How to Add Fonts to the Lettering Tool in Ink/Stitch | Inkscape & Ink/Stitch Tutorial 7
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- Опубликовано: 15 июл 2024
- Welcome to the 7th tutorial of our Inkscape & Ink/Stitch series. In today’s tutorial, we’re going to be showing you how to add your own custom fonts to the lettering GUI tool in Ink/stitch. Adding fonts to the lettering tool is a long process because you have to digitize every single character, but we’ll show you a few tips we’ve learned to make the process easier for you! I hope you find this video helpful!
⏱TIMESTAMPS⏱
0:00 Intro
0:53 Preparing to Digitize Our Font
8:13 Digitizing Our Letters
16:09 Saving Our Font
20:20 Creating a Preview
23:26 Testing Our Letters
24:20 Outro
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What ive been waiting for i appreciate you both!!!! Thanks great teachers!!!
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you guys are amazing. As I learn to embroider I find myself gravitated toward your videos / or you are the only ones that teach what I want to learn. I do have a question. If I purchase a digitized file from say... etsy... can I download that to ink stich by following the last part of this video? I will pay $2 or $3 to have the hard part done. Can you do a video or update instructions if that is even possible.... I dont have that much time to do every letter, but want to see it in my lettering tool. P.S. I like and share every video :)
Great idea! We will have to look into this, as we haven't tried it before. Thank you so much for your support!
In case anybody actually wants to know `em` as a unit is literally the size of the letter M. You're setting 100 units per M so the size of the M is 100. It's setting units per character size. So you can know if you using 14pt text the M is 14pt high, which is still just 100 units since that's the relationship you set during setup.
Thanks for sharing!
Hello, I'm trying with a ttf font, but if I apply auto-route satin to a manually set path, auto route breaks the order of stitching, despite I had set to preserve the order.
font forge won't open for me. just says "verifying 'font forge' with a status bar that won't move. any ideas? I have xquartz 11 installed, unchecked the box in preferences the first time I opened it.
A Quick Note: UNCHECK "Autoroute satin" when creating the .json. You've done this. If you haven't (and I'd suggest that you do it in the file rather than let the json turn it on) then maybe. But autoroute isn't the best even when creating the font, some tweaking may be needed.
Hello I know this is kind of late, but thank you for this video. Very helpful. i was on inkscape working on a logo trying to do satin letters. If you have the hole alphabet done can you post it would really be grateful.
Hello there! Sorry, we didn’t end up finishing…. We pulled that font for example and as you can see it’s a lot of work digitizing… We recommend only doing this process for a font you will use over and over (we had no such plans).
Thought I'd go ahead and drop the right arrow in the comments to make copy and paste easy "→"
Thanks for the great tutorials, digitizing my first font!
Thanks for that!
@@ProjectAnonymous_Duo Finished digitizing, I picked something complicated for my first, like I do. Going to try to embroider it in the morning.
thank you!
love your tutorials! Im at the end and the letters slope down when I use the lettering tool even though in the original svg they all end at the same place. any ideas?
That’s interesting… Not really sure what’s causing that. If you want you could send us a screenshot at projectannyms@gmail.com
also, whenever I hit auto route lines to satin, it tells me to select at least one satin column. simply frustrating. seems as though nobody else has encountered this issue I'm having.
Hi thx for all your videos, they have helped me so much, I have been following this one and when it comes up with errors it says missing points at Extrema, self intersecting, non integral coordinates, so I end up with save failed and no avg in my folder can you help. :)
i was running into this problem too! I saved the svg file on my desktop folder and didn't get the save failed error.
Love your videos for InkStitch. I've noticed you use a Mac. Are these instructions the same for a PC? I can create my Regular SVG, but I cannot convert the font to layers.
As far as we know they should be, but can't say for sure as we don't use a PC. Here are the details on the Ink/Stitch website: inkstitch.org/tutorials/font-creation/ Thanks for watching!
I followed the steps here and it turned out great, although the font is insanely large for some reason--- Any ideas on how to fix this?
Interesting, not sure... What was your Em size?
You both have been a big help to me. I followed all steps and I'm now at the end and trying to save my front. I've followed the steps but when trying to make a preview it says that The font ' ' has not variants. I'm not sure what it is that I could have done wrong.
I was able to figure it out. Thank you guys again so much!
Glad you were able to figure this out... That error happened to us when we didn't realize you had to save the svg file as a (right arrow).
@@ProjectAnonymous_Duo Do you guys have a video on how to size or scale up a design? My design comes out small.
We don’t have a specific video covering scaling, but if you set up your document properties (discussed in our first Inkscape/Inkstitch tutorial) you can make your design around your hoop size, for ease of scale. However, if you select all your objects in your design and drag a corner out while holding ctrl, your design can be adjusted to the size you want in scale. Hope this helps!
are you able to satin stich fonts that have multiple curves? Or can it only be straight character fonts???
Hi! It is easier to do fonts that have less curves, but it is definitely possible to do any font you want. Thanks for watching!
Hello, what about if I have a letter that it's composed of more parts, for example a "!"? How can I draw and combine the single line?
For letters (symbols) with multiple parts, it's the same process, you'll just have two or more "paths" within the object file. Hope this helps!
HI. commenting again. I have spent countless hours trying to get a custom font digitized to no avail. I get every error, "One or more of the rungs doesn't intersect both rails." "One or more rails crosses itself, and this is not allowed. Please split into multiple satin columns." I have followed your videos exactly about satin stitches exactly, nd also have tried doing the entire outline in one go, then adding rails either during the outline process or after its done. And the only time I can get the params to show me the satin column preview, it's just a blob of stitching what should be the fill even though there is no fill selected, just stroke. what am I doing wrong? I feel as the though with amount of time spent attempting this, I would have been better off paying someone for the digitizing services (even though I do everything myself), satin stitches have been the most complex to figure out (for me). any help is appreciated.
Hi, sorry you’re having issues with creating satin stitches. We haven’t experienced these errors before, but we have a video that will be published on Wednesday going over an easier way to create satin stitches that maybe helpful to you. Thanks for watching!
I do every step and when i press Lettering on my font is says "This font has no available font variant. Please update or remove the font". I try to do this with bulgarian letters. How can i fix it?
We have run into that error before, our fix was adding this arrow “ → ” when saving our file, if you re-watch 16:09 Saving Our Font, we explain it. We hope this helps. Thanks for watching!
I keep getting a "Save Failed" when i try to generate
Hello, is there a way to download and install pre-designed fonts, already stitched and is there some repository on line where could download them?
Not that we know of, however we’ve noticed that each update of ink stitch has come with additional lettering fonts, so make sure you keep your software up to date for the largest selection.
@@ProjectAnonymous_Duo many thanks
Hi, please could you tell me how id add apostrohes etc to the lettering, as I dont seem able to do it, example I need to be able to put a name including the quotation marks such as 'Bob' - but cant do it.
Hi, to add an apostrophe into your lettering font, you’ll want to select it from your wanted font with your other characters in font forge. Then, you can digitize it the same as any other character. Hope this helps!
Once I downloaded FontForge, what is the next step? I clicked on it and it says “fontforge cannot be opened because the developer cannot be verified” when I clicked the TTF font it didn’t open up onto font forge even though i did download it onto my Mac
You'll have to change your settings in Security & Privacy to allow the download to run (because this is not from an Apple developer)
i have tried following for hours, The first two parts of my a make a nice satin stitch, the moment i try the third part of the A or even connecting them it all falls apart. I have tried to restart so many times!!
For the third part of your A, don't connect the bezier lines to the other parts of your A, just slightly overlap them (best to turn the node snapping off). Hope this helps!
@@ProjectAnonymous_Duo thank you so much
How does the arrow translate to PC?
You can copy and paste this arrow: → Thanks for watching!
ok you lost me on making a folder ... ??? EDIT i hvae it opened in font forge BUT when i try to save it , i have no SVG option?
That's interesting, we haven't seen that issue before...
I've followed everythibg in this video, but the last piece of the A wont stitch to the very top. You SPEEDED up the video at the most important part, then you slowed it back down, I was wondering Why?
Make sure your letter pieces don't connect to the nodes of other pieces, you'll notice that we slightly overlap each piece of our letter A, that should help you. As to why we sped up through that process, the focus of this particular tutorial was to cover the steps required to add new fonts to lettering, not necessarily how we turn our font into satin stitches... We understand the process can be confusing, but we had to make cuts in the video to keep it to a reasonable length.
@@ProjectAnonymous_Duo Ooh ok and Thank you, i'll try it again today and see what happens, those rails was sooo confusing at first, but now thanks to you and your Daughter i am getting the hang of it.