Free social worker SVG files

Pictures for a job with no single tool

A nurse has a stethoscope and a lineman has a pole, but social work has no one object, so these designs show what the work is for: a child kept safe, a family kept together, someone listened to. None of them uses the badge or logo of an agency or a professional body, and none carries wording, so you can add a name, a team or a line of your own in your cutting software.

The figures are drawn in simple, heavy parts. On the social worker holding hands with a child at 100 mm tall the arms are about 6 mm wide and the string of the balloon, the thinnest part, is about 2 mm. Cut that one at 80 mm or more. The heart with a grown-up and a child, the tote bag and the speech bubbles are solid shapes with a few openings and work as small stickers.

Small figures and joined hands

Three designs have small people in them: the family under one roof, the umbrella and the ring of people. Their arms are about 3 mm wide at 100 mm, and every figure is joined to a floor, a ring or a neighbour so that nothing is loose. Keep these at 90 mm or more in vinyl, and weed from the outside in. For wood or acrylic, the silhouette at a house stands on a straight strip and can be stood upright in a shadow box.

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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