What is the minimum stroke width for gold foil stamping?

0.6 mm is a safe floor on cotton stock. Thinner lines can stamp, but they lose definition as the die heats through a run.

Why do interlocking rings fill in when foiled?

The white gap at the crossing is usually drawn thinner than the surrounding stroke. Foil spreads slightly under pressure and closes it.

Does this mark work in one colour?

Yes. It was drawn as black on white first; the foil is a finish decision, not a structural one.

Ever

Wedding Rings

Brand guidelines
Version 1.0
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01 — The idea

Interlocking rings fail in foil when the stroke is too thin or the weave is inconsistent.

Client

A wedding ring maker

Construction

Two rings of identical diameter on one horizontal line, drawn as an even-weight outline, interlocking in a clean over-under weave.

02 — Primary lockupStacked · symbol over wordmark

Wedding Rings

03 — On light

Wedding Rings

Ink on Blush

03 — On dark

Wedding Rings

Warm Gold on Ink

04 — One colourFor fax, engraving, foil dies and single-plate letterpress

05 — Clear space

Clear space equals one ring diameter on all four sides.
Minimum 12 mm wide. The weave gaps close below that.

06 — Scale

48 MM

24 MM

12 MM

FAVICON

Favicon: one ring, centred. Below 12 mm the wordmark is dropped and the symbol stands alone.

07 — ColourPantone from the Solid Uncoated book

Blush#F2DCD4RGB 242 220 212CMYK 0 9 12 5

Ink#1C1A1ARGB 28 26 26CMYK 0 7 7 89

Warm Gold#B08D57RGB 176 141 87CMYK 0 20 51 31

08 — Typography

Bodoni Moda · display

ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz 0123456789

Work Sans · text

Body copy is set at 16–18 px on screen and 9.5–10.5 pt in print, sentence case, with a maximum measure of 66 characters. Never letter-space lowercase body text.

IBM Plex Mono · labels

Labels · captions · specification lines

09 — Do and do not

✓Hold one stroke weight the whole way round both rings

✓Break the back ring with a white gap of that same width

✓Track the descriptor to the width of the wordmark

✕Never stack the rings vertically

✕Never thin the stroke to fit a smaller space

✕Never let the weave gaps close under foil pressure

10 — In application

A studio identity exercise. Mark, palette, type system and usage rules by the Print Peppermint design team.

Every identity we build ships with the file the press needs: vector mark, one-colour version, favicon set, Pantone Uncoated references and a guide like this one.

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A studio exercise. Ever, and every brand in this series, is invented — no client commissioned it and none of it was ever sold.