Violin Serif embroidery font
A pre-digitized satin stitch alphabet — upper and lowercase, drawn at 28mm. Type your text and download a machine file, free.
About Violin Serif
Violin Serif is a condensed serif satin font.
Violin Serif ships as 100 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 28mm cap height. Treat that as the size it looks best at, and scale within roughly half to double it without worrying. Going much smaller than that is where satin columns start dropping below the width a needle and thread can hold cleanly.
What it is good for
Violin Serif reads formally — awards, crests, club and school work. Serifs are small satin columns of their own, so keep the height up or they blur into the stems.
Downloading Violin Serif 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.