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Free island SVG files

Free island SVG files: an island silhouette with two palms, a deserted island, tropical islands with a mountain, a hut on stilts, a volcano island, a hammock between two palms, a shipwreck, a rock stack, a sandbar, a sunset badge and a ring frame. Every island sits in a band of sea with a flat underside.

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

Or choose one below for its PNG, DXF and cutting sizes.

Palms, fronds and the size to cut them

An island is mostly its palms, and a palm is mostly its fronds. Each frond here is a drooping blade with four notches cut in its lower edge, seven to a tree, with two coconuts under the crown. On the tallest palm the fronds are about 4.5 mm deep and the notches leave 2 to 3 mm of leaf, and the trunk tapers from about 4.5 mm at the foot to a little under 3 mm below the crown, measured with the island 100 mm wide.

That is sturdy enough for vinyl from about 70 mm wide and for card from 90 mm. For thin wood or acrylic cut at 150 mm or more, so that the tips of the fronds are not left as splinters. The smallest palms, on the volcano and on the second of the tropical islands, are the first things to lose their notches if you cut very small.

A sea to stand on

Every side view ends in the same band of sea: a wavy top where the island sits and a straight underside. Glue a tab to that edge, or slot it into a base, and the island stands up. In a shadow box put the rock stack or the volcano at the back, the island silhouette or the sandbar in the middle and the shipwreck at the front, each a little lower than the last so the seas overlap like waves.

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

Which island suits a name or a monogram?

The island ring frame with two palms. The clear space between the trunks is about 30 mm wide at the sand and opens to about 60 mm under the fronds when the ring is 100 mm across, which takes one large initial or a short name.

Can I cut the islands without the sea?

Yes. In your cutting software draw a rectangle over the band of sea and subtract it, leaving the sand as the bottom edge. The palms and the hut stay joined to the sand. The shark fin and the bottle on the deserted island need the sea to hold them, so delete those two with it.

Is the hut a real kind of house?

It is drawn after the stilt houses of the tropics, such as the nipa hut of the Philippines: a thatched roof with deep eaves, walls of woven panels and a floor raised on posts to keep it dry and cool. It is a plain example, not a copy of one building.

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