- Serif Font - size is about 10x10. A serif font in all caps
- Double lined straight edges - size also about10x10, all caps
- Simple Block letters - Simple, rectangular, all caps and about 10 sts tall.
- Greek Letters - about 10x10. Want to make something for a frat boy?
- Hebrew Alefbet - about 13x10ish
- Lowercase alphabet - large block letters
- Old English Letters - Caps and lowercase
- Times new roman alphabet - about 15 sts high, both caps and lowercase
- Block letters, numbers and punctuation - 9 sts tall, lowercase and caps
- Fair Isle two color knitting charts - showing both the knit and purl sides of the charts - (block letters)
- Checkered Alphabet - These letters are bigger, but embellished with little checker details. The most ornate so far.
- Stenciled chart - over 30x30 Very blocky
- Lowercase Times knitting chart - about 10x10
- Celtic alphabet generator - Enter in the phrase you want, and the pattern will spit out! approx 15x15. This feature is fantastic, you do not have to figure it out on your own.
- Small alphabet (charts are located at the bottom of the page after the pattern) - also contains the words for Peace in Hebrew and greek letters. letters are 5 sts high.
- ABC - block letters, 6 sts high
- BIG letters - bigger than you would want to use to trim something (these are more like dishcloths), but you could make a fun baby blanket with these large letters. (there is also no chart, there are row by row instructions.)
- 7 row alphabet - see the bottom of the page for the chart.
- Fancy Alphabet - they have an old English feel. 13 sts high
- Alphabet for cash - Here are many charts that could be used for knitting. If you only need ABC, then this would work for free... but otherwise the charts are $8-10.
- Elongated letters chart - 20+ sts high,
- Thick caps - slightly itallic looking. 7 sts high. These are really cool looking!
- Script alphabet - about 8 sts high
- Block letters - 9 sts high. Very thin and bold.
- Typewriter font - lower and upper case, about 10 sts high, 5 sts wide
- Also typewriter like - lowercase, with numbers
- Fancy - 9 sts high
- Script lowercase
- BOLD - like the big letters at the beginning of a book chapter. about 10x10
- Bold upper and lowercase
- Upper and lowercase print - square shape
- Another bold upper and lower case variation
- Bold lowercase - 5-8 sts high
- Square block - 8 sts high
- Slightly script upper case block
- Very bold (lines 5 sts thick in some places) uppercase. 10 sts high and at least 10 sts wide
- Alphabet with some checkers in the letters
- Calligraphy caps - 11 sts high x >10 wide
- Tall and thin - 12 sts high
- Another blocky shape - not square
- Print on a slight diagonal - lowercase
Tuesday, August 11, 2009
Assembly of Alphabet Charts
I have included the approximate letter size for some of the patterns (towards the end, when I hit the jackpot, I did not do as much counting.) This should make it easier to choose my favorite!
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This is sooooooooo helpful! Thanks!
ReplyDeletewow! was looking for some letter charts and came across this extremely helpful post! thanks so much for taking the time to put this together.
ReplyDeleteThanks a lot - will use many of them!
ReplyDeleteLove the Times New Roman font. Thanks a million for posting these.
ReplyDeleteThank you so much for this collection! it's awesome!
ReplyDeleteYou're welcome! Many of these searches start out as things that I need for my own projects. I then realized that others could use the lists as well :)
ReplyDeleteThank you soooooo much for this post , was on the computer for 2 hours looking for the perfect letter chart and you put it here and more , again I thank you .
DeleteIt was so helpful finding this list, thank you!!
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ReplyDeleteI love the information you have here, and just to add some 'light reading' I just came across an antique pattern library with various needlework references, some including alphabets (I've only gone down to the B's, but found ArteEDiletto and BrownFiletCrochet both with alphabets)and just a multitude of beautiful patterns: http://www.antiquepatternlibrary.org/completelist.htm
ReplyDeleteThank you for sharing that with me. It looks like something I'll have to check out.
ReplyDeleteOh, I found another with some lovely Celtic style letters! http://www.dragonbear.com/dp/dp01.html
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ReplyDeleteI'm always happy to help, Penelope!
ReplyDeleteThank you so much!!! Exactly what I was needing!!
ReplyDeleteYou're very welcome, Janice!
ReplyDeleteThis is fantastic! Thank you so much! Noelle x
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ReplyDeleteFrom one biochemist to another...thank you for very valuable research! You have done an amazing job collecting this information, and saved us all a lot of time and anguish.
ReplyDeleteThank you so much, Rebecca, for creating this list! I have come back to it over and over again since first finding it. You've saved me many hours of searching and I appreciate it!
ReplyDeleteI'm so happy that I could help! Thanks for coming back over and over.
DeleteThanks so much for this! It's nice not to have to reinvent the wheel sometimes :D
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