30 Best Christmas Fonts for Cricut Design Space

Today, I’m rounding up more than 30 best Christmas fonts to use for your festive creations that will work wonderfully with your Cricut machine or any cutting machine.

With crafting at an all-time high during the Christmas season, many of us with Cricut machines are busy making things like ornaments, custom decorations and gifts, Christmas recipe signs, and endless other handmade creations. Almost all these crafts use text as a common theme.

So, let’s dive into the best premium and free holiday fonts that will really jazz up your crafts in a Christmas-magic kind of way!

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Best Premium Christmas Fonts

For premium (paid) Christmas fonts, my two favorite places to find these fonts are Creative Market and Font Bundles.

1. Christmas Vibes

Looking for a whimsical Christmas font? Christmas Vibes font actually comes with five variations, including several quirky versions, like the playful one shown below.

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2. Merry Lights Christmas Font

This hand-drawn Merry Lights font has the cutest circle dots within the letters that make them look like little lights. Perfect for party invitations or greeting cards!

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3. Snow Christmas Font

Snow Christmas has been designed using flowing calligraphy writing with delicate snowflake embellishments, giving it a wintry but cozy feel.

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4. Nordic Christmas

Nordic Christmas is a stylish Scandinavian font with a bold wintry feel inspired by nature. This font would look “cool” on seasonal cards, posters, or party invites.

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5. Christmas Lights Alphabet

While Christmas Lights is technically not a font (36 separate files with a full alphabet and 10 numbers), I had to include it for its festiveness and style. They can still be used in any editing application. I love the detail of the bright Christmas lights, and the letters actually have a slightly embossed effect.

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6. Snow Family

The “frosty” look from Snow Family is the cutest design, great for Christmas or any winter event, from posters and banners to postcards and invitations.

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7. Ho Ho Holiday Font

This Christmasy alphabet collection, filled with lively dots and lines in a twirly script font, captures the best spirit of the Ho Ho Holiday season.

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8. Candy Cane Comic Font

Candy Cane Comic is a clean, rounded font inspired by the classic red stripes of that favorite Christmas sweet. It’s a great font to use when you’re looking to create a casual touch.

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9. My Dear Santa

With its hand-drawn look, My Dear Santa would be a great font for writing that special letter to Santa. This magical font comes with upper and lowercase characters, a set of numerals and punctuation, and includes 60 holiday icons!

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10. Merry Christmas

Merry Christmas is a fun, casual typeface that works well in crafting for holiday events, banners, or cards. I love this cute bubble style when needing a bold and cheerful look.

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11. Boulevard Script

Boulevard Script is an elegant calligraphy style that would make a beautiful formal holiday invitation with its lovely decorative characters and stylish baseline. Included are 450 unique glyphs! 

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12. La La Lapland

A bundle of fonts with decorative dots and doodles, La La Lapland will work well on wood signs, ornaments, banners, and more.

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13. Joyfully Font

Like all the fonts shared here, Joyfully is a fun and playful font that works well with your Cricut or cutting machine with its smooth, rounded curves. A cheery, free-flowing font for sure!

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14. Christmas Calligraphy

Christmas Calligraphy definitely captures the spirit of Christmas with its warm, nostalgic flair and decorative flourishes. This font would add wonderful whimsy to any holiday craft.

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15. Winter Holidays

Winter Holidays is a fairytale font with some added Christmas freebies. Lots of swirly-twirly here, with lovely sweeping letter strokes.

16. Gingerbread Font

Scrumptious gingerbread cookies designed in chunky alphabet letters and icing designs, Gingerbread font is as Christmasy and delicious as it gets!

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17. Christmas Knitted Sweater

Here’s a pixelated Christmas Knitted font showing a “knitted” effect, with three letter sizes and ornamental symbols that would look great on a sweatshirt or t-shirt. If you’re in the mood, maybe customize your own “ugly” Christmas sweatshirt for that next upbeat holiday party.

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18. Christmas Workshop

Looks like Santa and the elves have been having fun making whimsical cuteness with this Christmas Workshop font. Such a jolly font to share on a card or invite!

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19. Christmas Monogram Font

This clever Christmas Monogram font comes in bold uppercase A-Z letters, each adorned with festive accents, making it uniquely personal for that special someone as a favorite shirt or Christmas tote.

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Best Free Christmas Fonts

Now that we’ve covered my favorite premium fonts, let’s explore some free options. My two favorite places for free downloads of fonts are FontSpace and DaFont. Each of these sites has a large archive with a wide variety of fonts. 

20. Snowballs Font

Full of snowflake embellishments, Snowballs font is an elegant calligraphy style with fancy swashes. I’d love to receive a holiday greeting card or Christmas letter in this style!

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21. The Perfect Christmas

The Perfect Christmas font is a simple, clean style that would look great for both an elegant or vintage-style craft.

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22. I Love Christmas Font

Looking like a festive string of Christmas lights, the I Love Christmas font is a delicate flow of letters and glyphs reflecting the harmony of the season. Imagine creating your own gift wrap with this font in your favorite holiday sayings!

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23. Merry Christmas Font

Merry Christmas is a free font that’s quite popular with its joyful, lively script. The download includes classic holiday elements like a reindeer, present, Christmas tree, and more.

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24. Candy Cane Font

Candy Cane font is of course, a striped bold font, that’s always an iconic Christmas favorite! There are countless ways to include it into your Christmas crafting.

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25. Frozito

A “cool” vibe based on the Frozen theme, Frozito is a whimsical and playful font, perfect for any invitation or flyer with a wintry theme.

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26. Nightmare Before Christmas Font

Based on the film, Nightmare Before Christmas is a jagged-style lettering with an anti-holiday feel. A bit more gothic than holly jolly!

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27. Christmas Wish Calligraphy

Sophisticated and elegant, Christmas Wish Calligraphy is ideal for a formal holiday party invitation with its sweeping flourishes.

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28. Grinched Font

Straight from Whoville, the Grinched font is a bold colorful typeface that would really stand out on any Grinch-themed party decor.

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29. Snowflake Font

Snowflake is another free font from FontSpace with a clear, smooth style and cute miniature snowflakes in every letter.

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30. Crisp Christmas Font

The Crisp Christmas font comes with artistic snowflake glyphs sprinkled in and around the minimalist capital letters. Easy-to read font with holiday flair!

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31. Father Frost

This enchanting Father Frost font resembles icicles frozen in time with curly, hand-drawn letters perfect for crafting a quiet winter scene.

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32. Beauty Mountains

If you’re looking for a tidy and smooth script font, Beauty Mountains is a good fit. It’s easy to read and would pair beautifully with some classic holiday or seasonal embellishments.

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33. Santa Claus Font

No better way to finish our Christmas font roundup than giving a nostalgic nod to jolly old Saint Nick! This traditional Santa Claus font comes with lots of Christmas symbols and would look great for creating an elaborate holiday heading.

With so many decorative fonts to choose from, below are some practical points to consider in selecting, pairing, and uploading fonts that will ensure your success.

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How to Select the Best Christmas Fonts for Cricut Projects

How can you know if the Christmas font you’re about to select for your Christmas project will work well with Cricut Design Space?  As a general rule, the best fonts for cutting are relatively smooth and have a consistent line weight. The tips below will help to ensure you’re choosing a suitable font.  

• File type: Ensure the font you want to download is either a TrueType Font (.ttf) or OpenType Font (.otf), as these are compatible with Design Space. (OTF files often contain more special characters and symbols.)
• Design intricacy: Avoid fonts with small, fine details. Intricate fonts can be difficult for your Cricut machine to cut, especially at small sizes, which can lead to tearing or poor results.
• Line thickness: A font with a relatively even and robust line thickness will cut much more cleanly than one with thin strokes. For script fonts, choose those with thicker connections between letters for easier cutting and weeding.
• Font preview: Before you download, most font websites allow you to type in custom text to see how the font will look. This helps you check for clean outlines and proper spacing.

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How to Make the Best Christmas Font Pairings

A common design principle for font pairing is to combine a decorative/script font with a clean, simple sans-serif or serif font. This creates contrast and ensures the design is legible, which is especially important for cutting machines like Cricut. For example, in this post, the Christmas Wish Calligraphy (script/decorative) font pairs well with Clean Christmas Font (simple sans-serif).

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How to Upload Your Fonts to Cricut and Use Special Characters

So, once you find those favorite Christmas fonts you want to use in your holiday crafting, how do you get them into Design Space and make them part of your font library?

To help you, I’ve created a step-by-step guide on how to upload new fonts into Cricut that includes:

• How to add and organize decorative and ornamental characters (also known as glyphs and dingbats) in your text font library
• A curated list of my favorite online font sources
• A free Font Pairing Guide on how to pair fonts effectively and
• A Best Fonts for Cricut video tutorial that takes you through the entire process and shows you how to use Creative Fabrica’s Font Cloud to preview and manage fonts.

Fonts are one of the easiest ways to add the perfect custom personality to any of your holiday and winter crafts. Which ones are your favorites above? I’d love to see how you use them in my Facebook group here!

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Find More Magical Holiday Crafts

The winter holidays are a favorite time to give homemade gifts that express your personal sentiment and unique style – and create those special memories for family and friends. Be sure to check out these selected Christmas crafts below with more Christmas crafts here. Better yet, become an A-Star Crafter to get unlimited crafts and inspiration!

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