Edge coloring is an amazing addition to a letterpress project. These are a couple thousand cards stacked up, just completed for GS Design in Milwaukee. They designed these for their client Dohmen. The radial dots are a nice contemporary design on the face of the card and the sides are a matching vibrant green. They are printed in two PMS colors on thick 165lb Neenah Solar White.
We can match edges to any printed PMS color. And the effect looks at it’s best on stock 160lb or thicker. It’s taken us a few years of practice to get the edge coloring production process just right, so we are purposefully a bit elusive about exactly how we do this. It has something to do with unicorn tears and hens teeth. ;) The effect is much more subtle when seen as a single business card and always makes people take a closer look.
Gorgeous effect, and well worth the unicorn tears.
I agree with @davidairey. Amazing effect and it looks really awesome when they are stacked. It is the little things that separate the men from the boys.
Nice! Hadn’t seen that before in business card design. Do many printers have the option available?
God is in the details! Love it
This is so cool. The green edges look great when stacked, but are you sure the cards too carry the same goodness when just single?
Love the colours!
Really nice, will try one in Orange and see what kinda feel it gives.
Oooohhhhh….. i love them! i think the hint of the green when it’s just a single card is oh-so-demure. Fabulous job!
Lovely work, as usual. Your post brought me over to the Neenah Papers site… just curious which of their paper brands you used for the 165lb weight?
We use the Classic Crest brand because it has a lot of text weight options and matching envelopes available for other stationery pieces that may be printed down the road.
wow, stunning!
I dont understand the technique to have the edge colored. Sorry for english
Simply amazing.. I really like it so much. Nothing much art implemented but really looks stunning.