This will make sure no matter what size pen you're using in the end, that your paths are going to touch and it's going to look seamless. At the bottom, you are going to make sure that both of the paths connect. Now I'm just going to zoom in a bit, and the great thing about auto-smooth nodes is that as you move each node, all the other nodes around it adjust so that there's always a perfectly smooth line, which makes it really easy for following these fonts, because you don't have to be perfect. So you can still select them, they just automatically won't change. The end nodes will never turn into auto-smooth nodes, but that's OK they don't need to be. I'm actually going to leave this node up here as a corner, because I want the pen to make a sharp movement there. And then they turn from squares to round. And then I'm going to click this button up at the top which is "Make Selected Nodes Auto-Smooth". So I'm going to start selecting these nodes by just clicking and dragging around them. I'm going to turn these nodes into auto-smooth nodes, which will make the letter really nice and curved. Now you can either double click on the paths or click on the "Edit Paths by Nodes" button on the left side, so we can see all of the nodes that we just drew. I'm going to click on Combine and that just puts both of these paths on the same editable layer. Go to the path menu, and go down to where it says "Combine" which is the shortcut ctrl+k. Now, using my normal selector tool, I'm going to select both the strokes that I just drew. I'm gonna start out about the same height as the first one starts, follow it down and come and have it connect at the bottom, here. And now I'm going to draw the second stroke. When you reach the end of your letter, press the enter key on the keyboard to turn it into a curve. And then instead of going down the center of this part, since I am going to use two strokes in this thick part, I'm just going to go down the side of it. When using the Bezier Curves tool, you can click and drag in order to create a curve as you're going along, but we don't need to do that, because I'm going to show you a really cool, easy trick to use, in order to get perfect curves every time. Clicking in the center of this outline of the letters, so that we follow what a pen stroke would follow, I'm just going to start by clicking in straight lines and following the curve around. The tool we are going to be using is the "Bezier Curves" tool, located over here on the left side of the screen. Since this font has thin areas and thick areas, I'm going to use one single pen stroke through the thin areas, and then a second pen stroke through the thick areas. We are going to use this font as a guideline to create our own writing strokes and pen strokes. These fonts, since they do not bound an area, cannot be read by most word processing programs, you would just see nothing there, there would be no information about where to fill in the color, so that's why you really can't find writing style fonts available for download. Cricut has created a few writing style fonts for use in Design Space, which are single stroke fonts that write more similar to how a person holding a pen would write. This is why Cricut Design Space just can't write any font as a writing style font, because this is the only information that Design Space has about the font. This outline is what Cricut Design Space and other word processing systems read, and that is the path that the Cricut will follow. Word processing programs, like Microsoft Word, read the outline at whatever size it is, and fill it in with the appropriate text color. So that fonts can be sized correctly at many different sizes, they are vectors. This illustrates why the Cricut software will write "bubble" letters with system fonts, which everyone hates. This shows us the actual vectors that are involved in the program. Then you click on the "View" menu, go down to the "Display Mode" menu, and click on "Outline". The first thing that you need to do, then, is click on the "Path" menu and then click on "Object to Path" which is the shortcut shift+ctrl+c. When you have an actual project in mind you should size it correctly for whichever project you're using, but since I'm just practicing today, I'm just going to make it a bit bigger so it's easier to see. To start, use the text adding feature to type the text that you want to have written and then choose your font. To do this you will need to use a vector editing program, I'm using Inkscape. In this video I'm going to show how to make any font into a "writing style" font for use in Cricut Design Space and with the writing feature of the Cricut Explore models.
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