There is a lot of confusion about font size and memory use. Embrilliance is different from what most IT-familiar people will have experienced. A cache of over a thousand fonts in Embrilliance may be 15Mb. Not Gb. Not Tb. Just megabytes. Font files are not large. Native fonts are fairly small, as they don’t contain stitch data. For example, the largest of the Embrilliance Christmas fonts is 138k. Imported fonts, which do contain the stitches from the original digitizer run from typically 40k – 140k and the biggest we observe may be 300k.
You do not need to offload fonts to the cloud or any similar space-saving measure.
If your PC/Mac can run, then you will not need more memory or storage for fonts.
One of our development systems has well over a thousand fonts and the storage is still only around 100Mb. That means roughly 10,000 fonts would only consume 1Gb of hard-drive space. In a world that measures hard-drive space in terrabytes (Tb) then 1Tb would hold about a million embroidery fonts. That’s likely more than have ever been, or ever will be, created.
Another thing to consider is that when the program loads, it only FINDS the fonts. It does not have them all fully in memory. Only the fonts in use in designs are fully loaded. This means that you can have thousands of fonts and the entire Platform may still only consume 100-200Mb of RAM. Again, NOT Gb: Mb. This means you do not need extra RAM for more fonts or Embrilliance in general. If your computer can turn on, you have plenty of RAM.
Similarly, many gamers need high-end graphics cards. When Embrilliance was designed, it had to operate on rather lowly systems, such as XP or Mac with integrated graphics. There is no use for a high-end graphics system with Embrilliance. Save your money unless you’re a gamer or graphics professional.
This is all good news for those of you who collect fonts: Go ahead.
Do not advise anyone to expand storage or RAM to do so. It just isn’t necessary.