Free school bus SVG files

Yellow vinyl, black details

A school bus is yellow with black rails and dark glass. Cut any of these from yellow and stick it on something dark, and the windows, door and rails show through in the right colours without a second layer. On a light background, cut a plain black rectangle a little smaller than the bus and put it underneath.

The posts between the windows are about 2.2 mm wide when the side view is 100 mm long, and the arm of the wing mirror is 2 mm. That is fine in vinyl and card from about 70 mm long. For wood and acrylic, cut the bus at 150 mm or longer, or use the school bus silhouette, which has no rails or small holes.

Names, routes and numbers

Buses are often personalised with a child’s name, a route number or a driver’s name. The split school bus leaves a clear band along the side for a name. The monogram bus has a round window for one initial, and the bus on a plaque stands on a blank bar. On the bus from the front, the panel above the windscreen is blank and takes a short word or a number.

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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