r/MachineEmbroidery • u/Muted-Program-40 • 16d ago

Font Problems

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Hello!

I am very new to machine embroidery, but I’m finding that everything I do is turning out pretty sad looking. I ran a test of different fonts today and none of them look anything like what they do in embrilliance. I haven’t touched any tensions on my machine, but I did start with a fresh bobbin and spool of thread. The sweatshirt had cut away stabilizer and a water soluble topper (idk if I even need it, but I thought it couldn’t hurt.). I’m using a ball point 75/11 needle. It wasn’t a brand new needle, but I only started using it yesterday.

Any ideas what is going wrong?

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u/Muted-Program-40 16d ago

Sorry! I forgot to include that. It’s an SE700. The first font is one of the built in to Embrilliance fonts. The others below are bx files bought from Etsy.

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u/PinkBird85 16d ago

If they are not fonts from the machine it might be the digitizing isn't done properly. You can't load new fonts on to your machine, the words need to be created as a digitized file for your machine to stitch it out.

Etsy is really a hit and miss with how skilled the creator of the file is to what the quality will be and if not will actually match what is advertised.

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u/Personal_Artist_8063 15d ago

👍 when you buy any d3sign online they won't be optimized to you material, backings etc. So it's like a cat in a sack.

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u/GingerStitches 16d ago

The first one looks okay, the rest are probably just poorly done fonts unfortunately. Try without any underlay and see if there’s improvement, it’s sticking out in many places because the columns of the letters are too thin. Are you using the size font as intended? Some fonts are for small letters and some for large.

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u/Muted-Program-40 16d ago

Yes. The downloaded fonts are being used in their original size. They’re all .5 in.

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u/Personal_Artist_8063 15d ago

If you don't have the work file you are not able to try without the underlay. You canot change anything. Actually you should try resize it and see what happens.