If you’re using a font that is not PUA encoded, you won’t be able to access these characters and the character map will be blank like this one is. PUA stands for “private use areas” and PUA encoded fonts allow you to access any special or extended characters included in a font in programs such as Silhouette Studio, Cricut Design Space, and Mint Studio. If you go through the step-by-step process shown in the video and see a bunch of blank areas where the extended characters should be, then you may very well be dealing with a non-PUA encoded font. The font that I use in the video is called So Fontsy, and as of the date of this post, you can download it for FREE exclusively over on the SoFontsy site. If you’re on a Mac, you can use an app called Font Book to accomplish the same thing. In the video below, I’ll take you through the process of accessing extended font characters in Silhouette Mint Studio on a Windows PC using the Character Map. So, of course we want to be able to access these options when we’re making our Silhouette Mint stamps, right? Each of these types of extended characters adds visual appeal and a more hand lettered, custom look to your finished design. Extended characters can also include ligatures, which are two or more letters that are designed as a single glyph for better visual appeal. These can include multiple variations of characters – for example, two different lowercase “a’s” and/or two different uppercase “S’s” – as well as character variations with beautiful flourished endings and special glyphs for non-English alphabets. Over the past few years, SO MANY beautiful fonts have been released, and many of them included extended characters.
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