hey guys and welcome back to my channel i
i am
i am so
so very very excited to be sharing this
this wonderful news with you that you've already
already heard about i'm sure but
but i'm going to explain to you exactly what
what it is and what am i talking about i'm
i'm talking about kerning
kerning and what is kerning well i'm going
going to show you exactly what it is in
in Cricut design space it's coming in the
the next update you may have it already if
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each and every week so do you know what kerning
kerning is let's
let's take a look kearney is actually here
here to find when you get the update you'll
you'll have this great little pop-up kerned
kerned fonts it's saying space manners and
and why does it matter because
because kerning is the space between your
your letters when
when you're typing text that you want to cut
cut
cut print
print whatever the case may be and as we know
know
know in
in Cricut design space if we have a beautiful
beautiful scripty font does
does it kern or join altogether automatically
automatically no
no it does not well actually now it does exactly
exactly that and
and let's take a look jumping into Cricut
Cricut design space i've
i've got a blank canvas and i'm just going
going to go to the left hand side and click
click
click on
on text so let's type some
some text kerning is
is now in
is now in Cricut
and i'm going to resize this i'm also going
going to align it to the center but
but i'm going to just resize it to 11.5 inches
inches or around 30 centimeters just
just so we can see it all on one screen and
and also on the mat when we go to cut
cut so that you can see a couple of really
really
really cool
cool tips and tricks so the first thing they
they want to do is we want to change this
this font
this font to
to a really nice script font so i'm going
going to go up to font and i'm going to click
click
click on
on the down arrow and then what i'm going
going to see is
is by default only current fonts are showing
showing so if i want to see other fonts that
that
that don't
don't kern automatically i can uncheck that
that box and that will change the results
results that i want but
but i'm going to leave it checked and then
then i'm just going to call that as well you've
you've got a few options here we've got all
all fonts so this includes everything that
that i've downloaded or have installed automatically
automatically on my device or
or system which are specifically those fonts
fonts
fonts that
that are downloaded and available on the specific
specific device or
or i've got my cricut fonts so i'm going to
to go with cricut font and
and i'm just going to have a look down the
the page at all these lovely fonts and
and i really love this one this alyssa stencil
stencil script it's really beautiful and
and it's super cute i should also call out
out that on the top right hand side here we
we also have some other filters so these have
have always been there so if you want to see
see a multi-layer single
single layer a font with a writing style so
so that you can print
print you can also choose these options on
on the right as well so i'm going to choose
choose this beautiful alisa stencil script
script
script and
and look what happens and i'm going to zoom
zoom in a little bit more so
so we can see it it is all connected
connected as we would expect it to see so
so previously there would have been gaps between
between
between every
every single letter now a
a couple of things to keep in mind of course
course with script fonts in the past they
they are not welded together okay so what
what i'm going to do is i'm going to zoom
zoom in so you can see exactly what
what i'm talking about and i'm also going
going to change the color so it'll be a little
little bit easier
easier to see choose this lovely green but
but what we can see is here where the letters
letters are joined there
there are cut lines so in the past when we've
we've connected these together we
we would go down to the bottom right and we
we would click weld
weld and then we can see those cut lines have
have now disappeared and
and this is all going to cut as one beautiful
beautiful
beautiful smooth
smooth cut and that's exactly what we want
want to happen so you can do that or
or now with these particular fonts that have
have this automatic kerning we
we can see the cut lines are back i've clicked
clicked undo what
what i'm going to do now is i'm actually going
going to go up and i'm going to click make
make it and i want you to see what happens
happens when it goes through
through to the mat now i'm going to zoom in
in
in so
so you can see this a little bit better look
look what's happened it's automatically welded
welded because it was kerning it's automatically
automatically decided hey
hey i want to cut this in one beautiful smooth
smooth
smooth cut
cut and not have all those little cutouts
cutouts and it's done
done all the heavy lifting for me so i hope
hope that makes sense i hope you got something
something out of that if
if you have any questions at all as always
always
always please
please ask me in the comments and i'll get
get back to you as
as soon as i can but i think this is just
just a wonderful feature it's
it's something that we have been wanting for
for an incredibly long time and
and now it is here again
again you saw me use the filters where the
the default was kerning font on if
if you can't find the font that you're looking
looking for turn the filter off and
and make sure you're seeing all of the different
different results but again if you like this
this feature give
give me a thumbs up and again let me know
know in the comments what you think so
so have a great day and i look forward to
to seeing you next