Script lettering is the most requested thing in the personalisation studios, and it is also the easiest to get structurally wrong. A cursive name is a chain of thin connections, and a keyring is a fairly violent place to live.
The backing plate does the work
Rather than printing bare letters, we sit the lettering on a thin plate that follows its outline. The plate carries the load; the letters only have to look good. This is why the two-tone tags have a visible border — it is structural, not decorative.
Where the hole goes
The ring hole belongs over solid material, near the centre of mass — usually above the first letter rather than at the far end. A hole punched through a narrow tail turns the whole tag into a lever.
- Short names print stronger than long ones at the same size.
- A capital first letter gives the hole somewhere safe to sit.
- PETG for a keyring that lives in a pocket; PLA if it is going on a wall hook.
Every studio previews the real geometry — what you see rotating is the model that would be printed, not an illustration of it.