Pony bead letters

Using these pony beads letters

Each character gives the beads in each colour and the finished size with standard pony beads. To lace a whole name with even spacing, use the pony bead name pattern maker and keep a background colour switched on.

For a vertical name tag, lace one letter under another with a row of background beads between them; the text tool’s Stacked layout charts it for you.

Tips before you start

A laced row cannot have a gap, so every pony bead letter here sits on a white background that fills its whole rectangle. Change the background to any colour in the editor; a pale background with a dark letter is easiest to read on a keyring.

Pony beads are taller than they are wide in a laced piece (about 6 mm across and 9 mm tall), so letters come out tall and narrow. The Tiny font gives the most compact name tags; Basic reads best from a distance.

Working in another craft? The same alphabet is charted for cross stitch, fuse beads, alpha bracelets, C2C crochet, knitting charts, diamond painting, needlepoint, latch hook, brick mosaic, peyote & brick stitch and pixel art.