Merry Christmas Mixed Type SVG

About this design

This is the kind of lettering you see on boutique Christmas shirts: three fonts, three moods, one tidy block. Merry sits at the top in a heavy, upright script with swashes on its capital. CHRISTMAS fills the middle line in tall, tightly spaced condensed capitals. At the bottom, & happy new year adds a casual brush script in lowercase, like a handwritten afterthought. Two gold four-point sparkles float at the top corners.

The block is almost square, which makes it easy to center on a shirt, a pillow or a square sign.

Color layers

• Lettering in red, the base layer with every word
• Accents in gold for the sparkles
• Details in green for CHRISTMAS, layered over the red

Pieces and cutting

The solid file has 20 pieces and 8 cut-outs. It passes our cut checks from about 5 inches wide. The brush script line at the bottom is the smallest, so if you cut from glitter or flocked vinyl, choose 7 inches or more.

Projects

• Boutique-style shirts and raglans.
• Throw pillows in a square format.
• Canvas wall art for a gallery wall.
• Tumblers with permanent vinyl.
• Wrapping paper stamps: cut the solid style from foam sheet and glue it to a block.

Step by step: a two-color shirt

1. Set the design to 10 inches for an adult shirt or 7 inches for a child’s.
2. Download the color file and mirror both layers in the editor.
3. Cut the lettering layer from red iron-on vinyl and the details layer from green.
4. Press the red layer, then lay the green CHRISTMAS exactly over the red letters and press for a few seconds more.
5. Add the gold sparkles last if you want them, with a quick final press.

Color ideas

• Red, green and gold, as shown
• Black and white on a buffalo-check shirt
• Pink and mint for a pastel Christmas

About the lettering

All three typefaces are free, open-licensed fonts, and the letters are already shapes in the file. The way they are stacked and sized together is specific to this design.

Variations to try

• Leave off the bottom line for a simple Merry Christmas.
• Use the editor’s offset border to add a white outline before pressing on a dark shirt.
• Cut CHRISTMAS from glitter vinyl for extra sparkle.

Pairs well with

The Merry Christmas Tree Typography stacks mixed type into a tree shape, and Merry Everything is another shirt-friendly block.