Looking for new fonts? Be sure to check out my favorite place to purchase beautiful fonts at. Since Design Space frequently leaves extra space between script font letters, you may need to alter the spacing between letters. Repeat the same process of copying glyphs from Character Map UWP back into Design Space until you have all glyphs desired. You then want to Paste (Control+V) the character you copied from Character Map UWP into the correct spot. Unlike most other font managers, MainType runs. From here, you’ll want to navigate back to Cricut Design Space.īack on the Cricut Design Space project screen, click on your text to bring the original text box back. MainType provides immediate system-wide font synchronization, with no need to refresh font lists or reboot the computer after installing fonts. Then on the right side of the screen, click Copy. When you find the character or glyph that you want to include in your project click it once to put a box around it. Some fonts have literally hundreds of extra characters so you could be scrolling a long time. Once you’ve highlighted your preferred font on the left side of the screen, you’ll see ALL the characters that are included with the font. In my example photos, I’ve used the very popular Samantha Upright. Once you’ve installed Character Map UWP, scroll to the font you’re using on your Cricut Design Space project. Download and install the Character Map UWP If that doesn't suit you, our users have ranked more than 10 alternatives to MainType and eight of them are available for Mac so hopefully you can find a suitable replacement. The best Mac alternative is FontBase, which is free. I have found an easier way to view all characters within a font and it’s FREE!Ĭharacter Map UWP is a free app on the Microsoft Store that allows you to see all characters in a font bigger. MainType is not available for Mac but there are some alternatives that runs on macOS with similar functionality. Unfortunately with Character Map you cannot resize the box or view all of the characters in a larger format.

You can use Character Map to insert glyphs into Cricut Design Space. Your Windows computer natively includes a Character Map.

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