Font engine for print on demand
Lettering they shaped themselves.
Let buyers shape the letters they order.
A personalisation upgrade you can charge for. Buyers see exactly what will be printed, and you print it with no royalties.
Set in Press
Every gift
looks the same.
Type a name, pick a font from a short list: every shop offers the same list, so every mug looks like the last one.
- The same menu
- The fonts on your product page are on your competitors' too, so a buyer can't tell your mug from theirs.
- Nothing of theirs
- Only the words are personal. Someone else chose the letters.
- Drawing doesn't scale
- Lettering drawn for each order needs a designer's time per order, which a gift's price can't carry.
Their name,
drawn for print.
Each style is real outlines from the engine: the paths that go into the font file or the SVG you print from.
Mia's
weight 136 · flare 1 · contrast 0.45 · stress 10
Shaped by
the giver.
Buyers shape the letters for the person they're giving to, and see exactly what will arrive.
- Their own lettering
- Shaped by them, from a script to a slab, not picked from a list.
- Easy for anyone
- Pick a style and turn the weight: every letter follows at once, with no design skill.
- Printed as seen
- The preview draws the same outlines that go into the print file.
- Every name sets
- 271 characters with accents, so Zoë, Bjørn and Siobhán come out right.
Your shop,
set apart.
Any shop can add fonts to a list. Lettering your buyers shape themselves is a feature they can't copy that way.
- Stand apart
- Lead with personalisation a font menu can't match, on the product pages where buyers compare shops.
- Charge for it
- Offer it as a paid upgrade on personalised products, or as a premium tier, at the price you set.
- Licensing, settled
- Print and sell with no royalty per item, worldwide. You decide what buyers may do with their lettering, and every file says so.
- Buyers come back
- Keep their lettering with the order, and a reorder, or the next gift, gets the same letters.
- Nothing to design
- No type designer, no font engineering, no AI model to host: the engine draws every letter.
Try it
as a buyer.
The real widget, as your product page could carry it: pick a style, type a name and turn the weight.
Storefront to
print file.
Show the letters where buyers shop, and make the file where you produce, from the same numbers.
- In your storefront
- The JavaScript or Swift SDK draws the letters on the buyer's own device as they turn, with no trip to a server.
- At order time
- The SDK on your server, or the API, makes a font file (TTF, OTF, WOFF, WOFF2) or SVG outlines from their numbers.
Try it on
one product.
Free first, with the SDK or the API. Then a pilot with real buyers, before you commit.
- Free evaluation
- The SDK, free for 30 days, with no card, in your own development and testing.
- API free trial
- 100 fonts over 14 days, with no card. For testing, not your live shop.
- Pilot
- $500 for 60 days, with the SDK and the hosted API. Go live with your real users before you commit to a year.
- Licences
- Yearly SDK licences and monthly API plans, side by side on the pricing page.
Good to know
A personalised product is about the person it's for. A name in a stock font changes only the words; lettering the buyer shaped carries their choices too, and they see it before they pay. That matters most for a gift, where making it yourself is the point.
Yes, and how is up to you: a paid upgrade on personalised products, a premium tier, or part of the product's price. The licence takes no share of it: there are no royalties on what you print or sell.
No. The engine draws every letter from its parameters, and its 35 named styles are ready to offer as starting points. You choose which styles and controls your buyers see. It's procedural drawing code, not AI, so there's no model to host or train.
Yes. Under the Engine License, the rights to fonts made with the engine in your shop go to you: you can print and sell them with no royalty per item to us, worldwide, with no time limit, and after your licence ends. You decide what your buyers may do with their lettering: pass on full commercial rights, or set narrower terms, such as only the product they ordered. Write them into your terms and, with the SDK or the API, into each file's licence text and link, copyright line, vendor ID and embedding setting. If you set nothing, buyers get the full rights.
Your shop holds the rights to the fonts it makes, and decides what its buyers get. They aren't exclusive: the same numbers draw the same letters, so two buyers who choose the same style and weight get the same font. We keep the rights in the engine itself, and nothing in the licence clears a name or logo as a trademark.
The engine draws 271 characters: the Latin alphabet with the accented letters that Western and Central Europe, the Baltics, Turkey, Azerbaijan, Iceland and Wales need, plus figures, punctuation and symbols. Zoë, Bjørn, Siobhán and Łukasz all set. It has no other scripts and no Vietnamese, so check a buyer's text with the SDK's coverage call before they order.
The preview draws the same outlines that go into the font or the SVG, from the same numbers, so what buyers approve is what you get. How it prints is down to your production.
Yes. Keep their numbers with the order: about a kilobyte. On the same engine version they compile to the same bytes, and if an update would ever change how the same numbers draw, we'll say so in advance.
With the hosted API, your server sends the buyer's numbers and gets a TTF, OTF, WOFF, WOFF2 file back in the response, or the text as SVG outlines with their kerning. Each request counts as one font on your plan. With the SDK, you can compile on your own server in Node instead.
No. The SDK runs on the buyer's device and sends nothing to us. The API generates a font, sends it back and forgets it, along with the text and numbers you sent, apart from our hosting provider's short-lived server logs.
Start with one product.
Try the SDK free for 30 days, or the API with 100 fonts, both with no card.