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.

FoilsYellow Gold · 101 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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