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I’m very curious about the fonts available in Cuttle. Are these all free fonts, or did some need to be licensed? Is it possible to use professional fonts which are on your local machine (without exporting as outlines)? How much adjustment needed to be done to make them appropriate for laser cutting etc? Many fonts which make sense for screen or printing need a lot of detail work to make sense for CAD work.

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The free fonts in Cuttle are mostly from Google Fonts and other freely licensed fonts.

With a Pro account you can upload your own font files.

You may be interested in Cuttle’s Connected Text feature. This will automatically connect dots on i’s, etc so you can cut out text in one piece. There’s also an option to “thicken” text so it’s not as delicate.

You can try a live demo here: https://cuttle.xyz/@cuttle/Connected-Text-29M9IXUSr5yr

That page also describes the algorithm we use to make this work with any font.

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