Six on one hand, half of dozen on the other one....****

no difference :o) *

SAME TING :) (old chinese saying)

Alphabets are 'scalable' designs provided by Embroidery machine manufacturers and Embird.
You just select the letters you want from within your machine, change the size to what you want and start stitching.

Fonts are individual designs that are not scalable and you need to select and line up each letter separately (using a software program) to create the words you want in your design.

'Fonts' in the IT industry and business world also refers to the STYLE of the letter used to create text. (nothing to do with embroidery)

Clear as mud!!!!
Hugs n roses, Meganne

In addition to the other comments, I always thought an alphabet referred to A-Z, and a font was the individual letter. BUT what do I know?

Ok, the old advertising print specifier will weigh in on this, hee hee hee. Technically, a font is a specific typeface used in printing. If you look in your Word programs, which probably all default to Times New Roman, that's a font. A font of any style can be digitized for your sewing machine, then it becomes an alphabet, because you can make names or whatever with it. Generally, I think of an alphabet as Meganne described it, either in your machine or in your software, just spell the words and sew. When a font is made into individual letters, like we collect on Cute Alphabets, then those are actually monograms, technically. It's an alphabet, true, but pretty hard to make a name or something out of most of them, they're meant to be used as a stand-alone letter. The Goldfont on Cute is both upper and lower case, and could more easily be used as an alphabet. There, have I totally confused the issue now? Hee hee hee, Marji

Some good articles I found on the net:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Font
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alphabet
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monogram

don't know for sure but I thought Alphabet always means the letters from A till zZ. and fonts are the kind of letters ( lettertypes) used to form the alfabet.

What a great question....flowers for all
Darmoola