Custom candle labels that look poured by hand.

Felt-textured paper: a matte surface against smooth glass, with a bright foil mark.

Laid paper: fine parallel ribs that catch light as the jar turns.

Cotton-look cream or white: soft and warm, with a slight bite where the die presses. Cream warms gold and copper slightly.

Front: the name and mark on the part of the vessel people see first.

Wrap: a longer label for the story and the small print, sized to the actual jar. Full wraps are quoted.

Base: the warning text you supply, sized to fit underneath the vessel. We print what you approve on the proof; we do not write or check candle safety warnings.

Holiday candle season: plan about 3 weeks after proof approval (estimate).

Every foil label run needs its own foil die, and the die, stock and finish all move the price, so we quote foil labels to your spec rather than guess. Tell Peppermint Studio the size, the quantity and where the product lives, and you'll get a price and a stock recommendation before you pay anything.

Foil is binary: an area is fully foiled or it's bare paper. These rules decide whether your label survives the press:

• Fine detail survives foil. Lines hold to 0.1 mm; we design to 0.15 mm, with internal gaps around 0.25 mm.
• Foil type at 7 pt or larger. 8 pt is safer, type knocked out of a foil shape needs 10 pt, and high-contrast serifs (thin hairline strokes) need 12 pt. Ingredients, legal lines and anything smaller go in ink.
• Foil never sits on top of ink. We knock the ink out under the foil and leave a 1 mm gap between them. Foil and full colour share a label side by side.
• No gradients, shadows or photos in foil. Each foil becomes one solid tone.
• Foil 3 mm inside the cut line, or run it 3 mm past. A foil border that stops 1 mm short of the edge looks crooked once the cut shifts slightly.
• Barcodes and QR codes print in flat dark ink on a light ground, never foil or emboss, with foil kept at least 1 mm clear, so scanners can read them. On a black or dark label, that means a back label on light stock.
• Soft corners on custom shapes. Tight inside corners and narrow necks tear when the label is peeled off its liner, so we soften the radius slightly on the die. Nobody notices it on the shelf; everybody notices it on the applicator.

You don't need to get this perfect yourself. A person checks every file before the die is made, and tells you in one line anything we changed and why. If the label needs drawing to a real container, our label artwork service lays it out against the actual bottle and die, from $450. For the long version of the foil rules, read our foil artwork guide.