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Select desired font category and font name from the drop-down list. Alt, L, F |
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Appliqué Fonts for use with appliqué fabrics. |
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Children Child–themed and "cute" fonts such as fonts similar to children’s writing and animal fonts. |
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Display Decorative fonts using specialty and pattern fills, often used in large sizes. |
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Effects Fonts using special thread colors and needles, such as needle felting, twin needle and wing needle. |
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Elegant Stylish fonts with a heritage feeling, such as gothic and illuminated alphabets. |
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Floral Fonts with leaves and flowers decorating the letters. |
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Foam Fonts for use with puffy foam for a raised 3D effect. |
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Fun Informal fonts, such as athletic or party fonts. |
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Future Informal fonts with a hi-tech theme. |
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Modern Fonts with 'clean' designs in modern styles. |
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Monogram These fonts have most characters of equal width, designed for use in monograms. They are all upper case only. |
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My Fonts My Fonts is the default category for fonts you create. |
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National Fonts associated with particular cultures, or alternative alphabets such as Greek and Hebrew. |
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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. |
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Retro Classic Art Nouveau and Art Deco style fonts. |
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Scary Informal fonts with a spooky or horror theme. |
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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. |
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Traditional Old-fashioned fonts. |
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Wild West Informal fonts with a cowboy theme. |
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Search for fonts and to arrange, rename, create, duplicate and delete user fonts. Alt, L, M |
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Letters |
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Click in the Letters box and enter the desired characters. Press Enter to create more than one line of text. |
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Enter the Size in millimeters, from 3mm to 200mm. This is the height of the uppercase 'A' character in the font, and all other characters are sized in proportion to this. Alt, L, S |
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Layout |
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Set the relative width and height, and the gap between the letters. Gap: Alt, L, G; Width: Alt, L, W; Height: Alt, L, H |
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Lettering Shapes |
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Select a shape for your lettering. Alt, L, T |
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Place lines of lettering in straight lines. |
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Place lines of lettering in straight vertical lines. |
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Place one line of lettering clockwise around a circle. |
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Place one line of lettering counter-clockwise around a circle. |
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Place two lines of text on opposite sides of a circle. |
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Place one line of lettering along a straight line. |
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Place one line of lettering along a curved line. |
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Place lettering in an envelope with an outwardly curving top and base. |
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Place lines of lettering in a shape with an inwardly curving top and base. |
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Place lines of lettering in a diamond shape. |
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Place lines of lettering in a shape that is slanted. |
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Place lettering in a fully adjustable straight envelope. |
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Place lettering in a curving envelope with 8 handles. |
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Place lettering in a fully adjustable curved envelope with 14 handles. |
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Place lines of lettering in a shape with an outwardly curving top and an inwardly curving base. |
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Place lines of lettering in a shape with an inwardly curving top and an outwardly curving base. |
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Place lettering in an envelope with an outwardly curving top and an inwardly curving base. |
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Place lettering in an envelope with an inwardly curving top and an outwardly curving base. |
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Place lines of lettering in a shape that is larger on the right side. |
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Place lines of lettering in a shape that is larger on the left side. |
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Place lines of lettering in a shape that is narrower at the top. |
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Place lines of lettering in a shape with a flat top and an outwardly curving base. |
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Place lines of lettering in a shape with a flat top and an inwardly curving base. |
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Place lettering in an envelope with a flat base and an outwardly curving top. |
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Place lines of lettering in a shape with a flat base and an inwardly curving top. |
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Place lettering in a octagonal envelope. |
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Place lettering in angled line envelope. |
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Place lettering in a peaked envelope. |
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Place lettering in a curved slopingenvelope. |
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Place lettering in a straight sided envelope with 8 handles. |
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Place lettering in an envelope with 7 handles. |
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Place lettering in a sloping rectangular envelope. |
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Place lettering in an envelope with a peaked top, a straight base, and sloping sides. |
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Place lettering in an envelope with a curved top, a straight base, and sloping sides. |
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Place lettering in an envelope with a peaked top and an arched base. |
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Select Reverse so it is checked to reverse the order of letters entered in the Letters box. Alt, L, YR |
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Select Individual so you can move and resize the letters individually. Alt, L, YI |
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Select Step so it is checked to rotate the letters independently from the angle of the line for Fit To Straight Line or Fit To Wavy Line. Alt, L, YS |
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Stitches |
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The connection method selects how the characters are joined together. Alt, L, C |
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The letters are joined with movement stitches. Alt, L, CT |
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The letters are joined with small stitches. Alt, L, CR |
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Reduce the lettering to the minimum number of color blocks. It is recommended to use the ColorSort checkbox unless you wish to vary the colors of specific characters. Alt, L, O |
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Alter the appearance of the stitching used in the lettering. Alt, L, I |
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Line Formatting |
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Align text to the left. Alt, L, LL |
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Align text in the center. Alt, L, LC |
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Align text to the right. Alt, L, LR |
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Spacing |
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Change the distance between multiple lines of text. Alt, L, LS |
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Apply |
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Place the lettering in the work area. Alt, L, A |
