Need help please, lettering. I am doing up a patch for hubby for work and having trouble what style of lettering and what size it should be. Top line: (lower case) initials of the company 2nd line: company spelled out - this is the one I am having trouble with. I can't seem to find a good type that is legible when typed smaller under the initials of the company. Would anyone have any idea of what style lettering is great for smaller text? Thank you very much for your help.

Thank you so much for all the help with this. I plan on working on this the next few days as my time allows me to. As soon as I get it to where I like it I'll post a pic of it - or if I still have problems I'll post a pic so that you might be able to tell me what I am doing wrong. Thanks again, much appreciated. :)

Small lettering is a pain, if it is just too small I will often advise a company to leave the tag line off their embroidery, but to achieve what you want I would start with a very basic font like arial or arial narrow or calabri. then as sew doctor has advised reduce the density of the smaller letters usually your density would be 4.0 make it 4.5, also reduce the pull compensation so if you have a standard pull comp of 4.0 make it 2. Just play around till you get the results you want. I can get lettering in my software to 2.5p but I don't like to make it that small I usually don't go under 5.0 I hope that all makes sense.

Make sure you lower the density on the small text, almost to where it looks sparse in the software. I use embird font engine, and when I do the labels, I use a density of 7 (higher number is lower density) the default is 4 to give you an idea.

I understand what you mean. Does your software or your machine state the size you can make them in? 5D for instance gives recommended setting like 6-15 mm or 15-50 mm and although you can override those to some extent making them too small is never a good idea.
For small lettering I use a simple 'sans serif' (which has no small extensions).
In the example I used Times 15-50mm set at 20 mm for the AB, and for company Narrow Block 6-10 mm set at 6 mm.

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by mops 14 Mar 2012

sorry, did the topline in uppercase, but principle is the same.

by lawmedassistant 14 Mar 2012

Thank you, I'll give that a shot. Not sure what all I have tried at this point - I just know it's driving me crazy. Where my hubby works all the guys have to buy there own patches so I thought if I could come up with one similar to what they have and offer at lower cost I might be on to something here. I don't think they all have the same looking one either - with me they could all look alike (if I can master this that is). lol Thanks bunches - work on it again tomorrow - babysitting grandsons today so not home with my program.

well if it were me the top line should be noticed more than the rest as this is what will catch the "EYE" first! but whatever your going for good luck!

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by lawmedassistant 14 Mar 2012

Thanks, but I might have explained it wrong. So sorry for the confusion. Top line will be bigger, I'm having trouble spelling out the company name in the smaller lettering - it comes out unlegible.... I've going bonkers. lol