Stroke Thickness Guidlines for Embossing, Debossing, Foil Stamping, and Letterpressing
Embossing and Debossing
Minimum Stroke thickness - 1 point
Letterpress
Minimum Stroke Thickness - .25 point
Foil Stamping
Minimum Stroke Thickness - .25 point
Quick Way to Check Your Stroke Thickness
- Pull your file into illustrator
- Create a line and put the stroke
- Use the line created and align it with a straight portion of your artwork.
- Compare thickness
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