typeart.co.uk — your words, their portrait
Engraved portraits made from text

Your words.
Their portrait.

A likeness composed entirely from the words you choose — vows, lyrics, a eulogy, a lullaby — laser-engraved at gallery resolution into clear acrylic or anodised black steel.

A wedding photograph dissolving, left to right, into the couple's own vows set as microtext
One photograph, one vow. Look left and it is a picture of them; look right and every shadow is a sentence they wrote.
0.12 mm
Smallest letter
~76,000
Words per plate
6″ × 4″
Finished piece
UK
Made & dispatched
The materials

Two ways to hold the same words


Each plate is engraved from the very same file — what changes is how the light finds it.

Engraved text portrait — Clear Acrylic

Clear Acrylic

£59

Optical-clear 5mm acrylic. Your words frost into the surface; light does the rest.

Engraved text portrait — Anodised Black Stainless

Anodised Black Stainless

£79

Matte black anodised stainless steel. The laser lifts the black to bright silver beneath — crisp, deep, permanent.

A wedding photograph engraved in grayscale into a black anodised steel plate
No words at all

The Photograph 7″×5″

Sometimes you don't want the photograph turned into anything. You just want it to last.

The picture itself, engraved in continuous grayscale into black anodised steel — the laser lifts the coating to bright metal, tone by tone. No text conversion, no words to choose. Archival, fingerprint-resistant, and finished to the same standard as every piece we make.

£49.99 plus postage

Choose your photograph

“Move close enough and the picture dissolves — it was only ever her handwriting, set eighty thousand times.”
What a text portrait is

The commission

Three quiet steps


I

The photograph

Upload the picture that matters. Our studio isolates the sitter and composes the plate to flatter them — nothing is ever cropped away.

II

The words

Type or upload the text only you would choose. It repeats across the portrait — tens of thousands of settings of the words that mean something.

III

The proof

Within minutes you see true proofs of both materials. Nothing is engraved until you approve what you see.

The multi-commission

For everyone who should have one

Families at weddings, brothers at memorials, godparents at christenings — additional pieces in the same order carry increasingly kind pricing.

  • The first piecefull price
  • The second portrait−15%
  • From the third onward−25%
The companion

The keyring

The very same portrait, rendered to a pocket piece on the same plate material — treasured at funerals, births and weddings. £12 each; three or more at £10.

Start with the portrait
The presentation upgrade

Bring a loupe to it


Every letter is a tenth of a millimetre. Add premium presentation packaging and a jeweller's loupe, and the portrait stops being an image of them and becomes the sentence you wrote — readable, word by word.

Add it at the basket


Made to order

Personalised, and honestly so


Every piece is engraved uniquely for you. Because your portrait is personalised with your photograph and words, it is exempt from the 14-day distance-selling cancellation right under Regulation 28(1)(b) of the Consumer Contracts Regulations 2013 — once production begins we cannot accept cancellations or returns. Your statutory rights are unaffected: under the Consumer Rights Act 2015, if your piece arrives faulty, damaged or not as described we will repair, replace or refund it. You approve a true proof before engraving begins.

Delivery & returns in full