A name, a charm to wear.
Raised letters on a plate that hugs their outline, with a ring for a phone strap, a bag cord or a key ring. The model is built right in your browser.
Building the model…
Drag the ring to move it · drag elsewhere to orbit · scroll to zoom
Up to 24 characters. Vietnamese diacritics work with the default font.
Measure the cord or ring you plan to use and pick a hole at least 1 mm larger — printed holes usually come out a little small.
How it works
The plate follows the letters, not a rectangle.
The plate is every point within the “border” distance of the nearest letter stroke, so it rounds evenly around each letter and fills the gaps between letters that sit close together. The ring goes off the leftmost, topmost or rightmost letter edge — or wherever you drag it in the preview — and is always snapped so the hole keeps at least 1 mm off the letters, with at least 1.8 mm of plastic all around it.
When letters sit too far apart — usually after a space — the plate would fall into several pieces. The tool joins them with the shortest straight bar it can and tells you it did. To do without bars, raise the border until the pieces join on their own.
The export is a closed solid: checked across more than a thousand random text and setting combinations, in the default font, with the same mesh checker /tools/model-check uses — no open edges, no degenerate faces. 3MF keeps the plate and the letters as two parts of one object, each with its own colour; STL merges both into one file.
My printer only does one colour — how do I get coloured letters?
Swap filament mid-print: in your slicer, add a colour change (or pause) at the height of the plate thickness. The printer stops once the plate is done, you swap the spool, and it carries on with the letters. Without a swap, the raised letters still read by their relief.
What letter size and border should I pick?
The thinner the strokes, the harder they print — with a 0.4 mm nozzle, keep the thinnest stroke at roughly twice the nozzle width or more. The default bold font at 10–12 mm is usually comfortable. A wider border makes a sturdier plate and fewer connecting bars, at the cost of a bigger charm.
Can I use my own font?
Yes — upload a .ttf or .otf; it is only read on your machine. Fonts with overlapping strokes still give a closed solid, because the letter outline is re-traced from the rendered strokes rather than extruded straight from the font. The font's licence is still your responsibility, especially if you sell the charms.