An original design
Baybayin nameplate
Your name written in the old script and the new one, on a plate that stands on its own.
Baybayin was the way Tagalog was written before the Spanish arrived — seventeen characters, each a syllable, carved into bamboo. Most of us learned a few of them in school and then never saw them again outside a tattoo or a T-shirt.
This design puts a name in both scripts on one desk plate: Baybayin large, with the Latin spelling small underneath, so that the person who gets it can read it, and so can the lola who asks what it says. It is a parametric design of ours — the plate, the stand and the spacing adjust to the length of the name, from three letters to twelve, and the characters are drawn from a syllabary we built ourselves rather than a font someone else owns.
The transliteration is done by hand, not by a converter, because Baybayin has rules that trip up software: final consonants, the ra that some communities use and others do not, names that came from Spanish or English. We confirm the spelling with you before printing. If you want a nameplate for a desk, a door or a graduation table, start from the shop or tell us the name on Messenger.