What is the Crystal Cards notecards printed on?

16pt silk, Soft-touch matte laminate, 4-colour process both sides, Rounded corners, 20-card deck. Every line of that spec is what actually ran, not a proposal.

Why soft-touch over full-colour art?

Soft-touch laminate mutes saturation, and twenty illustrations dropping in chroma together would look muddy. Built the separations a step up in saturation to pay for the laminate, and proofed the deck as a set rather than card by card.

Can Print Peppermint print this specification again?

Yes. The materials on this page are live registry items, and the Studio link opens with the same paper, foil and finish locked in for your own artwork.

Case study · Notecards · Crystal Cards

Crystal Cards — notecards

A wellness brand wanted a pocket deck of crystal meanings. Soft-touch keeps the gemstone illustrations from glaring; 16pt keeps the deck thin enough to carry.

Notecards for Crystal Cards with 16pt silk, soft-touch matte laminate, 4-colour process, rounded corners and 20-card deck.

TechniquesRounded Corner StocksSilk matte 16pt

Two rules

01Soft-touch over full-colour art. Built the separations a step up in saturation to pay for the laminate, and proofed the deck as a set rather than card by card.
02Deck thickness before card thickness. Held 16pt silk and put the weight into the laminate and the rounded corner instead of the caliper.

The brief

A 20-card deck of 2.5×3.5 in cards on 16pt silk with soft-touch matte laminate; each card a full-colour 4cp print of a gemstone illustration on the front and a first-person description on the back ("Hi, I'm Opal…"); rounded corners; a fanned stack with Opal on top.

Macro: the soft-touch surface of the Opal card, the fine 4cp gemstone illustration and the rounded corner — The soft-touch surface of the Opal card, the fine 4cp gemstone illustration and the rounded corner.

Crystal Cards notecards — 16pt silk, Soft-touch matte laminate, 4-colour process both sides — 16pt silk, Soft-touch matte laminate, 4-colour process both sides, Rounded corners, 20-card deck.

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Same paper, foil and finish, locked in — nothing of Crystal Cards's artwork comes with it.

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Questions

What is the Crystal Cards notecards printed on?: 16pt silk, Soft-touch matte laminate, 4-colour process both sides, Rounded corners, 20-card deck. Every line of that spec is what actually ran, not a proposal.
Why soft-touch over full-colour art?: Soft-touch laminate mutes saturation, and twenty illustrations dropping in chroma together would look muddy. Built the separations a step up in saturation to pay for the laminate, and proofed the deck as a set rather than card by card.
Can Print Peppermint print this specification again?: Yes. The materials on this page are live registry items, and the Studio link opens with the same paper, foil and finish locked in for your own artwork.