Once you type your text, with the text box selected, look for the "offset" button at the top of the screen.
DS is still not reading font kerning - so the top text is spaced all weird. [Update - Design Space now has a filter for what they call "kerned fonts". Those fonts will be spaced properly, for the most part.] The bottom text, "Testing Upload", is text I typed into fontlab pad and uploaded as an svg. Offset still worked on uploaded text.
The Font I used is Amastery. It's not free, it was just convenient for me to test with this morning.
Offset works on images too! This is such great news for anyone who makes stickers, or any print then cut project. Now you can simply select your project, create an offset, and flatten your images and text to the offset. Once flattened, print your image, then put it in your cricut machine and it will cut just the offset, not each letter and individual piece.
Here's a project where this new feature will come in handy!
For this, which I made years ago, I used a print then cut hack that no longer exists. NOW, with offset available, you can simply create the offset , slice that "shadow" layer from the last name, and then delete the offset shadow, leaving an empty space for the first names text to fit in. I'll update the tutorial soon - here's the original:
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