Their name, brought to life.

GiftLayer is a personalised gift studio in Hyderabad, making name-based gifts to order and shipping them anywhere in India. Photo frames, keychains, pen stands and nursery name plates — every one of them built around a single name.

At GiftLayer the name is the piece. You type it, choose a lettering style and a colour, and we make it for that one name. Nothing is stocked, so nothing turns up with somebody else's name on it.

The brand is written as one word — GiftLayer, not Gift Layer. If you have seen it spelt with a space somewhere, that is us too.

Every piece is designed around a single line of text, and the limit depends on the piece: 12 characters on the Name Keychain, 7 on the Name Letter Decor and Name Pen Holder, and 4 on the Hanging Photo Frame. Spaces count, so Sai Ram uses seven of the keychain's twelve and needs a shorter form on the frame.

Short names hold their shape best on every piece. If the name is long, the keychain has the most room; the frame suits a short first name or nickname above the photo.

If you are torn between a full name and a short form, type both into the live preview on the keychain or letter decor page. It redraws as you type, so you can see which one holds together before you decide. That is faster than any rule we could write here.

Every product offers three lettering styles, and the difference is more practical than decorative. Rounded is the forgiving one — soft, friendly and legible at any size, which is why it is the default on keychains and on anything going into a child's room. Bold has real weight in the stroke and reads from across a room, so it suits a name on a shelf or a desk. Elegant is a joined script: the prettiest of the three and the least forgiving, so give it a name of moderate length and a piece with room around it.

The colours are Blush, Teal, Charcoal, Marigold and Lilac. Blush and Lilac sit naturally in a nursery. Charcoal is the one that quietly disappears into a bookshelf or a desk and lets the shape of the name do the work. Marigold is the festive one, and the one that photographs best against a wall.

If you are matching a room rather than a person, choose the colour first and let the style follow.

Because nothing is made until it is ordered, there are two clocks. The first is production: 2–3 working days from the moment you place the order. The second is the courier: usually 2–4 working days after dispatch to metro cities, 4–7 working days to the rest of India and up to 10 to remote PIN codes. Door to door, that is usually 4–10 working days. Every parcel ships with a tracking link, and the shipping charge is shown at checkout before you pay.

In practice, allow at least two weeks from order to doorstep. If the gift is for a birthday, an anniversary or a festival, work backwards from that date and leave yourself a few days of margin — the courier leg is the part neither of us controls.

Ordering close to a deadline? Write to us before you order and we will tell you honestly whether it can land in time. We would rather turn an order away than miss the date it was meant for.

For the pieces that hold a photograph, the photo is a separate step. After you order, we send an upload link to your email and WhatsApp, so you can order today and pick the right picture after. We start making it once the photo reaches us.

One thing worth thirty seconds of your time: because every piece is made to order and carries one specific name, a misspelling cannot be resold or corrected after it has been made. Read the name back to yourself before you add it to the cart: in the live preview on the keychain and letter decor, or in the name box on the frame and pen holder. Your cart shows it once more before you pay.