InkStitch - lettering

Objectives

• Create letters with the lettering module
• Adjust size of the generated digitized text
• Manipulate letters

Prerequisites

• Inkscape
• InkStitch - basic use‎‎
• InkStitch - satin columns

See also

• Computerized embroidery

• Quality: draft

• Difficulty: intermediate

Introduction

Lettering is probably the most popular stitching activity for beginning home users. As of Spring 2019, Ink/Stich does include a simple digitized font available under lettering in the Ink/Stich menu.

Most embroidery machines do include some lettering facilities and all serious embroidery packages include a lettering module. As of Spring 2019, there is only one included lettering font, but that should change in the future.

In addition, InkStitch allows - like a professional embroidery program - creating letters from SVG fonts. See the next two articles, i.e. InkStitch - design letters and InkStitch - Geneva-simple typefaces

The lettering module

For Ink/Stitch 1.25 (Mai 2019)

To create letters

• Menu Extensions -> Ink/Stitch -> Lettering
• Type your text in the popup menu
• Apply and Quit

Lettering with Ink/Stitch 1.25

You now can see a group of letters. Each letter is also a group. Open Menu Objects -> Objects to check this.

Adjusting letter size

By default, the letters produced are rather big, i.e. a capital letter is about 20mm high (font size 79pt bold). You can probably safely scale this down by 50%, e.g. use a letter size of 10mm.

• Menu Object->Transform
• Scale tab
• Tick Scale proportionally
• Scale to 50%

Reduce size of lettering with Ink/Stitch 1.25

Manipulate letters

Since the generated letters are just ordinary SVG objects with Ink/Stitch satin stitch annotations, you can do anything you like with these objects. E.g. manipulate individual letters by making them fatter or having them follow a curve.