Hot Stamping Foil for High-Volume Coding & Branding [Get Quote]

Hot stamping foil color represents a vast and diverse category that extends far beyond traditional metallic shades, encompassing a nearly unlimited spectrum of solid pigments, transparent tints, and special color effects. This category includes opaque pigmented foils in bold shades like red, blue, green, or white, which provide solid coverage and are often used for branding elements where specific Pantone color matching is required. Transparent colored foils, sometimes called tint foils, allow the underlying metallized layer to show through, creating vibrant iridescent or pearlized effects that change with the viewing angle. Other color effects include matte finishes, which provide a non-reflective, velvety appearance, and chameleon or color-shifting foils that transition between two or more colors dynamically. The creation of these colors involves sophisticated pigment dispersion and coating technologies to ensure consistency, vibrancy, and stability. Application scenarios are broad; a company might use a specific brand blue pigmented foil on their packaging for instant recognition, or a cosmetic brand might choose a pearlized pink foil for a compact case to achieve a soft, luxurious effect. The ability to accurately color-match allows brands to maintain strict identity standards across different substrates and finishing techniques. We offer both a extensive range of standard colors and the capability to develop custom color matches to meet unique brand guidelines and design concepts. To explore our color capabilities and request color drawdowns or samples for your project, please contact our color matching department for assistance.