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Notes from the workbench.

Shorter pieces: what real files taught us, format oddities we hit, and product changes.

• September 26, 2026 · 2 min

  Satin density: the number we measured instead of quoting

  Digitising manuals give satin densities that differ by a factor of two because they count differently. We measured commercial designs and set the lettering tool to match.

• September 12, 2026 · 3 min

  What 226 real embroidery files taught us before launch

  We parsed 226 designs against a reference library before shipping the viewer: what disagreed, where the reference itself was wrong, and what it changed in the tools.