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10/28/2016 Understanding Alphabet and Font Options SUBSCRIBE ADVERTISE RSS Imprinted Sportswear Shows Attend in Long Beach , Atlantic City, Nashville , Orlando, Fort Worth HOME NEWS SCREEN PRINTING EMBROIDERY DIGITAL DECORATING PRODUCTS GALLERIES BUILD YOUR BUSINESS Design + Digitizing SEARCH GO Understanding Alphabet and Font Options By choosing one of these four ways to create data for stitching lettering, sit’ possible to strike a balance between style and substance. November 20, 2013 By Deborah Jones, Contributing Writer Newsletters Get Impressions' newsletters delivered weekly to your inbox EMAIL ADDRESS SEE ALL OF OUR NEWSLETTERS » Impressions Newsletter Product Guide Digital Edition Tech Tips Quick Tips SIGN ME UP » Kerning is necessary. Here, the boundaries of each character are shown as rectangles. In some systems, letters are placed on the screen with their boundaries touching. Valuebased or manual adjustment is needed to create a pleasing arrangement. Like it or not, it’s a simple fact that most embroidery jobs use some type of lettering. Unless you’re only reproducing fine art via the embroidery medium, lettering typically is an integral ingredient. One of my earliest embroidery mentors instilled in me an appreciation of the finer points of lettering. My father was fascinated with embroidered lettering and dreamt of creating a way to do what we know as keyboard lettering. In those days, cumbersome cardboard jacquards were read by pins that passed through holes, much in the same way that a player piano operates. There currently are four ways to create data to stitch lettering on a computerized embroidery machine: custom digitizing, digitized keyboard fonts, autodigitized TrueType fonts and alphabets as designs. Let’ s take a look at the pros and cons of each method and how you can use each to your advantage. http://impressions.issshows.com/embroiderydigitizing/UnderstandingAlphab7162.shtml 1/4
10/28/2016 Understanding Alphabet and Font Options each method and how you can use each to your advantage. 1. CustomDigitized Lettering When creating logos, I prefer this method because there are small nuances to most lettering that only are captured by digitizing from the artwork, and in this method, the lettering is digitized specifically for each job. The other reason to custom digitize lettering is to make it run ef ficiently. Custom lettering created by a professional or experienced digitizer is production friendly , and has the proper underlay and density values for the fabric onto which it will be stitched. I don’t try to force a keyboard font into a logo unless it’ s a perfect match. Using a keyboard font for a logo rarely results in the same highquality sewout that can be achieved when the lettering is custom digitized. Sometimes special considerations — like time and money — can get in the way of using customdigitized lettering. In these instances, three choices remain: keyboard fonts, autodigitized T rueType fonts and alphabets as designs. Shop Spotlight 2. Digitized Keyboard Fonts This quickandeasy method is how most of us embroiderers create lettering for everyday jobs, from personalized sewouts to poems and scriptures, and everything in between. In this method, letters and words are typed at the computer keyboard in much the same way as you type in a word processing program like Microsoft W ord. The user selects the style, size, density and other parameters, and the stitches are generated according to the user ’s instructions. In most systems, the resulting lettering is fully editable. The best practice is to save in the native format of the software so that it can be edited later , in the event that it doesn’t stitch as planned or you discover a misspelling. Then, save the lettering to a stitch file, such as DST or EXP, to be easily read by an embroidery machine. Even though the software you regularly use probably has about 100 digitized keyboard fonts, chances are good that you use only a few select favorites. That’ s because you know them well and they’re reliable. You don’t have to do a test sewout before each job because you have used these fonts so many times that you can predict the styles that will work well in a small size, as well as the ones that are bold enough to stand out on plush material. Process Engineering When Michael Rothermund got laid of f from his fourth job in the engineering industry , he knew it was time for a change — and all signs pointed to the Tshirt business... Read more A L P H A B E T T E M P L A T E F R E E easytemplatemanager.com Customize & Print Templates Quickly Search 100s of Free Templates Now! Of course, you know the “bad” fonts too — such as the script fonts that have awkward connections or strange characters (like a “T” that looks like an “I” and an “S” that doesn’t look like any handwriting you’ve ever seen). Some sophisticated software packages allow you to edit characters and save them for future use. Still, I’m a believer that you can hardly have too many lettering software packages. When trying to match a keyboard font to a specific customerrequested font style, it seems that the customer ’s lettering always has at least one character that’ s different than the similar font in your system. Instead of spending up to an hour trying to edit the character , a different software package could have a font that more closely matches what your customer wants. Most embroidery software brands have reasonably priced lettering packages, which are good for ensuring lots of lettering options. 3. TrueType Font Generation Modern software packages also usually include a T rueType font generator that converts TrueType fonts into stitches. This can be useful for certain lettering styles and sizes, but the resulting lettering sometimes contains incorrect stitch directions and other edits may be needed. When used with discretion and proper settings, this type of lettering can serve a purpose. However, be aware that many TrueType fonts will need to be adjusted to their column widths using the “Pull Compensation” feature of your software. http://impressions.issshows.com/embroiderydigitizing/UnderstandingAlphab7162.shtml 2/4
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