Foil directory
Every stamping foil we run, and the cheaper swap for each one
25 foils from KURZ, Crown Roll Leaf, Great Western and CHENHUI. Each page states where the foil grips, the smallest feature it holds, what it is like to run — and, for every premium foil, the CHENHUI equivalent with an honest account of what you give up.
Foil is metallised film with no fixed RGB value. Every colour here is an on-screen approximation — order samples before you lock a colour.
The house foil card
One card, 40 stamped films — the foils we keep on the shelf and reach for first. Every photograph here is that card, shot under studio light. Foil is metallised film, so no screen can match it; the card is the honest version, and we will send you one.
Front
The everyday metals and pigments: golds, silvers, coppers and the solid colours that carry most of our stamping work.
Back
The special-effect face — holographic, diffraction and pattern films, which only really read in motion.
Every foil on the card
Matte Gold
171M
Yellow Gold
101
Warm Gold
104
Light Gold
113A
Beige
P82-3-3
Champagne
P81
Lt Copper
194
Copper/Bronze
115-1
Rose Gold
117-3
Warm Grey
P82-2
Silver
120
Matte Silver
123M
Baby Pink
P83-2-2
Orange
117-7
Maroon
156
Red
130
Matte Red
139-11M
Coral
P83-1-1
Magenta
130-10
Plum
137
Purple
150
Navy
155-8
Prussian Blue
P95
Blue
150-5
Cyan
144-1
Turquoise
143
Seafoam
P84-1
Green
140-9
Metallic Olive
198
Olive
143-3M
Holographic
L2-004
Holo Glitter Silver
L2-010
Holo Sunburst
L2-005
Ruby Gemstone
L3-003A
Clear Holo Stipple
L8-012
Clear Holo Gemstone
L8-003
Black Holo Gemstone
L6-003
Blue Holographic
L5-004D
White
P92
Black
162-9
Want the card in your hand? Order a sample kit.
25 foils
Bright Gold
CHENHUI · Bright / mirror
Pale Gold
CHENHUI · Bright / mirror
Bright Silver
CHENHUI · Bright / mirror
Rose Gold
CHENHUI · Bright / mirror
Copper
CHENHUI · Bright / mirror
Gloss Black
CHENHUI · Bright / mirror
Metallic Red
CHENHUI · Metallised tint
Metallic Blue
CHENHUI · Metallised tint
Metallic Cyan
CHENHUI · Metallised tint
Metallic Green
CHENHUI · Metallised tint
Metallic Purple
CHENHUI · Metallised tint
Matte Gold · 171M
CHENHUI · Matte
Matte Silver
CHENHUI · Matte
Matte Black
CHENHUI · Matte
Brushed Gold
CHENHUI · Brushed
Brushed Silver
CHENHUI · Brushed
Opaque White
CHENHUI · Pigment / opaque
Pigment Red
CHENHUI · Pigment / opaque
Pigment Green
CHENHUI · Pigment / opaque
Matte Blush
CHENHUI · Pigment / opaque
Pearl White
CHENHUI · Pearlescent
Clear Gloss
CHENHUI · Clear / gloss-only
Holographic Rainbow
CHENHUI · Holographic / diffraction
Holographic Silver Sparkle
CHENHUI · Holographic / diffraction
Holographic Gold
CHENHUI · Holographic / diffraction
By finish
We stamp with KURZ, Crown Roll Leaf, Great Western and CHENHUI. Start with the finish — what it should look like in the hand — and we confirm the exact roll on your quote.
By manufacturer
KURZPremium
Leonhard Kurz, Fürth. The reference point for hot stamping foil worldwide — the brand most often written into a spec sheet by name. You pay for release consistency and for the fine-detail performance that holds a 0.15pt hairline over a long run.
Crown Roll LeafPremium
New Jersey converter, the domestic default for a lot of US trade shops. Strong on opaque pigment and diffraction, and easy to source in small quantities without a European lead time. We hold their own stamped colour cards, so the pigment programmes are shown from photographs of real foil rather than from a screen guess.
Great WesternPremium
US foil house with a deep metallic and pigment range. Where we go when a job needs a domestic replacement roll inside a week. We hold their own stamped sample cards for the pigment programme, so those colours are shown from photographs of real foil rather than from a screen guess.
CHENHUIValue line
Our value line and the one we run most. On coated and uncoated paper at accent coverage it stands up to anything on this page for a fraction of the roll cost. It gives ground on difficult substrates, on very fine detail, and on batch-to-batch colour consistency.
Common questions
- What is the cheaper equivalent of a KURZ foil?
- For most paper jobs at accent coverage the value-tier equivalent is genuinely close — our own house matte gold, CHENHUI 171M, sits on more printed work than anything else we run. We compare at the FINISH level rather than code to code, because a catalogue number we cannot verify is worse than no number at all. Each finish page states where the colour matches and where the premium brands earn their money: hairlines under 0.5pt, plastic and film substrates, tight foil-over-print registration, and long runs where a mid-run roll change has to match.
- Do the colours on this page match the real foil?
- No, and they cannot. Foil is metallised film — it reflects its surroundings, so it has no fixed RGB value. Every colour here is an on-screen approximation. Order a sample before you commit a brand colour to metal.
- Which foil should I use for white type on dark paper?
- An opaque pigment foil, never letterpress. Letterpress ink is semi-translucent and will not read as white on a dark sheet. On Colorplan Ebony and similar dark dyed-through stock we stamp opaque white pigment foil.
- Can you foil on plastic or film?
- Yes, but the foil has to be built for it. Most paper-first metallics will not grip a synthetic substrate. Each foil page states substrate by substrate where it grips and where it fails.
- Do you stock all of these?
- Yes. We stamp with KURZ, Crown Roll Leaf, Great Western and CHENHUI. The colour rows published here are the ones we hold verified codes for; the rest are quoted by finish and confirmed by code on your quote. Rolls have minimums, so an unusual colour on a small run may carry a roll cost. We will tell you before it is quoted.
Choosing the paper too? The paper directory covers every stock we print on, and each foil page links to the stocks it sits best on.