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? Lots of shading, colors or neighboring objects/elements may blend together or need modification to work as a stencil. We also handle multi color stencils and photographs.
- Size – the larger (maybe 10″ to 20″) the stencil the more details we can get with good results. Too small, and tiny details get lost or don’t come out well.
Keep in mind a stencil is 2 color – black and white. That’s not to say a complicated, multi color or even full color logo or photograph can’t be made into a great stencil for your painting application.
Multi color stencils are also possible by using 2 or more layers of stencils – use one stencil for color 1, lay down a 2nd stencil for color 2, etc.
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
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.
But pictures speak louder than words, see the below examples for great spray paint stencils we made with our clients.
Some of these examples took our talented graphic artists quite a bit of time to achieve the desired result, and may have required additional artwork fees.
Below you’ll see an original logo, what they stencil looks like, and a visualization of what the end result may look like when spray painted.
Note that some of these required extra charges for our graphic designers to modify so they worked as a stencil. Not sure if yours will require an extra charge? You can email your art to us prior to ordering, or just place your order and we’ll let you know after you order, before we charge you.
“Great work, I was able to submit a jpeg and you created a stencil. After you sent me your mock-up, I was able to ask for specific modifications.”
“LazerDesigns recreated our brand perfectly as a stencil. They custom cut the stencil after I had reviewed their mock-up. I am very pleased with their work!”
