots of easy to access swirly extras. Commercial rights are included so you can use these fonts on items you sell.
If you just want to try out some of these, as well as others from Sweet Type (for personal use and without the extras), check out Emily’s section on Dafont.com
Disclosure: The above post contains affiliate links. I did receive this bundle for free, but I was already a satisfied customer, having purchased a number of Sweet Type fonts in the past.
There’s still time for this font bundle with oodles of bonus holiday graphics, too.
These are beautiful… thanks for the information! I will be purchasing today 🙂
So excited about this Sweet Font Bundle (just purchased)! How do I know you got credit for the sale, Kay? You just amaze me and I am so appreciative of your info. Thank You, again!
If you used my link I got credit, if not, no worries. I appreciate your comment!
Awesome. Finally purchased and through your link. Thanks so much. I have a question. I am on a Mac and I have about 500 fonts, but I added them when I didn’t know what I was doing. I need to weed them out. Is there a way to keep the original ones that came on my Mac and if so how would I find them? Or is it just better to create files in my Font Book and work from those? I know there are a ton that are not crafter friendly for my Silhouette Cameo. Thanks. Love your Youtube Tutorials and blog.
Thank you for this sweet font deal. Just came home from Terri Johnson’s All Things Silhouette Conference and am ready to play!
Hi Kay, I just purchased the $1.00 font Cimochi from the Hungry JPeg site because he stated that it would work with Word. I cannot get it to work in my MS Word start 2010 (but Samantha will) because the bottom part of the letters get cut off. I have tried changing the line spacing and adjusting the paragraph spacing but nothing is working. I did email them and Stuart responded that Word (even tho his site did say it would) does not. I do have a Silhouette cameo but was hoping to be able to use it in a word document type setting. Any suggestions? I do have inkscape on my computer but not really educated in how to use it.
Hi Sue. I don’t have that font, and I am not a regular user of Word so I’m not going to be much help. I would have recommended adjusting the spacing but since that did not work you might want to contact the font designer and see if they have any remedy for you.