EMBROIDERY INFORMATION

Custom Embroidery for Premium Apparel

Frontline Orders provides high-quality, durable embroidery built for everyday wear, work environments, and retail-ready merchandise. Whether you're outfitting a team, building your brand, or producing custom merch, we stitch clean, consistent results across a wide range of apparel.

What We Embroider

We offer embroidery on:

  • Hats: snapbacks, truckers, dad hats, beanies

  • Shirts: polos, corporate wear, uniforms

  • Hoodies & Sweatshirts

  • Limited Outerwear: select jackets & soft shells

  • Accessories: bags, aprons, totes, and more

If you’re not sure whether a specific item can be embroidered, just ask—we’ll let you know what’s possible and what will hold up best long-term.

Quantities & Pricing

How Pricing Works

Item Cost + Embellishment Cost = Your Total

  • MINIMUM ORDER QUANTITY OF 12 ITEMS

  • Embellishment cost depends on stitch count & type of garment. (See Pricing Table Below)

  • 1-Time Digitizing Fee of $40 for new artwork.

    • Re-orders of the same embroidered art waive this fee (once it’s in the library it’s good to go).

Standard Embroidery Pricing (Headwear)
Thread Count 1k 2k 3k 4k 5k 6k 7k 8k 9k 10k 11k 12k 13k 14k 15k 16k 17k 18k 19k 20k
Price

1.85

2.31

2.78

3.24

3.7

4.17

4.63

5.09

5.56

6.02

6.48

6.94

7.41

7.87

8.33

8.80

9.26

9.72

10.19

10.65

Specialty Embroidery (additional charges)

  • Flat Embroidery (T-Shirts, Hoodies, Outerwear): + $1.50 per item

  • 3D or Puff Stitching: + $1.50/item

  • Chain Puff Stich: + $1.50/item

Types Of Embroidery

Run Stitch

  • Best for small details, outlines, and fine linework

  • Appears as a thin, broken line

  • Not recommended for readable small text

SATIN STITCH

  • The most popular embroidery type

  • Smooth, shiny, raised threading—perfect for text and borders

  • Ideal for clean, bold logos

Fill Stitch

  • Used for large shapes and solid areas

  • More textured and matte than satin

  • Great for patches, big logos, and coverage on outerwear

CHAIN Stitch

  • Looping, textured stitch with a vintage, hand-crafted look

  • Great for script lettering, retro logos, and decorative lines

  • Adds movement and character not possible with standard embroidery

EMBROIDERY RESTRICTIONS

Embroidery has limitations as to what is realistically possible and also what looks best. We’ll do our best to make recommendations so your artwork looks as good as possible. Select a dropdown to read about design limitations for embroidery.

    • Minimum stroke thickness: 1 mm

    • Sans serif fonts: 4.7 mm minimum height

    • Serif fonts: 6.35 mm minimum

    • Script fonts: 6 mm minimum

    • Negative spaces must be at least 2 pts

    • Text must be at least 0.18" tall to remain legible

    • Very small taglines often need to be enlarged or removed

    • Ultra-thin lines cannot be recreated in thread

    • They will appear thicker or merge together

    • Outlines on lettering under 0.75" tall do not stitch cleanly

    • Small outlined fonts usually become muddy or unreadable

    • Very detailed artwork can’t be shrunk down without losing clarity

    • Details may require simplification at small sizes (like hat side placements)

    • Smooth fades and gradient effects cannot be embroidered at small scales

    • These areas will be converted to solid colors

    • Embroidery cannot capture true photo-quality detail

    • Expect a stylized, stitched interpretation—not a printed look