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Create Clear Text Stickers Like a Pro: A Comprehensive Guide
February 18, 2016
Every now and then, we’re asked about how to create knocked-out clear text or clear areas in personalized labels and custom size stickers. Good news: It’s super easy to do! Try out this little-known hack within our Sticker Maker to add a special effect to your sticker design with clear text:
How Can You Use Clear Text Stickers?
Here are some common ways clear text stickers are used today.
Jar and Bottle Labels
Clear stickers look great on jar and bottle labels, allowing you to communicate important information about the product and showcase your branding without covering the contents of the bottle. You’ll commonly find clear text stickers on wine and beer bottles, jam jars, candle jars, toiletry containers, and other products sold in jars or glass/ plastic bottles.
Takeaway Products
If you’re in the food and drinks business, you should incorporate clear text stickers into your packaging. Whether it’s a clear drink cup or salad tub, these labels will allow you to brand your packaging cleanly and professionally. You can customize your clear text stickers to suit your brand, opting for round or square clear labels or other options.
Laptop Stickers
People love installing stickers on their laptops to add a touch of personalization to their gadgets. While die-cut stickers are common applications, clear text stickers make for a sleeker and more transparent look. Businesses can also give away branded stickers to employees and customers, making them walking advocacies of their brand wherever they go.
Car Window Stickers
Regular stickers with their white backgrounds and outlines don’t look as good as clear text stickers when placed on car windows. Perfect for glass and other transparent surfaces, clear text stickers will let you add your favorite designs to personalize your vehicles or showcase your brand while you’re driving around town.
Event Envelopes
You can also add a personal touch with clear text stickers to event envelopes, greeting cards, invitations, etc. They not only help decorate the paper for a professional, formal, or casual look, but when used as a seal, clear text stickers can make opening the letter a more exciting experience for the recipient.
How to Create Clear Text Stickers?
1. Go to stickeryou.com and click on Shop, Stickers, then Clear Stickers.
2. On the Clear Stickers page, click the Make Clear Stickers button. This button leads to the Sticker Maker, where you can design your stickers.
3. Once the Sticker Maker is fully loaded, you can upload your own image, use one of our template designs, or design from scratch using the design tools.
4. To make part of your design clear, you need to make sure that part is pure white. If you are adding clear text within the Sticker Maker, ensure that you select the whitest swatch in the color palette. If you are making your design with an editing program like Illustrator or Photoshop, ensure the clear part is 100% white (CMYK values 0%, 0%, 0%, 0%).
Note: It is important that ONLY the parts you want to be printed clear are 100% white. If there are other white parts of your design, they will be printed clear as well.
5. When your design is complete, click the Done Editing button.
6. In the order details, you need to select two options to make sure your white parts print as clear.
First, make sure the material is set to Removable Clear Vinyl. Then make sure the white ink options are set to Make White Areas Clear.

Conclusion
Voila! Your stickers will be printed on clear vinyl, with the white areas of your design printed clear. This is a great way to add an interesting effect to product labels or packaging.
If you need help with creating your stickers, contact us via Live Chat for instant support or email [email protected] to use our art and design services.
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