Font & cut file formats: what each craft app accepts

Which font files and cut files each app opens, from the makers’ own help pages. Pick your app to see only its column.

What “Via OS”, “Limited” and the other marks mean

Yes the maker’s help says it works
No the maker’s help says it does not
Paid only needs a paid plan or edition
Limited works with a catch (see the cell)
Via OS no font upload: the app uses fonts installed in Windows, macOS or iPadOS
Not documented we found no official statement either way

Font files

Font file formats by app. Status comes from each maker’s help pages; nothing was tested on a machine. Last checked: September 27, 2026.
Format	Canva Free	Canva Pro & other paid plans	Design Space Windows / Mac	Design Space iPad / iPhone	Design Space Android	Silhouette Studio all editions	Procreate iPad	Glowforge app web	xTool Creative Space XCS, final v2.7	xTool Studio current
How a font gets in	Font upload is not part of the Free plan.	Upload the file to your Brand Kit (desktop or mobile).	No upload. Install the font in Windows or macOS and it shows up under System fonts.	No upload. Uses fonts installed on the device; Apple’s route is a font app from the App Store.	No upload. Cricut says it lists fonts installed on the device.	Uses TTF and OTF fonts installed on your computer.	Import into the app: Add Text › Edit Style › Import Font, drag from Files, AirDrop, or the Procreate › Fonts folder.	No documented way to add your own font file. Premium has a built-in font library.	Install in Windows or macOS, then fully close and reopen XCS.	Local fonts (installed in the OS, one-time permission), Cloud Fonts, or upload a file to My Uploads.
TTF TrueType	No Upload needs a paid plan	Paid only	Via OS	Via OS	Not documented No official way to install one found	Yes	Yes	Not documented	Via OS	Yes Upload screen says “typically TTF”
OTF OpenType	No	Paid only	Via OS	Via OS	Not documented	Yes	Yes	Not documented	Via OS	Via OS Upload of OTF not stated
WOFF web font	No	Paid only	Not documented	Not documented	Not documented	Not documented	Not documented	Not documented	Not documented	Not documented
WOFF2 web font	No	No Rejected, as are .zip, .eot and .svg	Not documented	Not documented	Not documented	Not documented	Not documented	Not documented	Not documented	Not documented
TTC font collection	No	Not documented	Not documented	Not documented	Not documented	Not documented	Yes	Not documented	Not documented	Not documented
Variable fonts one file, many weights	No	No Upload the static weights instead	Not documented	Not documented	Not documented	Not documented	Not documented	Not documented	Not documented	Not documented
Color fonts OpenType-SVG	No	Not documented	Not documented	Not documented	Not documented	Not documented	Not documented	Not documented	Not documented	Not documented
Limits & notes	The upload feature is listed for Pro, Teams, Business, Education and Nonprofits only.	Under 15 MB per file, up to 500 fonts per Brand Kit. On a team only owners, admins and brand designers can upload. The license must allow embedding; Adobe Originals are not supported. Bold and italic buttons need their own files.	Cricut publishes no list of font formats. Projects that use system fonts can’t be shared publicly. Most installed fonts are kerned, some aren’t. No Chromebook version.	Apple’s font-install mechanism delivers TrueType and OpenType fonts. System fonts work in offline mode.	We found no official, device-independent way to install a .ttf or .otf on Android. No offline mode on Android.	The Glyphs tab (for swashes and alternates) is only in Designer Edition and higher.	Unzip first in the Files app. Built-in iPadOS fonts are available too. No glyph picker.	Live text inside an uploaded file is removed, so convert text to shapes before uploading. Premium starts at $20/month.	Hebrew fonts are not supported and some fonts may not display. XCS stopped at V2.7 (June 25, 2025); xTool Studio replaces it.	You confirm you have the right to use an uploaded font. P3, F2-series and xTool machines released after August 2025 work only with Studio.
Sources	Canva Help: Upload formats and requirements Last checked: September 27, 2026	Canva Help: Upload Brand Kit fonts Canva Help: Font upload error Canva Help: Upload formats and requirements Last checked: September 27, 2026	Cricut Help: Working with text Cricut Help: Sharing a Design Space project Cricut Help: Design Space FAQ Last checked: September 27, 2026	Cricut Help: Working with text Apple Support: Install and manage fonts on iPad Apple Support: Fonts device management payload Cricut Help: Design Space offline feature Last checked: September 27, 2026	Cricut Help: Working with text Cricut Help: Design Space offline feature Last checked: September 27, 2026	Silhouette America Support: File types and features Silhouette America Support: Designer Edition features Last checked: September 27, 2026	Procreate Handbook: Fonts Procreate Help: Importing your fonts Last checked: September 27, 2026	Glowforge Help: Adding text with Premium Glowforge Help: Design text is not showing Last checked: September 27, 2026	xTool Support: Custom fonts in XCS xTool Support: Transition from XCS to xTool Studio Last checked: September 27, 2026	xTool Support: Local and Cloud Fonts in xTool Studio xTool Support: Transition from XCS to xTool Studio Last checked: September 27, 2026

Cricut Design Space, Silhouette Studio and XCS use the fonts installed in your operating system. So “installing a font for Cricut” means installing it in the operating system (steps below).
Canva wants TTF, OTF or WOFF on a paid plan. WOFF2 and zipped fonts are refused, and variable fonts aren’t supported.
Procreate imports TTF, OTF and TTC directly — no system install needed.

Cut and engrave files

Design file formats each app can open. Status comes from each maker’s help pages; nothing was tested on a machine. Last checked: September 27, 2026.
Format	Design Space Windows / Mac	Design Space iPad / iPhone / Android	Silhouette Studio Basic (free)	Silhouette Studio Designer / Designer Plus	Silhouette Studio Business	Glowforge app web	xTool Creative Space XCS, legacy	xTool Studio current	Canva as a design source
SVG	Yes Up to 5,000 paths	Yes	No Needs Designer Edition	Yes	Yes Can also export (flattened)	Yes Cut + engrave; outline text first	Limited Text inside the SVG is dropped	Limited Text inside the SVG is dropped	Limited Upload under 3 MB, SVG 1.1. Download as SVG: paid plans only
DXF	Yes	No Use SVG on mobile	Yes	Yes	Yes	Paid only Premium members only	Yes	Yes	Not documented
PNG / JPG	Limited Raster: clean up into a cut shape	Yes	Limited Tracing only	Limited Tracing only	Limited Tracing only; can export	Limited Engrave only	Yes	Yes	Yes Download on all plans; transparent background is paid
PDF	No	No	No Needs Designer Edition	Yes As an image (no cut lines) or as vectors	Yes Can also export	Yes Cut + engrave	No Convert first	Yes	Yes Import up to 300 MB / 500 pages; download on all plans
Also good to know	Also GIF, BMP and HEIC as raster images; no TIFF. SVGs keep their size and every vector becomes a cut line.	No TIFF either.	Opens STUDIO/STUDIO3 and GSD/GST files ready to cut.	One-time upgrade from Basic: $49.99 (Designer) or $74.99 (Designer Plus, adds embroidery files).	Adds AI, EPS and CDR. One-time upgrade: $99.99. Other editions save only in STUDIO3.	In uploaded designs strokes become cuts and fills become engraves.	Also JPG and BMP. Exports SVG and .xcs project files.	Also PSD, XCS, BMP, WEBP, TIFF and GIF. From v1.7 new projects save as .xs.	Canva advises converting strokes and text to outlines before uploading an SVG.
Sources	Cricut Help: Uploading images into Design Space Last checked: September 27, 2026	Cricut Help: Uploading images into Design Space Last checked: September 27, 2026	Silhouette America Support: File types and features Last checked: September 27, 2026	Silhouette America Support: File types and features Silhouette America: Silhouette Studio editions Last checked: September 27, 2026	Silhouette America Support: File types and features Silhouette America: Silhouette Studio editions Last checked: September 27, 2026	Glowforge Help: Upload your own design file Glowforge Help: Design text is not showing Last checked: September 27, 2026	xTool Support: Importing images into XCS Last checked: September 27, 2026	xTool Support: Import failures in xTool Studio xTool Support: Importing images into XCS Last checked: September 27, 2026	Canva Help: Upload formats and requirements Canva Help: Download designs Last checked: September 27, 2026

Free Silhouette Studio Basic can’t open SVG; use DXF, or upgrade to Designer Edition.
Design Space on a phone or tablet can’t open DXF; use SVG. PDF isn’t on Design Space’s upload list at all.
Glowforge and xTool drop live text inside an uploaded file, and Cricut and Canva want it outlined too — convert text to paths first.

Install a font so it shows up in Cricut Design Space

Design Space has no font upload: next to Cricut’s own fonts it lists the system fonts installed on your computer or device, and a filter in the font list shows one group or the other. Silhouette Studio and xTool Creative Space work the same way.

Source: Cricut Help: Working with text · Last checked: September 27, 2026

Windows 10 / 11

Unzip the download — Windows installs .ttf and .otf files.
Right-click the font file and choose Install, or Install for all users.
Open Design Space, add text, and look under System fonts in the font list.

Installed fonts can be checked or removed in Settings › Personalization › Fonts. Microsoft notes that not every app supports custom fonts.

Source: Microsoft Support: Manage fonts in Windows · Last checked: September 27, 2026

macOS

Double-click the font file in Finder and click Install.
Or drag it onto Font Book, or use File › Add Fonts to Current User.
Font Book checks the font for errors and duplicates while installing.

Font Book accepts TTF (including variable TTF), OTF (including OpenType-SVG color fonts), TTC and OpenType collections.

Source: Apple Support: Install and validate fonts in Font Book · Last checked: September 27, 2026

iPad / iPhone

Apple’s route is an App Store app that contains fonts: install it and open it to add its fonts.
Check them in Settings › General › Fonts.
Some font apps use a configuration profile; iPadOS asks first, and lists it under VPN & Device Management.

Deleting a profile also removes the fonts it installed.

Source: Apple Support: Install and manage fonts on iPad · Last checked: September 27, 2026

Source: Apple Support: Configuration profiles on iPad · Last checked: September 27, 2026

Android: no official route found Cricut says the Android app lists fonts installed on the device, but we found no official, device-independent way to install a downloaded .ttf or .otf on Android. If you have a computer, Design Space for Windows or Mac is the documented path.

Using xTool Creative Space? After installing, fully close and reopen XCS before the font appears. In xTool Studio you can also upload a font file to My Uploads instead.

Source: xTool Support: Custom fonts in XCS · Last checked: September 27, 2026

Drawing, foiling or engraving with a Cricut? Cricut recommends single-line fonts, found with the Writing Style filter. A regular filled font is traced along its outline, so the letters come out looking hollow, like bubble letters. Cricut doesn’t say whether a font you install yourself can get the Writing style.

Source: Cricut Help: Engraving with Cricut Maker · Last checked: September 27, 2026

Fonts with swashes and alternates hide them in extra characters. The font glyph viewer shows every glyph in a file so you can copy the one you want.

Variable fonts: one file, many weights

A variable font packs a whole range of weights (and sometimes widths) into one file. Drag the sliders — this is a single file of Fredoka, an SIL OFL font bundled with this site.

Cut & press

Weight 500

Width 100

Canva doesn’t support variable fonts — upload the separate static weight files instead.
macOS installs variable TTF files.
Windows ships its own variable font, Bahnschrift. Its preset named styles keep it usable in apps without full variable-font support.
Cricut, Silhouette, Procreate, Glowforge, xTool: we found no official statement about variable or color fonts. If a family comes with static files as well, those are the safer choice.

Source: Canva Help: Upload Brand Kit fonts · Last checked: September 27, 2026

Source: Microsoft Learn: Bahnschrift font family · Last checked: September 27, 2026

Sending text to a cutter or laser: turn it into paths

An SVG can hold “live” text that still needs the font to display. The receiving app often doesn’t have that font, so the text disappears or is refused:

Glowforge: Removes live text from uploads. Convert it first (Inkscape: Path › Object to Path; Illustrator: Type › Create Outlines). Source: Glowforge Help: Design text is not showing · Last checked: September 27, 2026
xTool XCS & Studio: Drop text inside an SVG; xTool suggests converting to paths and saving as Plain SVG. Source: xTool Support: Importing images into XCS · Last checked: September 27, 2026
Cricut Design Space: Can’t use SVGs that still contain editable text, clipping paths or embedded images. Source: Cricut Help Center: Image uploads – unsupported items · Last checked: September 27, 2026
Canva: Advises expanding strokes and text to outlines before uploading an SVG. Source: Canva Help: Upload formats and requirements · Last checked: September 27, 2026

The bubble letter, graffiti letter and cursive SVG generators on this site export text that is already converted to filled paths — no live text, clipping paths or images. The files are calculated, not machine-tested, so do a small test cut first.

Where Creative Fabrica fonts fit

Creative Fabrica delivers its fonts as OTF and/or TTF files; web-font formats such as WOFF come only with its Enterprise License. That means the Windows and Mac steps above apply as-is for Design Space, Silhouette Studio and XCS, and the files are formats Canva accepts on a paid plan.

Source: Creative Fabrica Help: Which formats do the fonts come in? · Last checked: September 27, 2026

Looking for fonts to install? Creative Fabrica’s font library has a Cricut fonts tag, and its craft files section has ready-made SVG cut files.

Links to Creative Fabrica are affiliate links: FontCubby may earn a commission if you buy, at no extra cost to you. Details.

A format that loads is not the same as a license that allows your use. Canva, for example, needs a font licensed for embedding, and selling products has its own rules — see font licenses for sellers, Canva fonts and commercial use and the Creative Fabrica license summary, or read a file’s embedded license with the font license checker.

Not legal advice: read the font’s own license before you sell.