Canva SVG for Cricut: upload rules, SVG download and the free-plan route

Upload an SVG to Canva

Canva’s upload page sets three rules for an SVG: under 3 MB, between 150 and 200 pixels wide, and saved with the SVG 1.1 profile. Its preparation list asks for strokes and text expanded into shapes, shapes of one color grouped together, no textures or gradients, the artwork inside the artboard and no stray or hidden layers.

Our files keep the size and preparation rules by design: every file here, pack sheets included, is far under the 3 MB limit, every color is flat, and every letter is already a shape.

Download a Canva design as an SVG

Canva lists SVG downloads, like transparent PNGs, among the options for Canva Pro, Teams, Education and Nonprofits accounts.

1. Open the design and select Share, then Download.
2. Under File type choose SVG, which needs one of those paid plans.
3. Upload the SVG to your cutting software and check its width and height against your Canva design.
4. Set each layer to cut, score, draw or engrave there; Canva doesn’t mark them.

On the free plan: a PNG, then trace it

Download the design as a PNG. On the free plan it keeps its background, because a transparent background is one of the paid options; the tracer leaves a plain background out. Drop the PNG into our PNG to SVG converter, choose One-color silhouette for a single cut or Color layers to cut each color separately, type the width you want and download the SVG. The picture never leaves your browser.

Trace the PNG into a cut file →

A worked example

Say you lettered a 6 × 4 in party sign in Canva on the free plan. Download it as a PNG, drop it into the converter, keep One-color silhouette, type 152.4 mm (6 in) as the width and download the SVG. The file is 6 in wide, like your Canva page, and Design Space keeps an uploaded SVG’s size, so the lettering cuts at the size you laid it out.