The short answer is: don’t worry. If you can read it, we can use it.
After many years and thousands of images, we’ve seen it all. Our expert artists have developed LOTS of tricks & techniques.
Not only can we bring out the handwriting in just about any image, we’ll painstakingly restore it to ensure sure the handwriting, and your jewelry, will come out great.
Handwriting Ring Made With Your Handwriting, shown with the original handwriting image, where the writing was etched in clay
And, rest assured, if we ever had any issues with the handwriting on your order, we’d reach out to you before making your jewelry. After all, we have a satisfaction guarantee, so we won’t send you anything you won’t love!
Handwriting Military Dog Tag with original handwriting
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Still not sure, or have questions? Just contact us! We’re more than happy to take a look at your images and let you know what we think.
Usually, people will upload these images as part of the ordering process.
But what if you need to order, and don’t have a photo of the handwriting with you?
What if I don’t have my image handy?
No problem. You can always send your images to us after you order, either via email, text, snail mail, carrier pigeon or raven.
If you’re not super tech savvy, no worries. Just let us know, and we will work with you to figure out the easiest way to get us your image, so we can get YOU some beautiful jewelry.
Questions?
Questions, comments? Feel free to contact us. We’re here to help!
We can create words from your handwriting sample by combining the individual letters from the document(s) you provide. It might be a recipe, or an old handwritten letter, or some other writing that has the letters needed.
Customers will often come to us with a handwritten note that contains words or a phrase that they want to put on a piece of jewelry.
Sometimes, the words they want aren’t all from one note, card or document. In that case, customers send us images of the different documents, and our artists will use pieces from each of them to create the combined writing for the jewelry piece.
We combined “Love “, “Lisa”, and “Mom” from the image on the left, and “you” from the image on the right. For the comma, we can use a piece of a letter (like the bottom of an ‘e’, or hand draw it to match the rest of the writing.
This can often be the case when someone is looking for a piece of memorial jewelry in memory of a loved one that has passed.
But what if you don’t even have the word you want in your loved one’s handwriting?
For example, you might have a letter in her handwriting, but it doesn’t have any or all of the words you want to put on the jewelry.
In that case, we can create the words from the handwriting sample by combining the individual letters from the document(s) you provide. It might be a recipe, or an old handwritten letter, or some other writing that has the letters we need.
Sculpted Rectangle Handwriting Necklace, with original handwriting
In fact, we’ve even helped customers create a special message when some of the letters weren’t there (like with the silver handwriting cuff bracelet shown at the top of this post!) In that case, we have to get creative. With some fancy Photoshop footwork, a ‘d’ can be transformed into a perfect ‘p’ or a ‘q’, an ‘h’ can become an ‘n’, or an ‘n’ can be used to create an ‘m’. We’ve worked with many thousands of handwriting samples, and have plenty of tricks up our sleeve.
On the small chance the individual letter can’t be created from existing letters, we can hand draw the letter. To do this, we do a careful analysis of the handwriting sample we have – the size, the thickness, the writing angles, the style and sizes of ascenders and descenders, etc., to make sure it will be a perfect match.
Once all the letters are ready, it’s time to combine them!
A person’s handwriting can vary quite a bit throughout a document. An ‘i’ near the top of the piece of paper is often larger then one near the end, when the writer was running out of room! If an ‘i’ from the top is paired with an ‘s’ squeezed in from a word at the bottom of the page, the letters won’t look like they go together, and the resulting writing will look wrong together.
So, it’s essential to make sure all the letters all scaled to matching size & thickness.
Typically, the writing is cursive, so each letter then needs to have a hand drawn connector to the adjacent letters. Whenever possible, we use the existing connectors from the letters.
Of course, this is a time-consuming and painstaking process, and requires a lot of experience and skill. But the results are worth it to produce a precious piece of jewelry that’s exactly what you want.
We can combine handwriting from more than one image to create the message you want on your jewelry.
Customers often ask us questions like:
“I want the phrase, ‘Love Mom XXX‘ on my bracelet/necklace/ring/etc, but I don’t have a document where my mom wrote that exact phrase.”
Or maybe you have a card with the writing you want, but you like the way Mom signed her name better on another card, so you want to have that version of “Mom” on your piece.
No problem! In this case we can combine handwriting from more than one image to create the message you want.
Here’s how it works:
Send us images of the handwriting you want put on the jewelry. You can upload the images when you order, or just email them to us afterwards
Our artists will extract the handwritten words you want from each image. As part of that process, we’ll take a number of steps to make sure your writing looks its very best.
Often, the handwriting from the images will be different sizes or thickness. So, we’ll carefully adjust the writing so that it all matches seamlessly.
Then, we’ll lay out the writing so that it elegantly fills the charm, and is visually balanced for the perfect look. This is an important step that, done well, can make a huge difference in the aesthetic appeal of the jewelry.
