Fonts and your thread drawer

Fonts

Broidry includes a library of real embroidery fonts, and every preview a customer sees is drawn from the actual stitch files, not a lookalike computer font. What the customer previews is what your machine stitches.

Fonts that stitch in more than one thread color work in the Mockup Studio too — the preview draws every color, and you can even give each letter its own thread.

You can upload the embroidery fonts you own: a ZIP of the per-letter stitch files, or the PES letter files directly. Every uploaded font is checked letter by letter, the same as the built-in library, so a font with a damaged letter is caught before a customer ever previews it.

If a font you bought only came as a .bx file — the format that opens inside Embrilliance — you can still get it in. The guide called Use a .bx font in Broidry walks through it: you type the alphabet once in the free Embrilliance Express, save one file, and Broidry builds the font from it.

Where embroidery fonts come from

Embroidery fonts are not the fonts on your computer. A real embroidery font is a set of pre-digitized stitch files, one per letter, made to be sewn — usually sold as digital files with an extension like .pes or .bx — that extension tells your embroidery software or machine how to read the stitches, so check the file type matches what your machine needs before you buy. A computer font stretched into stitches by software is where most bad lettering comes from.

If you are new: you buy embroidery fonts, and they are not expensive. Most run somewhere between ten and forty dollars, you own them forever, and a handful of good ones covers almost every order. Well-known shops embroiderers buy from include Designs by JuJu, Embroidery Legacy, and Herrington Design — search for the style you want plus the words embroidery font.

Before you buy, check two things: that the font comes in sizes near what you stitch (a font digitized at three inches does not shrink to half an inch cleanly), and that the license allows selling finished items, which nearly all of them do.

The thread drawer

The Supplies area holds your thread drawer: the spools you actually own, by brand and number, each marked on hand, running low, or out. Add spools from the built-in brand charts or type in any brand you use.

The drawer feeds everything else. Mockup thread swatches come from it, customer previews use it, and the reorder list shows you exactly which numbers to buy when something runs low.