Sunny,

Welcome!

My best suggestion is to find a font that will be clear when pixellized into the number of stitches across for your afghan. If you make the name with that font, it should be created as the number of pixels = the number of stitches. Meaning, if you have a width of 100 stitches in your afghan, the image of that font should be set at a width of 100 pixels. So if you're creating an image of 100 pixels wide, you can simply use a font size that fits into the 100 pixels, if that makes any sense. And then, as previously mentioned, make sure it's a font that turns out clear enough to read and looks the way you want it to look.

If you don't have a graphics program to do this and you're on a PC, there are at least two (and probably more) free programs that are very powerful and will allow you to create such images. These two programs have been around for a very, very long time, so they're quite reliable and are well known.

One, called Gimp, is available here:

The other is called paint.net and is available here:

Both programs are fully supported through user communities. (I'm sorry to say I have no information on how to use them, as I only occasionally use these myself, but only because I mainly use an ancient, ancient program from, no kidding, 1998. Yes, it's 22 years old! But it does what I need and I know it well.)

Hope that helps!