Free reindeer SVG files

Cutting antlers and legs cleanly

A reindeer is a solid body carried on thin parts: four legs and a pair of branching antlers. With the whole standing reindeer at 100 mm tall, the tines of the antlers are about 2 mm wide and the lower legs between 2 and 3 mm. That is comfortable in vinyl and card. In 3 mm plywood or acrylic, cut the full reindeer at 180 mm or more so those parts keep some strength, or choose the reindeer head in a ring, where the frame supports every tine.

Weed antlers from the base towards the tips, and peel transfer tape the same way, so a tine is never pulled against its own root. The simple antlers and the cute face have nothing thin in them and are the ones to use for small tags and stickers.

The round nose

On the faces the nose is a hole, so whatever lies behind it gives the colour: red card behind a brown face, or a red glitter dot stuck on afterwards. The eyes work the same way with black or white backing. The face pieces are the other way round: antlers, eyes and nose are loose shapes to cut in brown, black and red and stick on a bauble or a jar.

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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