Embroidery lettering — a name, a word, a date
Most embroidery is not a logo. It is a name on a jacket, a date on a christening blanket, a word on a cap. That does not need a designer and it does not need a digitizer — it needs a typeface that has been built for thread, and a height that the letters can survive.
Letter height is the whole thing
Type is drawn to be read, not to be sewn, and a stroke that looks fine on paper can fall under what a needle can place. A satin needs about 1.0 mm of width. Below roughly 5 mm of letter height most typefaces have strokes thinner than that, and the letters close up or break. Set the height first and choose the face second — not the other way round.
Eleven faces, and you can see them
Each one behaves differently at small sizes: a face with even strokes survives further down than one with thick-and-thin contrast, and a script needs more height than a block. They are on screen, at your height, before you choose — so it is not a name in a list, it is the letters you are actually getting.
Spacing is a stitching decision, not a typographic one
Letters that are correctly spaced on screen can touch once they have thread on them, because a satin adds width to every stroke. The workshop gives you letter spacing and line spacing as their own settings, so you can open them up until the thread has room.
- How small can embroidered lettering be?
- About 5 mm of letter height for most typefaces, because below that the strokes fall under the 1.0 mm a satin stitch needs. A face with even strokes goes lower than one with thick-and-thin contrast.
- Can I put a name on a cap or a jacket?
- Yes — type it, pick the height in millimetres, choose a typeface and download the format your machine reads. It is the same stitch file a logo produces, just from letters instead of shapes.
- What does embroidery lettering cost?
- Here it is $5 a file, flat, however many letters it is. There is no per-letter charge and no account needed.
Lettering is $5 a file, flat, with no account and no subscription. Studio and Shop plans include some each month. You see every stitch at your chosen height before you pay.