Do not know how to choose medal plating in customizing medals?Do not know how to distinguish the medal plating in making medals online?The following explanations will help you finish your custom medals well.
Basic colour variations for custom race medals
As a basis for medals you choose one of the ten colour variants. The colour variant is actually the basic material of your custom made medals. The colour variants are divided into three styles, namely Antique, Shiny and Matt, and then in the colours gold, silver and bronze. The tenth colour variant is Black Nickel.
Often, as an organizer, you already have a preference for a style and colour. The atmosphere of the event is decisive for the basic colour variant and how we design your personalized medals. For example, an obstacle run would rather opt for an Antique or Matt medal than for a Shiny medal. Some organizers choose event medals in different colour variants during one event, for example per distance: marathon medal, half marathon medal and 5k medals.
Antique medal
The Antique medal is the most chosen colour variant. The advantage of this style is the detail with which the medals can be designed and produced. The smallest details are also clearly visible. Do you want to use a photo as the basis for the design? Even then the Antique style is often the best. The Antique style can also be combined with a background structure or colouring.
Shiny medal
The Shiny medal is often chosen for a somewhat tighter and more modern design. Processing a background structure or colouring can also give a nice effect. Small details are often less visible with this shiny style.
A) Shiny Black Nickel and Dye Black
Black nickel is a kind of electroplating process. The surface of the product is covered with a thin layer of black metal. Although the metal is black, the reflection of the metal surface makes the product look brighter rather than a pure black color. Shiny black nickel is a dark grey color and can reflect lights slightly. Black nickel is an alloy of nickel, zinc and nickel sulfide. It’s also lighter, cheaper and more shiny than silver. Dye Nickel is bright and doesn’t tarnish. Its color is close to aterrimus. It is water-proof. Black is sprayed with a layer of black pigment that does not reflect light and does not have a metallic sheen, so the color is pure black.
Effect: The products that use shiny black nickel will have texture and more delicate. Black nickel are used in some soft enamel medals. The use of black nickel and dye black depends on personal preference, if you want your products to be black, then you definitely choose dye black. But you should notice that hard enamel crafts can only do black nickel not dye black.
B) Shiny Gold and Shiny Brass
Gold is a very lightful color. It seems to appear yellow. However, brass seems to be rusty with a little green, looking like bronze. It is mixed with many colors like yellow, white, black, blue and dye yellow. These two similar colors can be distinguish from side if you watch carefully.
Effect: Shiny gold will give your products more showy and attractive side. And it will be used in the large area. While shiny brass seems to a kind of low-pitched beauty. The round of custom medals are used more frequently. Both can present the effect of gold medals. Gold plated is of higher quality. and the color paste is more like gold . Brass finish is not the color of gold. Choosing brass is due to its cheap price. If it is used as a large number of cheap souvenirs, we recommend the use of brass plating. If it's an important match or a souvenir request is high, we recommend gold finish.
Personalized Plating: Shiny Silver, Shiny Black Nickel & Dye Black
Shiny Silver Plating for Medals
Shiny Silver or nickel is often used on custom medals. Its color looks like steel. You can easily distinguish it from the above picture. But when you get your medals, maybe it is a little difficult to distinguish from black nickel. You should watch the side edge or back of medal to identify.
It is usually used on the 2nd medals, running medals or else.
Shiny Black Nickel Plating for Medals
Shiny black nickel is a bling dark and can reflect lights. When it reflects lights, it seems to be silvery.
Dye Black for Medals
Dye black is a deep dark, and it needs to make products dyed. Dye black is not wear-resistant compared with black nickel. In addition, you can choose to dye other colors, like dye pink, dye purple or else.
If you like dye crafts, you can try it. It will make your medals very different.
Do you need to design stylish and memorable medals for your teams?
At Kingtai craft products Co., Ltd, we have helped many sports teams create custom medals that deliver excellent results in all use cases.
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Post time: Apr-03-2023