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 I am unsure about alphabets and fonts. My machine has two built in fonts and I type the whole word in and it embroiders it in one go. With alphabets and fonts purchased are they the same or do I have to hoop each letter seperatley. How can I tell what size the alphabets are as is does not say on the webpage.

Ann's Alphabet design pack are separate files for each alphabet packs ,therefore they are totally different from font where you can put all the letters together and create text.If you want to create text using alphabet's then you need to merge files together using your own embroidery software to do to create a name like SUE ,you have to merge 3 files with S,U and E.

Please note that our Alphabet xpress FONT pack are prices much higher than Ann's Alphabet Design Pack.

This is something that confuses many embroiderers.  Let's try to clarify the difference. 

 Fonts that you purchase are designed for use in an embroidery software program such as Alphabet Xpress, Personalize N Stitch or LetterWorks.  You can type in whatever you like, save it in your format and it will embroider out all together.  The initial alignment of the lettering is done for you in the software. 

 Alphabets are like single designs.  Some embroidery machines may call them built-in fonts but in most they are really alphabets. You bring them into your machine one letter at a time to create a word on the screen and manually move them to align them and sew together.  It is just like combining two designs on your machine's screen - you bring in one and then the other.  Most of today's embroidery machines have the capability to combine designs so check your instruction manual if you have not combined designs in your machine before.  Then you can sew the word or phrase out in one hooping.  Purchased alphabets work the same way.

Thanks very much for the information. So what you are saying is, if I use Alphabet Express I can buy 'fonts' that can be downloaded into the program and create my words there.

Hope this is right. On to Alphabet Express.

 Alphabets I save each letter to my clipboard ,my clipboard holds 50 letters or designs, then I paste each one into the program, to form a name or word . Its a pain but there are cool fonts you just can not get other wise. Like a Polka dotted font or my baseball font and my shamrock font. I have 100's