NOTE: The following article may get a little sketchy in places. Sorry/Not-sorry.

Sketching Fonts with Pens


Silhouette cutting machines can use pens with the use of a Pen Holder to draw designs, as opposed to cutting with a blade.


The action of sketching is the same as the action of cutting, so whatever you see on your screen is how the Silhouette machine will draw your design. This leaves you with three options for how to handle font designs in Silhouette Studio when you want to use a pen to draw letters:


  1. Sketch the font as-is. This just means you're drawing the 'hollow' letters.
     
  2. Apply Sketch Effects to your font.

  3. Use a special Sketch Font (exclusively from the Silhouette Design Store).
    NOTE: Special Sketch Fonts, exclusively intended for use with Silhouette Studio, are designed to look more like sketch lines, giving it a 'drawn' or 'handwritten' feel. Regular fonts cannot be automatically converted to this style. These fonts are not true single lines. The letters are still drawing a letter outline; the font is just designed to be very very thin.ABOVE: 800% zoomed-in view of dot from "i" in a Sketch Font