What do you get when you cross retro fonts with classic shaped layouts and the most powerful text-warping envelope system in machine embroidery? We’ve decided to call it ACE-1: The Rewind. This collection includes 6 hand-crafted fonts made specifically for warping and a whopping 316 ready-to-use envelope layouts waiting for your names, quips, titles, and text! With so many editable and amazing layouts, the project possibilities are endless!

The fonts and templates included in ACE-1: The Rewind work with any Embrillance Platform program, even the free ‘Express’ Mode!

ACE Fonts

This all-new collection of specialized fonts and envelope text layouts is the first release of a new type of embroidery font unique to the Embrilliance Platform, ACE Fonts. You may already know that envelopes are shapes that combine with lettering objects, warping the lettering to fit their shape. ACE Fonts are specifically made to make this warping look its best. ACE stands for All-Caps Envelope; this means that ACE Fonts are all capital letters, created specifically without the ascenders and descenders that make fonts pull away from the top and bottom lines of envelope shapes. ACE Fonts even have additional control points built-in to let them hug the top and bottom line of any Embrilliance text envelope, enhancing tracking even with considerably complicated shapes.

Easy to Use Templates

ACE-1: The Rewind comes with over 300 templates specifically made for use with ACE Fonts, categorized by their shape and the number of text lines they can accommodate. To utilize your templates, simply click the Merge Design icon in your toolbar. Then, select ‘Embrilliance: ACE: The Rewind” under Catalog in the upper left hand corner of your Library dialog box. Once you see the ACE-1: The Rewind library, click the category you’d like to use in the selector at the left, then the select the template/s you want to use on the right. Click the ‘OK’ button at the upper right, and the template will appear on your design page.

Once your template appears, you’ll see that it is populated with example text. Simply select the text you want to change in the Objects tree to the right of the design page, then replace the text with your own in the Text entry area of the ‘Properties’ tab at the bottom right and hit the enter key. Immediately, you’ll see the text snap back into the template shape. From the Properties tab, you can select any ACE font, change colors, and change stitch parameters as you would with any native Embrilliance fonts.

NOTE: These templates will accept any embroidery font installed in the Embrilliance Platform, but you must own Embrilliance Essentials to use envelopes with stitch-based BX fonts. Native fonts that aren’t ACE fonts will also work, but those with variations in height or ascenders and descenders won’t ‘hug the lines’ like the included ACE Fonts.

Stackable Templates

The ‘Stackable’ category of templates allows you to create stacks of envelopes to include as many lines as you can safely fit in your hoop! Stackables differ from the other templates in that you will need to select multiple template designs and arrange them to fit together manually. Each ‘Stackable’ is labeled with a style name to help you select only the designs that belong in the same stack. Simply select the top, lines, and bottom layers that fit together to make up your stack. There are different tops and bottoms for each stack to let you start or end with either middle line shape as you stack your design.

Included in the Stackable set are also 2 endlessly stackable waves and multiple arches and bridges made to fit over and around other circular and oval templates or, if you have Embrilliance Essentials, existing circular designs. For those, you simply need to place, scale, and align with your circular or oval elements!

Endlessly Customizable

These templates can be combined endlessly! Place them together to build your own custom layouts. As long as you make sure you never split your envelopes and lettering objects, you can create any configuration. Each envelope has a number in its name, shown on the object tree to the right of the design page. You’ll notice that the first lettering object under an envelope with the same number is the one that fills up that shape. Keep them together and in order, and your multi-template layout will work as expected, even if other templates with the same numbers are on the design page.

ACE-1: The Rewind is all about having fun! Change more than just the text. Create ombre color gradients and wild color schemes, use different fonts on each line, make custom contour and classic patches with the tools in Merrowly Patches (not included). Add a circular text layout to a key-tag design from your collection, or combine the templates with your favorite logo or design with Embrilliance Essentials.

Everything Fits

Whether you are personalizing with the name of someone you care for, representing your team, school, church, band, or club, expressing your humor with a funny saying, or lifting people up with something inspirational, you’ve got something that’s a perfect fit for ACE-1: The Rewind. Better yet, even if it’s not, our templates will make almost anything fit your retro style.