Mary, if your machine will do names, I would try that first, some machines have quite a number of fonts programed into them, and it will give you an idea of how a font works. Then decide if you want/need to buy software. Hugs and flowers to you sweetie.
I don't know if you see my kids' bath towels I posted them here. Somebody in the sewforum digitized it for me and they are great, if you want that style, tell me and I give you the person's name.
What kind of software do you have for the use of your machine? Let us start at the beginning so we know how to help - what kind of embroidery machine do you have? Does it have the ability to stitch names? Most embroidery machines have built in letters and you can do your names with that - if you don't have software at this time. Let us help you. *4U
i have a brother he-120 ped basic it can do names but not very big said name to big so it came out really small> *4u
Sometimes there is more than one setting that you can change to alter the size, I'm not familiar with your machine, so can't advise what they might be. Hugs and flowers.
I am not sure but I think that any program to digitize can be use to digitize names and fonts. For example Embird, I heard that cutiepie said that is not expensive and easy to use. Flower and XoXo