Enamel pins, lapel pins, challenge coins, button badges — each has its own line-weight, mould and plating constraints. We deliver artwork your mould-maker can actually use, for $399/month flat.
Founder, Digital Polo · Working with pin makers since 2010
From mould-ready conversions to original series design.
Customer arrives with a logo, sketch or reference image. We translate it into mould-ready vector with line-weight compliance and clean colour separations.
Concept-from-brief through mould-ready artwork — for clients commissioning original pin series, custom badges or new coin programmes.
Multi-pin themed collections with consistent rendering, proportions and enamel palette across the whole set.
The pin and badge formats your mould-makers actually produce — each with the file specs they expect.
Recessed enamel with visible metal die lines. The classic enamel-pin look — line weights tuned for clean moulding.
Polished flush-fill enamel. Slightly tighter line-weight tolerances; we design for them from the start.
All-metal pins with relief detail only. Elevation map called out on a separate layer for the mould-maker.
Two-sided coin artwork with raised / recessed callouts, Pantone enamel references, and per-side specialty fills.
Smaller-format enamel or die-struck pins for awards, recognition and corporate gifting programmes.
Pin-back button artwork at full bleed for circular crimp moulds. CMYK and Pantone-aware.
The decisions pin-shop owners notice from the first job.
No rework at the mould-maker because the lines were too thin. We design for the moulding process, not against it.
Gold, silver, antique brass, dual-tone — plating choice marked per design. Glitter, glow, transparent enamel isolated to a specialty layer.
Spot-colour callouts using Pantone Solid Coated, or your house enamel library if you supply it.
Pause or cancel anytime. Reseller rights included on both.
Most pin shops start here. 5–20 custom orders/mo.
High-volume pin manufacturers. Parallel jobs. 24-hour SLA.
Straight answers — no marketing-speak.
For soft and hard enamel pins, the metal die lines (the raised borders that separate enamel colour fields) need to be at least 0.15mm wide at the final pin size. Thinner lines deform during the moulding process. We design with that minimum in mind from the first sketch, scaling up to whatever pin diameter the manufacturer plans to produce (usually 25–50mm).
Yes. Mould-ready artwork has to account for what the casting and enamel-fill processes can actually produce: minimum line weights, minimum colour-field areas (tiny enamel pockets bleed), no isolated thin elements that can't be supported by surrounding metal, and a reasonable tolerance for registration between the mould and the enamel fill. We design for those constraints, not against them.
Yes — challenge coin design is one of our regular workflows. We deliver vector artwork plus a separate layer marking the elevation map (which areas are raised, which are recessed, which are flat) so your mould-maker has the relief information explicitly. Both sides of the coin are delivered as separate files. Pantone references for any enamel or printed colour fills.
Every enamel colour callout uses a Pantone Solid Coated reference. For colours that don't match a standard Pantone chip — fluorescents, metallics, transparent enamels — we call them out by the manufacturer's enamel-code library when you supply it. Most pin manufacturers have a house enamel library; share yours once on onboarding and we'll use it on every job.
All supported as long as your manufacturer offers them. We mark these specialty fills on a separate 'specialty' layer in the artwork so your mould operator and enamel filler can isolate them. Glitter density is called out (light / medium / heavy) per the manufacturer's standard scale.
Yes. White-label and reseller usage is included on the $399 Partner plan. Customers see only your shop. NDA on request, same-day signing.
Partner $399/month, Soulmate $899/month. Month-to-month, pause or cancel anytime, 7-day money-back guarantee on the first month. Most pin shops start on Partner and scale to Soulmate when monthly custom-pin orders climb past 20–25.
$399/month flat. 48-hour SLA. Line-weight-compliant vector with Pantone enamel callouts. Pause anytime.