Text to SVG Converter

About the Text to SVG Converter

Turn any text into real SVG outlines — the shapes of the letters as paths, so the design looks the same everywhere, needs no font installed and can be cut, engraved or animated. Type your text, choose one of the self-hosted library fonts (Inter, Montserrat, Poppins, Archivo, Noto Sans, Bebas Neue, Anton, Caveat, Dancing Script, Great Vibes and more) or open your own font file (TTF, OTF, WOFF, WOFF2 or a TTC collection), and the letters are set with the font’s own rules: kerning pairs, ligatures such as fi and fl, contextual forms of script fonts, the conjuncts of Devanagari, and any optional OpenType feature you turn on, from small capitals to stylistic sets. Variable fonts get a slider for every axis.

Set the size, letter spacing, line height and alignment, the fill and an outline, or put the text on a circle for badges and stamps. Get one combined path, one path per letter (each with its character), or every letter as its own SVG file in a ZIP; give the SVG a printed width in mm or inches for cutting machines and lasers, export a PNG at 2×, 4× or 300 DPI, or copy the path data for code. Everything runs in your browser and nothing is uploaded. Without a pass you see a watermarked free preview of the outlines and a close-up of their edges; a Pro pass unlocks the files and the path data.

Common uses

• Logos and wordmarks that must look the same without the font installed.
• Names and phrases for Cricut, Silhouette, Glowforge and other cutters and lasers, with the size set in mm or inches.
• SVG icons, animated text and path data for web pages, React components or CSS masks.
• Circular text for badges, stamps, seals and coasters.
• An alphabet of single-letter SVG files for stencils, signs or letter boards.

How the outlines are made

The text is shaped by fontkit, the font engine that reads OpenType fonts: it applies the font’s kerning (its GPOS table or the older kern table), its ligatures and contextual alternates (GSUB), and fontkit’s shapers for scripts whose letters change shape, such as Devanagari and Arabic. Each glyph’s outline is then placed at its position and written as SVG path data: TrueType fonts draw with quadratic curves (Q), CFF fonts with cubic ones (C). Nothing is traced or approximated: the paths are the font’s own curves, so they stay sharp at any size. For software that reads only cubic curves, Cubic curves only writes each quadratic curve as the identical cubic one.

Fonts and licences

Every font in the library is under the SIL Open Font License 1.1, whose FAQ allows using the fonts for any design work — logos, signs, T-shirts, laser-cut or 3D-printed objects — with no extra permission, and you stay the author of what you make. An SVG made here contains only the letter shapes, never a font file. With your own font, check its licence: most allow outlines in a logo or a product, but some commercial licences limit how many products or which uses. The font file you open stays on your device.

For cutting machines and lasers

Give the design a printed width under Output: the SVG then carries its size in mm or inches in its width and height, so programs that read SVG units open it at that size instead of converting pixels at a density of their own. Many laser programs cut along outlines and engrave fills, so for cutting choose No fill and a thin outline; for vinyl and print keep the fill. Script fonts draw each letter as its own shape, and joined letters overlap: weld them in your machine’s software, or use the Cut File Maker, which welds them into one outline and adds offsets. One path per letter keeps each letter separate for spacing by hand, and Letters (ZIP) gives every letter as its own file.

Text on a circle

Each letter keeps its shape and is turned about the centre of the circle so that its baseline touches it. Text on the top reads clockwise outside the circle; text on the bottom reads upright inside it, so the same radius gives a ring with the words facing out. For a classic badge, set the top text on one radius and the bottom text on a radius larger by about the height of its capitals, so both sit in the same band. Spread spaces the letters evenly around the whole circle, and the page warns when the text is longer than the circle.

OpenType features

Under More OpenType features the page lists the optional features the chosen font really has, with their names from the OpenType feature registry: small capitals, oldstyle or tabular figures, fractions, discretionary ligatures, swashes and the font’s stylistic sets and character variants. They change which shapes are drawn, so the SVG keeps them without any CSS.

Limitations

• Each line is shaped as one run in one direction: a line that mixes right-to-left and left-to-right text (Arabic or Hebrew with Latin words) may come out in the wrong order; set such text one direction per line.
• Library fonts cover Latin, Cyrillic, Greek, Vietnamese and Devanagari. For other scripts open a font file that has them; complex scripts are shaped by fontkit’s own shapers and are worth a careful look.
• Overlapping parts of letters (script fonts, many variable fonts) stay separate shapes: they fill correctly, but a cutter follows every line unless you weld them.
• Colour fonts are not drawn in colour: only plain outlines can be converted, and emoji or other bitmap glyphs have none.
• Text is limited to 5,000 characters and 200 lines at a time; the PNG to 8,192 pixels on its longest side.
• In the free preview the outlines are shown at preview size with a watermark and a 4× close-up; the SVG, PNG, ZIP and path data unlock with a pass.

Privacy

Everything happens in your browser. What you enter or open here is not uploaded or stored by MySmartCoPilot. The font engine (about 330 KB) and each library font file your text needs (about 20–45 KB) are downloaded from this site the first time they are used. Your text and your own font files stay on your device.