Interlocking monogram maker
An interlocking monogram overlaps script capitals so the letters weave into one another rather than standing side by side. It is the format for wedding stationery, engraved glassware and anything that wants to look hand-drawn.
The SVG keeps each colour as its own path, so a two-colour cut or print separates cleanly. PNG is transparent at 5,400×5,400px.
Great Vibes · Script
Great Vibes · Script. Give the two letters different faces for a contrast cipher. Only faces whose capitals genuinely interlock are listed — several in the wider library sit side by side no matter how far you push them together.
How far the second letter rides onto the first. A percent or two either way is often the difference between close and right.
Nudge the initial inside the mark — handy when a font sits high or off-centre in the ring.
Nudge the initial inside the mark — handy when a font sits high or off-centre in the ring.
Not every script interlocks
Whether two capitals lock together depends on how much of their width is actual letter and how much is flourish, and that varies enormously. We measured it by rendering each pair and counting the pixels where both letters have ink. A script has to be pushed 80 to 90 percent of its width before the strokes genuinely cross, because most of that width is swash; a heavy serif crosses at 40 percent. The Interlock slider starts at a sensible value for whichever face you pick, and a percent or two either way is usually the difference between close and right.
Tangerine, Petit Formal Script and Sacramento are lovely faces but their capitals never really meet at any overlap — set them interlocked and the letters simply stand apart, which looks like a mistake rather than a style. That is why the typeface list here is a curated set rather than the whole library.
An honest note on true vine monograms
Interlocking is often confused with the vine monogram, where leafy tendrils grow from the letterforms and weave between them. They are different things, and a true vine monogram needs a purpose-drawn font with separate left, centre and right glyphs designed to interlace.
No such font exists under an open licence — we checked thoroughly, and every recognisable vine monogram face is commercial. Rather than ship a weak imitation and call it vine, this page offers script interlocking, which is a real style in its own right. If we add vine later it will be because we have drawn or licensed it properly.
Questions
What can the interlocking maker do that the others cannot?
It weaves exactly two capitals together and gives each letter its OWN controls — a separate typeface, a separate colour and a separate nudge — so you can cross a flowing script with an engraved roman in two inks and position each letter by hand. The circle, split and four-letter makers draw their letters in one font and one colour. There are also five locking methods for how the two letters meet: overlap, diagonal, mirrored, nested and stacked.
Can the two letters use different fonts?
Yes — there is a first-letter typeface and a second-letter typeface, each previewing its own initial. Mixing two faces (a script crossed with a roman cap, say) is what makes an interlocking cipher distinctive, and the maker normalises both to the same cap height so they still meet on a common line. No other maker here sets two fonts in one mark.
What does the Interlock & Set / Unlock button do?
It freezes the current interlock so the letters stop shifting while you fine-tune, then flips to Unlock to return to the live composition — lock a look you like, keep experimenting, and compare. The two colours export as separate paths, so a two-colour vinyl cut or print separates cleanly.
Which fonts interlock best, and why is the list short?
The list is curated because whether two capitals actually weave is a property of the typeface. Great Vibes, Alex Brush, Allura and Parisienne cross cleanly as scripts; Cinzel and Playfair give the engraved-cipher look as roman caps. Faces whose capitals only ever sit side by side, no matter how far you push them, are left out on purpose.
Is an interlocking monogram the same as a vine monogram?
No. Interlocking overlaps ordinary script or roman capitals so they weave together, which is what this maker does. A vine monogram has foliage growing out of the letterforms and needs a purpose-drawn font — a different thing entirely.
Other monogram styles
All styles live in the main monogram generator — this page just opens it already set to interlocking monogram maker.
Updated through July 2026.