A portrait you can read
Every engraving we make is a photograph rebuilt from prose. Up close: the exact words its owner chose — a father's wedding speech, the first chapter of a diary, a eulogy. From an arm's length: a face you recognise.
We began with a simple conviction: the object should contain both the likeness and the reason for it. Text and image have been combined by engravers for centuries, but designing the letterform as the shade itself — each word sized by the light it must carry — took our own rendering engine, written and tuned in-house over dozens of plates until the greys read true at 0.28 mm pitch.
Nothing here is off-the-shelf. Your words are set into the photograph by software we wrote, proofed to you before anything is committed, and only then engraved — one piece at a time, by a studio that will answer your email.