gingo200 embroidery font
A pre-digitized satin stitch alphabet — upper and lowercase, drawn at 36mm. Type your text and download a machine file, free.
About gingo200
Gingo 200 is playful satin font with 158 glyphs.
gingo200 ships as 158 pre-digitized glyphs. Each letter is a set of satin columns with its stitch direction, underlay and pull compensation already decided by the person who drew it — the same reason a real embroidery font beats converting a desktop typeface, where the outline is only a shape and something has to guess at the stitching.
What size to stitch it at
The font was digitized at 36mm cap height. Treat that as the size it looks best at, and scale within roughly half to double it without worrying. Script faces are the least forgiving when shrunk, because the joins between letters are the thinnest satin in the design and they are the first thing to break down.
What it is good for
gingo200 suits names, monograms and gift work — anything where handwriting reads warmer than type. Give it room: script letters connect, so cramped spacing turns the joins into a solid bar.
Downloading gingo200 as a stitch file
There is nothing to install. Type your text in the text generator, set the height, arch the baseline if you want a curve, and export. The same design writes to PES (Brother, Baby Lock), DST (Tajima and most industrial machines), JEF and SEW (Janome, Elna), EXP (Melco, Bernina), VP3 (Husqvarna Viking, Pfaff) and XXX (Singer), so you can take the same lettering to whichever machine you are on. If you already have the file in the wrong format, the file converter will re-encode it.