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What are some good fonts for knitting words into a sweater?

I'm knitting a baby cardigan with the baby's name on the back. I can knit it in using either intarsia or fairisle method, but I'm wondering if there are any fonts that are easy to create a knitting chart from, that aren't too blocky and still have some style to them. Does anyone have any experience with this?

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1. You can use counted cross stitch patterns for this. Here are lots of free pages at: http://crossstitch.about.com/od/patternsfromyourguide/ig/Alphabets-/Lowercase-BStitch-Alphabet.htm Just click on each page and maybe you will find what you want.
2. This alphabet chart is less blocky than most: http://knit1mag.com/charts/k1-alphabet-graph-gird.pdf (PDF) But you can do much more delicate letters if you embroider the finished sweater instead.
3. I have often charted my own monograms, etc. The trick is to find knit graph paper. Cross stitch charts and common graph paper are squares, knit stitches are rectangular (short and wide.) If you use a cross stitch chart, it will look like somebody squashed your design down, unless you repeat 1 row for every inch of your design. Knit graph paper accounts for this and is very easy to use. You can even use your own computer fonts and printer to print out a real size template, underlay it on the graph paper and chart the squares. Places that sell knitting machine supplies usually will have knit graph paper.