Wilcom's industry leading 21L Lettering system allows you to add lettering to your existing embroidery designs or create new lettering-only designs. With Wilcom's renowned stitch quality and powerful lettering, you can have confidence in the performance of Wilcom ES 9, 21L Lettering. Alphabets - Easy as A, B, C... Wilcom has always been the leader in stylish and professional fonts. ES 9 has over 25 new fonts to choose from totaling over 120 alphabets. With specially designed small-lettering fonts, creative lettering has never been so easy! Apply formatting, such as italics and justification, just like a word processor, as well as various stitch types ?Satin, Tatami, or Zigzag. Preview on screen over 120 Wilcom Alphabets Feature Focus : Using the lettering Dialogue Box In the Lettering Dialog, type your words, then select your font. With Preview in drop-down list selected, a preview of your words in the font you selected is available. Preview your actual text not just sample letters Creative Baselines and Envelopes enhance any lettering design Add that creative touch Wilcom's advanced Envelope option lets you stretch lettering into eye-catching shapes, such as bridges and diamonds. Create dazzling effects quickly & easily with Creative Baselines. Curve lettering to wrap around your design with high quality & professional results. Place lettering on a standard horizontal or vertical baseline, or shape lettering around a circle, arc or any digitized shape. Reshape, Reorder, Recolor Reshape individual letters to suit your design, while retaining the original lettering properties. Sequence options, such as Center Out and Letter-by-letter, ensure stitching quality. Recoloring your work is also easy, right down to individual letters! In fact, whatever you need to do with lettering ?Wilcom can help! Complete control of your lettering enables crisp, clear results Complete Column Width control Advanced Column Width settings allow you to increase or decrease the thickness of a lettering object. (W flashes between Increased Column Width setting and Negative Column width setting) Be a Team Leader! Do you dread those orders of 30 garments with 30 different names under each logo? Don't waste hours individually digitizing all the names for uniforms and caps ?with Wilcom's amazing Team Names feature, it's all done for you with a click of a button. Enter the names you require in the Team Names Create list then position the Team Names lettering object in the original design. This important list of names remains permanently embedded into the .EMB embroidery design file. Team Names make customization more efficient Once you are ready to sew the designs, simply save the .EMB design file to a machine stitch file, and Wilcom will automatically create the design with Team Name lettering for you. Lettering Auto-Frame Team Name Individual Height Lettering Auto-Frame & Team Name Individual Height Force lettering to fit within a user defined area, or frame, with Lettering Auto-Frame. Select from a number of options including; reduce lettering space, width and size. Individual heights for Team Name lettering can now be applied in Wilcom ES 9. Create a different height for Name 1, Name 2 and Name 3. Feature Focus : Lettering Auto-Frame Lettering Auto-Frame will force a lettering object to fit within a user-defined area, or frame. Ideal for embroidery badge or patches where a group of different lettering objects, such as peoples names, must fit in a standard size area. With every name contain a different number of characters, their length will vary.   By applying Lettering Auto-Frame, the lettering object will either: Reduce lettering spacing Reduce width Reduce size proportionally Reduce lettering spacing and width Reduce lettering spacing and size proportionally 21L Lettering Facts Over 120 alphabets 17 built-in layout and sequence options Flexibility to reshape lettering 20 specially designed small lettering alphabets Automatic Team Names Slow Redraw to simulate sewing Process whole designs to reduce or increase stitch counts PhotoFlash Design Explorer Major Feature List (Summary Only) 129 Alphabets and Symbols included Create baselines Change letter sewing sequence Scale, rotate, skew and reshape text Envelope-Bridge, Pennant, Perspective, Diamond  NEW  Team Names/Individual Height  NEW  Lettering Auto-Frame  NEW  Lettering preview window  NEW  Automatic conversion    of True Type Fonts  NEW  Photo Flash-now standard Multiple Colorways Print Production Worksheet and Production Summary Direct connect to embroidery machines Read/create embroidery disks or tapes Send designs as attached files in e-mails Export designs as BMP,JPG,PCX Import bitmap drawings-BMP,JPG,PCX View design in TrueView Slow Redraw simulated sewing Scale, rotate and mirror objects on-screen Move and delete stitches with Stitch Edit Manual Stitch Satin, Zigzag,Tatami stitch Automatic Pull Compensation Column Width Automatic Underlay Shortening,Fractional Spacing Edit machine functionsand change machine type Design Explorer   Options for ES21-L Design Workflow Standard Chenille The larger name extrudes the boundary specified by the user The same lettering object with Auto-Frame "Reduce Width" enabled