Initials on iOS Made Easy

Integrate initials charter

(piano music) - [Narrator] Hey, everybody, it's Cheryl. I just wanted to do a quick screencast and show how easy it is to make monograms in Cricut Design Space. So, to start, I have a blank canvas open and I'm gonna put the link at the bottom of this video where you can find my favorite 30 free monogram fonts. So, I downloaded a few of my favorite and today I'm gonna use an interlocking monogram. That's what we're gonna make. I can show you how to make a circle, too. So, that's what we're gonna do and you can use that link at that bottom to download the fonts- they're free- to use for this. So, first of all, we are going to add a text box and our first initial. Now, monograms go your first initial, your last initial, and then your middle initial. So that's what we're doing first with C and then I'm gonna come up here and I'm gonna choose (keys click) my font. Gonna choose System 'cause this is mine. So, I'm using this Monogram kk sc font right here today. Okay, so, we have our pretty C and I also just go move that to 1.25 is kind of just my standard to get your sizing correct because the middle initial in a monogram is always larger. So, here we have our C which is... I'm gonna make it pretty, guys, 'cause it's all about being pretty. How about pink? Okay, we're gonna be pink today. So, there's my C and I'm just going to, while it's selected, I'm gonna duplicate it. And that's just because I am going to double-click that and make that my middle initial since my first and middle initial will be the same size. Now I'm gonna duplicate that one more time and I'm going to make that my last initial, which is S, and I'm gonna change the height on that to 1.75. It's just that half inch is a really good ratio. See here? And then I just move them together. Now, there's several different types, monograms you can do all different ways. So, there's ones that would be all equal spaced so let me align these really quick. I select all three, come up here, and I'm going to center vertically. So, that could be a monogram right there just like that. Or you can do what they call kissing, which is when these first and middle initials just barely touch the last initial. And again, I'm going to just center those. That's kissing, a kissing monogram. But if I'm gonna do an interlocking monogram, what that is is when the letters actually intertwine a bit. So, you can see how they're all interlocking like so. So, let me- oops. Select all three and I'm going to center vertically. And now, the most important step 'cause right now if you were to cut this, it would cut three individual letters. Here, I'll show you exactly...