Font Category

Click the drop-down arrow on the right of the font gallery and scroll through the list of fonts by category. There are 18 themed font categories, in addition to My Fonts:

Appliqué

Fonts for use with appliqué fabrics.

Children

Child–themed and "cute" fonts such as fonts similar to children’s writing and animal fonts.

Display

Decorative fonts using specialty and pattern fills, often used in large sizes.

Effects

Fonts using special thread colors and needles such as needle felting, twin needle and wing needle.

Elegant

Stylish fonts with a heritage feeling, such as gothic and illuminated alphabets.

Floral

Fonts with leaves and flowers decorating the letters.

Foam

Fonts for use with puffy foam for a raised 3D effect.

Fun

Informal fonts, such as athletic or party fonts.

Future

Informal fonts with a hi-tech theme.

Modern

Fonts with 'clean' designs in modern styles.

Monogram

These fonts have most characters of equal width, designed for use in monograms. They are all uppercase only.

My Fonts

My Fonts is the default category for fonts you create.

National

Fonts associated with particular cultures, or alternative alphabets such as Greek and Hebrew.

Nearest Point

Nearest point fonts use special logic to determine the best way to join characters together. There are four versions of each character to enable the special joining method. Nearest Point fonts are ideally used with Running Stitch connection.

Retro

Classic Art Nouveau and Art Deco style fonts.

Scary

Informal fonts with a spooky or horror theme.

Script

Script fonts have a special joining method where all adjacent lowercase characters are directly joined together and are not affected by the Gap setting. This is used to give an appearance of handwriting in different styles.

Traditional

Old-fashioned fonts.

Wild West

Informal fonts with a cowboy theme.

 

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Entering Letters

Lettering Shapes

Letter Properties

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Line Formatting

Appliqué, Effects and Foam Fonts