Custom Logo Stencils – How to Make A Logo Stencil

Turning your logo into a stencil should be a painless, easy process!

Our skilled art team works with hundreds of logos and photos every month, tweaking them, adjusting small details and adding bridges to make them work when turned into a stencil, whether for use as a spray painting stencil, brush paint or some other application.

How To Make A Logo Stencil?

So how do you make a custom stencil logo? There are a number of factors that go into how well your logo will turn out as a stencil. Below are listed important factors to consider whilst coming up with your design.

How many small details does it contain? Lots of tiny, intricate lines don’t always cut out the best. Picture an insect wing or lots of filigree or curls. This may require some special work by our art team and will be more fragile. (see examples)
How close are the various elements in your design? Ideally, a gap of at least 0.1″ to allow for cutting out the lines in between elements, minimum 0.05″.
We recommend 10mil thick durable, flexible stencil mylar film for most applications for its versatility to handle complex and simple designs and is super durable.

The small details on these wings barely came out as a stencil, and required some custom work by our art team to get just right

What do we do to make a logo or design stencil ready?

Our art team will add bridges or connectors between elements so the doughnut holes don’t fall out when cut.
We will also try to thicken up any elements that are too close, without compromising the original logo
Sometimes, this requires an art fee if the work will take our art team significant time

Example logo being turned into a stencil by our art team. See more complicated examples

“I had a great experience no problems whatsoever. The customer service was a really good they were attentive listened helped me answered my questions. The product I received was excellent, looked exactly how I had designer, no issues whatsoever with the product.”

“They came quickly and were exactly what we wanted. They were custom made for our company logo. Would 100% buy again.”

What is the best material for my stencils?

Our custom stencils are made out of high quality, durable and easy to clean mylar – making them perfectly suited for spray paint, brush paint, detail work.

They work on wood crates, metal dumpsters, parking lots, t-shirts, buildings or any other application.

Mylar has a slight bend to it – the 10mil mylar has flexibility and durability.

We recommend 10mil for almost all applications, especially smaller details.
We also carry a 5mil adhesive backed for easy application and magnetic stencils.

HOW TO CLEAN YOUR STENCIL:

If you clean your stencils right away and don’t use permanent paint, you may be able to use warm soapy water to clean them off (depending on what kind of paint you use). But you will probably need to use PAINT THINNER to clean paint off a stencil.
Lay stencils flat, and scrub gently, cleaning both sides. Be careful not to bend back any pointy parts or tear the delicate, small bridges. If something does tear, you can repair with scotch tape on both sides.
You can dip a paper towel in mineral spirits and dab as well.
For super stubborn paint, or paint that has been allowed to dry, use one of the below cleaning agents, and wrap stencil in a garbage bag for 20 minutes allowing it to soak. (or a ziplock bag if small enough)
For cleaners, you can use “Krud Kutter”, Dawn’s Power Dissolver, Lift Off Latex Paint Remover, Mineral Spirits or low-odor turpentine, carefully with denatured alcohol, acetone or a similar product.

What about extra large stencils, how do I create really big custom stencils?

We do this all the time! Our maximum size mylar stencil is 36″x24″, but we’ve done stencils many times that size by creating multiple panels,

large format stencil multiple panels — 4 foot by 4 foot large stencil made up of 4 smaller panels

For instance, this university wanted a giant Z for their garage floors, so we created 4 panels for them, turning their Z into a 4 foot square stencil.

large format stencil multiple panels2 — Over 7 feet wide stencil made up of 3 panels

Elite Logistics needed a stencil over 7 feet wide, so we created a 3 panel stencil for them to use for spray painting.
Stay tuned for more…