InkStitch - lettering

Machine embroidery

Module: InkStitch
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⚐ draft | ☸ intermediate
⚒ 2019/10/02 | ⚒⚒ 2018/06/05
Prerequisite(s)

* Inkscape
* InkStitch - basic use‎‎
* InkStitch - satin columns

Objectives

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

See also

* Computerized embroidery

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

## Contents

* 1 Introduction
* 2 The lettering module
* 2.1 To create letters
* 2.2 Adjusting letter size
* 2.3 Manipulate letters

## Introduction[edit | edit source]

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

See also the InkStitch - embroidery patch tutorial. It explains how to create rounded text from either simple text with fills or from digitized fonts as described here.

## The lettering module[edit | edit source]

For Ink/Stitch 1.25 (Mai 2019). Version 1.26 allows selecting from several fonts now and also transform the size (i.e. instructions below need some updating)

### To create letters[edit | edit source]

* 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[edit | edit source]

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[edit | edit source]

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. To do this, please have a look on the InkStitch - embroidery patch (section 4).