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Four pieces: how many letters actually fit on a nameplate, what "gold plated" is allowed to mean in law, which blanket size suits which room, and what a photograph needs before it is printed two feet wide. Every statement about metal, about the law or about where a baby's blanket belongs is written under a named public source, listed on how we update the catalogue.
A nameplate is ten millimetres tall whatever is cut into it, and it takes up to fifteen characters. So length runs sideways: a ten-letter name is a wider pendant than a six-letter one, it hangs differently, and the script you pick matters more than the metal does.
Gold plated, gold filled, vermeil, sterling silver: four phrases that sound like grades of the same thing and are not. The federal jewelry guides define each of them, and knowing which one is on the card tells you where the piece will wear first.
Four rectangles, and the difference between the smallest and the largest is four times the cloth. Ordering the wrong one is the commonest disappointment in this category, and it is entirely avoidable with a tape measure and two minutes.
The picture that looks sharp in your hand is about to be printed two and a half feet wide, or cut out of its background and repeated round a sock. Both do things to a photograph that no amount of care afterwards can undo, and both are predictable before you upload it.
Every size, every finish
Every nameplate, bracelet, ring, case and blanket in the Yofair range sits behind this button, with the price from our last update against each one.