CHENHUI stamping foil

Standard Gold & Silver

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The bright metallic workhorse chart, and the range most Print Peppermint foil work is actually stamped with. Forty-two golds and silvers running from a green-cast pale gold to a deep antique — on coated and uncoated paper at accent coverage these hold their own against film costing several times as much.

Metallized Colour

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Tinted colour over a mirror ground, so the colour carries the metal's depth instead of sitting flat on top of it. This is the chart behind a metallic burgundy, a metallic teal or a copper that still reads as metal rather than as a printed brown.

Matte Gold & Silver

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The same metals with the mirror taken out. 171M matte gold is the house standard gold — the one in most of our sample kits and the default the Studio reaches for when a brief just says 'gold foil'. On uncoated and textured stock a matte metal is consistently the more considered choice; a mirror shows every fibre.

Matte Colour

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Flat, opaque colour with no metal in it. This is what you specify for a brand colour that has to sit on dark stock exactly as drawn — the case where a metallic would fight the design rather than serve it, and where translucent ink would simply sink.

Solid Colour Pigment

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The core opaque pigment set: white, red, green, blue, grey and two blacks. Small chart, heavy use. The white is the answer to light type on a dark uncoated sheet, which is the single most common thing a translucent ink cannot do.

Pearl Pigment

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Soft pearlescent colour, and the one Chenhui family that is PARTIALLY TRANSLUCENT — their own chart says so. On white and pale stock these are lovely; over a dark sheet the stock reads through and the colour goes with it. Treat them as a light-stock finish and specify an opaque pigment when the ground is dark.

Gold & Silver Holographic Patterns

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Diffraction films on a gold or silver ground: kaleidoscope, snowflake, flowing sand, maze, cat's eye, pine needle. These are patterns, not colours, and we publish no swatch for them on purpose — averaging a rainbow gives you a muddy brown that exists nowhere on the foil. They read best on solid shapes and heavy type and will fight fine rules.

Specialty Holographic Patterns

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The coloured-ground diffraction programme — red, green and blue grounds carrying the same pattern vocabulary as the gold and silver chart. The colour is in the film, so a green kaleidoscope stays green as it moves rather than cycling the whole spectrum. Same rules apply: solid shapes and heavy type, never hairlines.

Black Holographic

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Two films only, and unlike anything else on this page: a black ground that throws a diffraction pattern when the light catches it. Nearly invisible flat, spectacular at an angle. The whole effect depends on raking light, so they belong on a surface that gets handled.