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Free footprint SVG files

Free footprint SVG files: the bare prints of grown feet as a pair, a single print, a one-piece silhouette, a trail of steps, footprints in the sand and prints walking round a ring, plus the tread of a boot and a trainer and a sheet of six animal tracks.

15 designs. Free for personal and commercial use, no sign-up. What you can do with them.

Loose toes or one piece

A real footprint is not one shape. The ball, the outer edge and the heel touch the ground as one patch, and each toe leaves its own mark. The pair, the single print and the trail are drawn that way, so each foot is six pieces. In vinyl that is no trouble: weed the sheet, then lift all the pieces at once with transfer tape and the spacing is kept. In paper or wood it is fiddly, so the silhouette, the feet with heels together, the curving path and the cute footprint have the toes welded on, so each foot cuts as a single piece.

Every file is 100 mm on its longer side, which makes the single print about the length of a small child’s foot. A grown foot is 230 to 290 mm long, so scale the pair to 250 mm for floor markers that look life size. The smallest toe is about 6 mm across at 100 mm, so the loose prints can go down to about 50 mm before the little toes get hard to handle.

Trails, floors and treads

For a trail along a floor or a wall, cut the pair several times and set the prints about one and a half foot lengths apart, left and right in turn. Use removable vinyl on painted walls and a floor grade vinyl where people will walk. The boot and trainer prints are single pieces with the tread cut as slots, and they work as stencils: dab paint through them for muddy tracks across a doormat or a party invitation.

How to open the files

  • Cricut Design Space: choose Upload, pick the SVG, and add it to the canvas. Set the width you want; the shape is already welded.
  • Silhouette Studio: Designer Edition and above open the SVG. The free Basic Edition does not, so open the DXF instead.
  • LightBurn, xTool Creative Space and Glowforge: import the SVG, then set the layer to cut, score or engrave.
  • Inkscape, Illustrator and Affinity: open the SVG. It is a plain filled path, so you can recolour it, add a stroke or combine it with your own work.
  • Printing or sublimation: use the PNG, which has a transparent background.

Each design page lists the file’s narrowest part at seven sizes, so you can tell whether it will survive at the size you plan to cut.

Questions

How do I keep the toes in the right place?

Do not move them one by one. In vinyl, weed away the waste and press one piece of transfer tape over the whole print, then lift the sole and toes together. In paper, cut the print as a stencil: keep the outer sheet, lay it on your page and stick each piece through its own hole.

Which way round is a left footprint?

Seen from above, a left print has its big toe on the right and the deep curve of the arch on the right as well. The single footprint and the silhouette are left feet. Mirror them in your cutting software to make the right foot.

Can I use these for baby footprints?

These are the longer, narrower prints of older children and adults, with a clear arch. A baby’s foot is short and plump with almost no arch, and the library has a separate set of baby feet drawn that way.

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