Custom medals are an essential reward item in modern competitions and events, and making these beautiful medals requires a professional factory to complete to make sure your design will be well realized with high quality. here we want to share some info with you about customized medal.
1. Single side or 2-sided design
From the mold of side, we can do single side design or 2-sided design, see below example. most of the medals are single side, because 1 side medal is okay to show the event info (logo/slogan/texts), what’s more, it’s usually cheaper than 2-sided design. if need to make it unique one to each participant, we can laser engraving info on the other side.
2. Select plating colors
Things with a nice cover will get more attention from people, and same goes for customized award sport medals. and the plating color is the “nice cover” for medals, so select a suitable plating color for your medal is important. here’s a plating color chart for reference of different and frequently used plating colors
3. Decide the shape of your own design medal
There’re many kinds of medal shape, the most used shape is round, please check below
4. Confirm the enamel colors of medal
To make the customized medal colorful/eye-catching, good color matching is necessary. normally we do soft enamel color according the Pantone book, and customer provide pantone color, if you don’t know the specific pantone color, no worries, you can show us your logo image or other info which can help to express your needed color, we will send you pantone colors for confirmation. Besides pantone color, we also have methods to realize gradient colors on medals, just tell us which you prefer, we will take care of it.
5. Choose the type of ribbon
6. Other special features
Besides above normal requests, sometimes, customer would have some special needs such as:
1. I’d like to indicate names of each participants on each medal, can it be done ? – Yes, we can achieve it by laser engraving instead of done by mold, as names vary, if done by mold, technically can be done, but too much cost, it’s not cost efficient, laser engraving can not only show the names, but also in a very affordable way.
2. I’d like to make a spinning medal, possible ? – yes, no problem, we can do, see below example for reference
3. I’d like to make glitter medal, okay ? – Yes, no problem, we can make it too
4. I’d like to make a 3D medal to make it more dementional, can you ? – No problem at all, we can do it.
More requirements, feel free to check with us, we will try best to provide solutions, your great satisfaction is our goal !