What software are you using to create the Monogram? It's there that you should be able to resize the middle letter so it's larger and when you cut them all at once.

 

Im using signcut pro & inkscape...
Im not really familiar with how to use those programs either...I did it like I was entering text but I was unable to change the size of one without changing the other. What programs do you use? Are these good programs for beginners or is there something simpler or maybe a user manual for them? I would really like for someone who does them to give me tips and pointers also if possible.

 

I'm not familiar with signcut but I'm sure there should be an option to "break apart text" or "convert text to outline" this would let you work with individual letters in your text.

Mike

 

Anyone else familiar with SignCut or InkScape?

 

I am not really familiar with either of those programs but if you seperate the text into three diffrent parts and size them seperately and then realign them as you want them I think that should do it.

 

I've used Inkscape very little, but I can't find ANYWHERE the option to separate text, besides "breaking apart", and that isn't worth the time. It would be quicker to simply type your 3 letters individually, give them the right font and appropriate size, then align [vertical center] and distribute [horizontal centers] them. (key shortcut: Ctrl+Shift+A)

 

what software do you use?

 

I use several programs, but Corel Draw X4 is by far my primary. Flexi Pro and Omega Composer (Gerber) help me out here and there but are more "machine-specific".

Most major programs have the "separate font" option, but as I said I can't find anything in Inkscape unless it's a really different option.

 

This is what I got off Inkscape's website...does this make any sense to you?

Creating text

Inkscape is capable of creating long and complex texts. However, it's also pretty convenient for creating small text objects such as heading, banners, logos, diagram labels and captions, etc. This section is a very basic introduction into Inkscape's text capabilities.
Creating a text object is as simple as switching to the Text tool (F8), clicking somewhere in the document, and typing your text. To change font family, style, size, and alignment, open the Text and Font dialog (Shift+Ctrl+T). That dialog also has a text entry tab where you can edit the selected text object - in some situations, it may be more convenient than editing it right on the canvas (in particular, that tab supports as-you-type spell checking).
Like other tools, Text tool can select objects of its own type - text objects -so you can click to select and position the cursor in any existing text object (such as this paragraph).
One of the most common operations in text design is adjusting spacing between letters and lines. As always, Inkscape provides keyboard shortcuts for this. When you are editing text, the Alt+< and Alt+> keys change the letter spacing in the current line of a text object, so that the total length of the line changes by 1 pixel at the current zoom (compare to Selector tool where the same keys do pixel-sized object scaling). As a rule, if the font size in a text object is larger than the default, it will likely benefit from squeezing letters a bit tighter than the default. Here's an example:

The tightened variant looks a bit better as a heading, but it's still not perfect: the distances between letters are not uniform, for example the “a” and “t” are too far apart while “t” and “i” are too close. The amount of such bad kerns (especially visible in large font sizes) is greater in low quality fonts than in high quality ones; however, in any text string and in any font you will probably find pairs of letters that will benefit from kerning adjustments.
Inkscape makes these adjustments really easy. Just move your text editing cursor between the offending characters and use Alt+arrows to move the letters right of the cursor. Here is the same heading again, this time with manual adjustments for visually uniform letter positioning:

In addition to shifting letters horizontally by Alt+Left or Alt+Right, you can also move them vertically by using Alt+Up or Alt+Down:

Of course you could just convert your text to path (Shift+Ctrl+C) and move the letters as regular path objects. However, it is much more convenient to keep text as text - it remains editable, you can try different fonts without removing the kerns and spacing, and it takes much less space in the saved file. The only disadvantage to the “text as text” approach is that you need to have the original font installed on any system where you want to open that SVG document.
Similar to letter spacing, you can also adjust line spacing in multi-line text objects. Try the Ctrl+Alt+< and Ctrl+Alt+> keys on any paragraph in this tutorial to space it in or out so that the overall height of the text object changes by 1 pixel at the current zoom. As in Selector, pressing Shift with any spacing or kerning shortcut produces 10 times greater effect than without Shift.

 

It makes sense, just a little 'different', though the same result can be done with a similar method. I did try a monogram-style lettering, and it works using the methods they work, but honestly, for me, it takes much longer and the letters can't be aligned vertically (automatically) that I can see. But it could be done.

BTW, should mention -- size the letters first individually (middle larger if you prefer), then space and align them.