Free lemon SVG files

Whole lemons and slices cut differently

A whole lemon is a solid oval with a nipple at one end, so it cuts cleanly in any material and at almost any size. The one thin part is the stalk that carries the leaf, about 4.5 mm wide when the lemon is 100 mm long. Keep that in mind for wood: below about 60 mm, choose a design without a leaf, such as the slice.

A slice is the opposite: mostly holes. The segments are windows, and what you keep is the rind, the hub and the spokes between the segments, which are 3 mm wide when the slice is 100 mm across. That is fine for vinyl and card down to about 50 mm. For earrings or coasters in acrylic, the spokes hold well at 40 mm and above, and the monogram slice, with its shorter spokes, goes smaller still.

Colour without layers

Lemons want to be yellow, and the easiest way is to back a slice with yellow card or vinyl so the colour shows through the segment windows. Cut the slice itself in white for a fresh look or in green for a lime. The two layered designs split the fruit and the slice into separate colours for you.

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.

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