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Foreveroctober,
Welcome! Smile
The problem isn't with fonts being allowed or disallowed. What's happening is you're taking a font that's been made into an image and that image is being turned into a grid.
So if you're using a font that contains thick and thin lines, the thin lines may not be well represented when changed into a grid.
Also, one of the best things to do if you're designing an image to be used as a pattern is to make the cleanest image you possibly can, generated as a .gif or a .png file, where pixels = stitches. So if you're trying to make a piece that's 100x100 stitches, you'd ideally want to make your image 100x100 pixels.
The freePatternWizard isn't actually a graphics program, so if you give it a very large image with the idea of creating a very small pattern, it will do its best, but it will be forced to pick what to keep, and that may not be what you'd want it to keep. This is why it's best to give it exactly the size of image in pixels that you want in stitches.
The best fonts of all for such an endeavor would be uniform thickness. If you can find a font where the thin lines wouldn't tend to get lost, that would also work.
It's not impossible and I've seen fonts that do work well, just that not all fonts are created equal, so looking at it from a standpoint of what will translate well to a grid is very helpful to determine if a font will ultimately give an optimal result. Smile


Also...

I will also continue to work through some bug fixes and begin adding some new things.

A few intermittent problems regarding black and white colors are being addressed first.  I made a couple changes and found two more related issues which are being addressed.  I had hoped to get the first update enabled by now but with the two other issues, it will be just a bit longer.

Rest assured we're continuing to make fixes and updates while the Covid-19 has us locked down here in Illinois.

We'll keep you posted and you'll see update notices at the top of the freePatternWizard page as they come live.

Again, we wish you all the best of health.

Terry

hello, my name is dobugstitches (feel free to follow me on instagram! Smiley ) dobug is a childhood nickname given to me by my parents because of my big brown eyes. I am 7 months into cross stitching and it all started when I became a new mommy needed a hobby during my maternith leave. Now I cross stitch during my office job. I am currently working on a Harry Potter character series and hope you come check it out on my insta. NIce to meet you all! 

Neave,

Now that's justice!  Kiss  Serves the idiot right.  He couldn't possibly have had a good reason for doing what he did.

yeah i know what you mean quiet anniversary celebrations are just about the 2 people and no one else

our family birthday's in month order:
my mom in law yvonne's 1st jan
riley 2nd feb
tweedle dumb (adam) 10th march ugh lol
char 14th march
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shay and me 10th oct
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