Carving letters that stay in one piece
Letters with a closed middle, called a counter, are the classic trap: cut out an O and its middle falls out with it. Stencil fonts solve this with gaps in each letter. This page does the same job automatically for any font. It checks every piece of pumpkin left inside a letter and connects it to the rest of the pumpkin with the shortest bridge it can find, so BOO gets four bridges: two for the B, one for each O.
The bridges show in green on the preview and print white. Pick Wide for soft pumpkins and Thin for a neater look on a firm one.
Ideas that carve well
- A family name or a single initial on the front door pumpkin.
- A house number, cut large so it reads from the street.
- Short words: BOO, EEK, BOO!, TRICK on one pumpkin and TREAT on another.
- A child’s name, one letter per small pumpkin, lined up on the steps.
Layout tips
Up to three lines are allowed, and each line is centred. Keep lines short: every extra letter makes all of them smaller. Bold block letters carve best because their strokes are thick; the serif and handwritten styles have thin parts that are harder to cut on a small pumpkin. Check the summary under the preview, which counts the holes to cut and the bridges added, before you print.