Why is it that so many embroidery companies struggle to produce good quality embroidered lettering at small sizes . . . . when others do it so easily?
There are a number of factors including:
Quality of machineThread quality and needle sizeFabric and backing typeAll of the above can and do have a profound effect upon quality but we mustn't forget the embroidery software used and the embroidery fonts themseleves.
Training and experience are also important but even with training and experience there is only so much that can be done if you don't have expertly digitised fonts.
I've yet to see a low priced embroidery program that does a good job on lettering (especially at the small sizes that are so often required in commercial embroidery).
You see it's much, much easier to produce large embroidered letters that look good than it is to produce small sizes. The difference in quality between large and small sizes becomes magnified when working with T-shirts, Polo shirts and other knitted fabrics like school jumpers.
Why di we choose to create fonts for Wilcom and not other embroidery programs?
The short answer is: Wilcom's user refined font capabilities. By manually digitizing every character, number and all the punctuation we knew exactly how each letter would perform.
It's more than simply digitizing each letter
We then manually adjusted all of the character spacing values (kerning) so that when you enter text, the spacing will be optimised for you so you don't have to waste valuable time manually moving characters closer to one another or further apart.
Why do fonts like ES Block work so well at small sizes?
We then took it to an even higher level by creating 'User Refined' versions of some fonts. User refined fonts are even more powerful and more flexible.
The power and speed of a user refined font comes from having multiple versions of many characters. Each version has been digitized to produce the best result within a defined size range.
When you change the height of the letter, Wilcom replaces each character with another version which has been optimised for use at the new size.
It happens in the blink of an eye. In fact if you don't know what to look for, you might not even know that it has happened . . . . . . . but you will see the improved result when you stitch out the design.
That's the power of ES Fonts for Wilcom
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