How do you handle floor the stipple?

Foil below about 0.25 mm fills or drops. Half the dots were under that. Regenerated the stipple at a 0.28 mm floor and thinned density to keep the tonal read. Same drawing, printable dots.

How do you handle silk, not uncoated?

Uncoated tooth eats fine foil; coated gloss flashes under the gold. Silk: smooth enough to hold hairline foil, matte enough that the gold is the only thing that shines.

Case study · stickers · The Sun (independent tarot deck)

A tarot card drawn entirely in gold foil

An engraved-style illustration with thousands of stipple dots, reproduced as a single gold hot-foil pass on 16pt white silk. The whole card lives or dies on whether the smallest dots release.

Stickers for The Sun (independent tarot deck) with gold , single pass foil stamping, 2.75 × 4.75 in, rounded corners, 16pt white silk and minimum dot 0.25 mm.

FoilsCHENHUI Standard Metallic (M series) Bright Gold TechniquesHot Foil, Gold Foil, Rounded Corner StocksSilk matte 16pt

Two rules

01Floor the stipple. Regenerated the stipple at a 0.28 mm floor and thinned density to keep the tonal read. Same drawing, printable dots.
02Silk, not uncoated. Silk: smooth enough to hold hairline foil, matte enough that the gold is the only thing that shines.

Close detail of the The Sun (independent tarot deck) stickers — 2.75 × 4.75 in, rounded corners, 16pt white silk, Gold hot foil, single pass, Minimum dot 0.25 mm.

The finished The Sun (independent tarot deck) stickers shown in full — 2.75 × 4.75 in, rounded corners, 16pt white silk, Gold hot foil, single pass, Minimum dot 0.25 mm.

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Same paper, foil and finish, locked in — nothing of The Sun (independent tarot deck)'s artwork comes with it.

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A tarot card drawn entirely in gold foil

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