For example, choose fonts under public domain or Open Font License. The license terms must be strictly adhered to. In particular, if the file is to be published for use with Ink/Stitch. “Free” does not mean that you can do anything with it. It is therefore important to carefully review the required permissions. Especially the baseline will be important in order to use the font with Ink/Stitch.įonts are copyrighted, as are images or embroidery files. Each layer has to follow a precise pattern. Using Fontforge will make it easy for us to define the kerning (distances between letters) later.Ī SVG font contains a layer for each glyph. It would be possible to create a completely new font with the svg font editor tool offered by Inkscape. This article wil not explain how to digitize single letters, but how to create a font to be used in the lettering tool of Ink/Stitch. Here you will find a shortened and slightly altered version of her text in english translation. Cleanup the SVG Font File wrote an excellent article about the creation of new fonts for Ink/Stitch in her blog: Inkstitch : Créer une police de caractères brodés

How to install fonts for inkscape