Custom Enamel PinsPatches Designs
We create custom enamel pins with Pantone-matched colours, polished metal plating, and fully custom shapes, produced in hard or soft enamel to suit your design.
- Pantone-Matched Colors
- Hard Or Soft Enamel
- Custom Shapes & Cutouts
- Multiple Plating Finishes
Our Enamel Pins
Why Choose Custom Enamel Pins
Premium Finish
Polished metal and filled enamel give a pin a weight and shine that printing cannot match.
Built To Last
Metal and fired enamel do not fade, fray, or wear, so a pin outlives most merchandise.
Customizable Designs
Choose your enamel type, plating, size, cutouts, backing, and finishing effects.
Hard Enamel VS Soft Enamel Pins
Surface & Texture
- Hard Enamel: Enamel is filled level with the metal lines and polished flat, giving a smooth glass-like surface.
- Soft Enamel: Enamel sits recessed below the raised metal lines, giving a textured surface you can feel.
Durability
- Hard Enamel: The flat polished face resists scratching, which suits pins worn daily over years.
- Soft Enamel: Recessed enamel is protected by the raised metal, though the surface shows wear sooner.
Detail & Depth
- Hard Enamel: Clean and precise, but very fine metal lines are harder to hold at small sizes.
- Soft Enamel: The raised metal outlines read sharply, and dimensional depth makes artwork pop.
Cost & Best Use
- Hard Enamel: Higher unit cost. Chosen for awards, corporate pins, and premium collectibles.
- Soft Enamel: More economical. Chosen for merchandise runs, events, and fundraising pins.
Why Choose Enamel Pins
Hard Enamel Pins
Polished flat to a smooth finish with no texture underfoot. The traditional choice for awards, membership pins, and anything intended to be kept rather than worn for a season.
Soft Enamel Pins
Raised metal outlines with recessed colour, which gives visible dimension and a tactile surface. The most ordered style for merchandise because it delivers impact at a lower unit cost.
Die Struck Pins
Metal only, with no enamel fill, relying on polished and recessed surfaces to carry the design. Understated and well suited to monograms, crests, and corporate lapel pins.
Printed & Photo Pins
Full-colour printing under a clear epoxy dome, which reproduces photographic images and gradients that enamel cannot hold. The right choice when artwork is too complex for metal lines.
Brand & Merchandise Pins
Pins have become a merchandise category in their own right for apparel labels, bands, artists, and streetwear brands building collectible product lines.
Awards & Recognition Pins
Service anniversaries, safety milestones, and membership tiers, produced in hard enamel with plating that distinguishes each level of recognition.
Events & Fundraising
Conferences, campaigns, and charity drives use pins as a low-cost item with high perceived value, which makes them effective at raising funds.
Why Choose The Custom Patches For Custom Enamel Pins
The Custom Patches builds a dedicated die for every pin, which delivers crisp metal lines and consistent enamel fill across the full run. Die quality is what separates a sharp pin from one with soft, muddy detail.
We use quality base metals, Pantone-matched enamel, and durable plating so pins keep their colour and shine well beyond the first season. Plating thickness is matched to how the pin will be used.
Our team reviews your artwork for producibility before the die is cut, flags anything that will not hold at your chosen size, and handles single design orders as readily as full merchandise programmes.
Custom Enamel Pins For Apparel
Refine your pins with a range of customisation options so every design is unique. Choose your plating, enamel colours and effects, shape, size, and backing type.
Plating & Metal Finishes
Choose gold, silver, black nickel, antique brass, copper, or rainbow plating. Plating sets the character of the pin as much as the enamel does, and it changes how each colour reads against the metal.
Enamel Colours & Effects
Colours are Pantone matched at the enamel stage. Glitter, glow-in-the-dark, translucent, and screen-printed details can be added, and an epoxy dome gives a raised protective finish over the face.
Sizes, Shapes & Cutouts
Pins are typically produced between 20 mm and 50 mm and cut to any outline, including interior cutouts. Moving parts such as spinners, sliders, and danglers can be built into the design.
Backing & Attachment
Choose a butterfly clutch, rubber clutch, locking back, or magnetic back. A custom back stamp can be added to the reverse, and pins can be mounted on printed backing cards for retail display.
Frequently Asked Questions
Each design requires its own die, so pins carry a minimum quantity and a one-time die cost. That cost does not repeat, which means reorders of the same design are considerably cheaper than the first run. Send us your design and quantity and we will confirm both figures.
Butterfly clutches are the standard and suit most merchandise. Rubber clutches grip more firmly and are better for pins worn on soft fabric or in motion. Locking backs are the right choice for awards and anything valuable enough that losing it matters.
Vector artwork is best since every coloured area on a pin has to be separated by a metal line. Raster images can be converted, and we will do that for you. Very thin lines and small text may need thickening to survive production, and we flag anything at risk before the die is cut.
Quality plating resists tarnishing, and enamel does not fade. Hard enamel holds its polished surface longest because the face is flat and level. Soft enamel shows surface wear a little sooner, since the raised metal lines take contact first.
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