Engraving | Personalise Items

How to Choose the Right Font for Engraving Your Personalised Items

Engraving is an art form that has been around for centuries with carved caricatures honouring the gods, engraved seals depicting wealth, and hieroglyphics recording history. Throughout the world, intricate engravings weave a tapestry, decorate jewellery, signal triumphs, and more often than not, let someone know that you care for them when including a personalised inscription on a gift or item. From trophies to plaques and promotional gifts, we at Trophy and Medal Boutique offer in-house engraving services.

Engraving

Memorialising Personal Triumphs with Engraving

Engraving doesn’t peel, wear, or tear over time, making this technique ideal for sporting, corporate, or scholastic events. Depending on the type of material used for the trophy, an achievement can be memorialised using laser engraving, sand carving, or mechanical engraving. Producing crisp, clear fonts with detailed graphics produces trophies that will be cherished by the recipient for years to come and be a story of triumph to tell younger generations.

Which Font is the Best?

Choosing a font to personalise an item can be almost as challenging as selecting the item itself. Deciding on the best font based on the item or gift bought depends on the occasion:     

  • Script fonts are normally used for romantic or special occasions, such as birthdays and anniversaries. Sometimes called cursive fonts, script fonts are derived from handwriting and calligraphy. There are distinctive extra flourishes in this font.
  • Block fonts are used for more formal occasions where trophies are handed out at award events and personalised engraving is required. As the name suggests, this font is made up of short, thick continuous lines with extensions at the end of its longer strokes.

At Trophy and Medal Boutique, we will assist you in selecting the right font based on the chosen material for your item or trophies as not all fonts translate the way you want them to on certain surfaces. Choosing the right font and style will transform the personalisation of any item.  

Importance of Personalised Engraving

Custom engraving is a popular technique used to add a personalised touch to gifts, trophies, and other items. Celebrating life’s milestones through engraving shows how much you care and the time taken to create something special, making your gift unique and memorable. Adding your touch to the gift (whether it is having the date, name, a complex design, or message engraved on it) is a gesture that will never be forgotten.  

Superb Quality Engraving Techniques

At Trophy and Medal Boutique, we offer superb-quality engraving techniques, making sure that your trophies remain cherished reminders of your achievements. Acknowledged as the industry standard, we believe in giving our customers quality items at affordable prices and have been doing so for over 30 years.

Contact us to find out more about how our skilled engravers can personalise your awards, trophies, medals, plaques, and gifts.