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Free sunset SVG files

Free sunset SVG files: the sun going down over the sea, behind palms, a sailing boat, cacti, a thorn tree and a city skyline, a river badge, an arch window, a vintage sunburst, a sunrise, a split sunset for a name and a layered version in five colours.

14 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.

Scenes with a striped sun

A sunset is a sun and a horizon, so every design here has both. The sun is the striped disc of retro prints: slits that widen towards the bottom, each stopping short of the rim so that the disc stays whole, and only the slits that clear the horizon are cut. Where palm fronds, a thorn tree or a row of towers stand in front of the sun, a cut line about 2 mm wide sets them apart from it, so the shapes still read when the whole design is cut from one colour.

Most of the scenes are one piece: the sea, a strip of beach or a ring ties the sun to whatever stands on the horizon. The exceptions say so. The sunrise has loose rays, the split sunset is two halves with a band between them for a name, and the layered sunset is five colour bands and a pair of palms to stack.

Sizes and colours

Every file is 100 mm on its longer side. The thinnest slit in the sun is a little over 1 mm wide at that size and the ripples in the water are about 1.7 mm, so in vinyl these weed comfortably at 100 mm and up. For a small decal, the vintage sunset with line rays and the sunset over a river have nothing fine in them. Sunsets suit warm colours on dark shirts: cut one from orange or coral on navy, or cut the layered version in five steps from yellow to purple.

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

How do I stack the layered sunset?

Start with the full yellow disc. Lay the orange band over its lower three quarters, then coral, pink and purple, each one a little shorter, so that every colour shows as a stripe above the next. The dark palms and their strip of beach go on last. In heat transfer vinyl, press each layer for a few seconds only and give the full time to the last.

Can I put a name in the split sunset?

Yes, that is what the gap is for. The band between the two halves is about 16 mm tall at the file’s own size of 100 mm. Type the name, size it to the band and centre it; keep all three parts on one sheet of transfer tape so the spacing holds.

Which sunset works for a round sign or a coaster?

The sunset over a river and the sunset with clouds are both drawn inside a ring, so they fill a circle exactly. Cut them from one piece of vinyl for a round sign, or from 3 mm plywood: the ring holds every part, and nothing is narrower than 2.7 mm at 100 mm.

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