Cifera Crest

A monogram lives or dies on proportion. Cifera Crest is built around that idea: the surname initial sits a little larger in the middle, the frame leaves the letters room to breathe, and every rule is drawn at a weight that still reads at the size of a lock screen clock.

— The Studio
Type up to three initials and the crest redraws as you go. Choose one of six letterforms, from a calm bracketed Roman to a high-contrast Didone with a slanted stress, then decide how the letters meet: single, pair, the classic trio, stacked like a signet cipher, or interlaced, with the second letter traced in the accent colour so it appears to weave through the others.

— Frames and Ornaments
Seven frames, most drawn with a heavy outer rule and a hairline inside it: double ring, laurel branches tied with a small knot, heraldic shield, lozenge, cartouche with studs, a clipped Deco octagon, or nothing at all. Add pearl dots, a sunburst, a ring of four-point stars or corner brackets around the outside.

— Colourways
Ten considered palettes, each a ground, an ink and an accent that were chosen together: Garnet Wax, Ink and Vellum, Midnight Gilt, Cobalt Porcelain, Emerald Club and more. The Colours section previews every one with your current initials before you commit.

— The Library
Not sure which frame suits two letters rather than three? The Library lays out every frame, ornament and arrangement as a small specimen built from your own monogram, most with a short note on where the style comes from. One tap sends it back to the Studio.

— Gallery and Wallpaper
Keep the versions you like in the Gallery, reopen any of them for another pass, and set a crest on the home screen, the lock screen or both. The wallpaper version is centred on a faint diamond pattern in the same colourway, so it looks finished rather than stretched.

Small details, on purpose
• A slim side rail keeps all four sections one tap away
• Serif headings and a vellum-and-garnet interface by day, deep ink by night
• Every specimen is drawn live from your own initials, never from a stock sample

Your crests are saved on this phone only, and the app works the same with or without a connection.

Recent changes:
Cifera Crest 1.1: star the crests you love and sort the gallery, reopen a kept crest in Studio to refine or duplicate it, share any crest as a crisp PNG, and roll a surprise design with undo to step back.