InkStitch - design letters

Objectives

• Find and install fonts
• Select the right font
• Digitize fonts

See also

• Computerized embroidery

• Quality: draft

• Difficulty: intermediate

Introduction

Lettering is probably the most popular stitching activity for beginning home users.

Most embroidery machines do include some lettering facilities and all serious embroidery packages include a lettering module. InkStitch does not have a specific lettering module with digitized fonts, but it allows - like a professional embroidery program - creating letters from SVG fonts.

Find and download fonts

Most computers are already filled with many interesting fonts. However, you also can add additional fonts:

E.g. try Google fonts

• Select a font (red cross on top right) or several ones
• At the bottom of the page there is a pull up menu, click on it
• Click on the download arrow (top right)
• Uunzip the zip file
  • Ubuntu: Either select each file and double click, then install in the font manager, or copy to ~/.local/share/fonts
  • Windows: Select all the files and right-click. Select install.