Efficient way for sprites game like scrabble

Hi,

Since i am a newbee I have a question i am making a multi language game like scrabble , i need to know which technique will give me better performance

1) should i save each and every alphabet character TILE separately

2)should i make one big image with all characters in one big image and make the tile image separately and use combination of these two sprites to make a tile?

Which one is efficient and i am unable to find a good guide for sprite usage any kind of help will be appreciated.

Thanks

You could create tile sprite clones and then set text on each sprite to create letters.

but text does not looks nice do i need to create font sprite for this?

There is a text font plugin. Gets talked about a lot on the forums. In this case though you could just create 26 letters outside of the game and import them and use them how you want I guess.