Most orders land between 8.5cm and 10cm. That range is big enough to read across a car park, small enough to sit on a laptop lid or a drink bottle without dominating it, and it is where the majority of our customers end up.
But "10cm" means very little until you can see it. So here is every square and circle size we print, drawn to scale against something you have in your pocket.
What size fits what?
The quickest way to decide is to think about the surface rather than the sticker.
| Going on | Usual size |
|---|---|
| Laptop lid | 7.5–10cm |
| Drink bottle or travel mug | 5–7.5cm |
| Hard hat or toolbox | 5–8.5cm |
| Car or ute rear window | 10–15cm |
| Van or trailer panel | 15cm and up |
| Product label or packaging | 3–6cm |
| Shopfront glass | 15cm and up |
| Giveaway and event stickers | 5–8.5cm |
What sizes do you actually print?
More than most people expect. The full ladder, by shape:
- Squares and circles — 4, 5, 6.5, 7.5, 8.5, 9, 10, 11, 12.5 and 15cm.
- Die cut — from 5 x 5cm up to 15 x 15cm, plus long formats like 7.5 x 20cm.
- Kiss cut — 5 x 5cm through to 15 x 15cm, including wide options such as 11 x 8cm.
- Rectangles — from 3 x 4.5cm up to 10 x 15cm.
- Bumper — 4 x 10cm through to 6 x 24cm.
- Sticker sheets — A6, A5 and A4.
- Custom shapes — 50, 75, 100 and 125mm.
If none of those is right, we can print up to 60cm — that ceiling exists so a decal can be packed and posted without being damaged in transit. Ask us and we will quote a custom size.
How small can text go?
Smaller than you would think, but there is a floor.
Our cutting is accurate to within about 1mm, so anything critical needs to sit at least 3mm inside the cut line. Below roughly 6pt, fine text starts to lose its counters — the enclosed spaces inside letters like a, e and g — and turns muddy. Thin strokes suffer first.
Two practical consequences. First, if a design has to include a phone number or a website, size the sticker around the text rather than the other way round. Second, if you are putting a QR code on a sticker, give it room: a cramped code at 2cm with a busy background is the most common reason a scan fails.
Does a bigger sticker cost more?
Yes, but quantity moves the price far more than size does.
Take our 4 x 4cm square as a worked example. Ten cost $16, which is $1.60 each. Thirty cost $32, or $1.07 each. Fifty cost $41, or 82c each. A hundred cost $55, or 55c each. Two hundred cost $80, which is 40c each.
So the jump from ten to a hundred cuts the per-sticker cost by around two thirds. If you are hesitating between two sizes, the cheaper move is almost always to pick the size you actually want and order more of them, rather than to shrink the sticker.
Most products start at ten units. Custom shapes are the exception — those start at fifty.
Long formats and sheets
Two cases the square ladder does not cover.
Bumper stickers run from 4 x 10cm up to 6 x 24cm. The width is what matters here: a slogan or a business name needs length to stay legible at a glance, and 4cm of height is usually plenty. For a ute tailgate or a trailer, go to the longer end.
Sticker sheets come as A6, A5 or A4, and the right choice depends on how many designs you are fitting rather than how big each one is. A6 suits three or four designs. A4 comfortably holds a dozen with room to peel them apart. Crowding designs right to the edges of a sheet makes them harder to lift, so leave a little breathing room.
Still not sure?
Print this page. The diagram at the top is drawn to scale, so the shapes come out at close to their real size on A4, and you can hold them against whatever you are sticking them to.
Or just ask. We check every order's artwork free of charge before printing, and if the size looks wrong for the job we will say so before it goes to press — which is a lot cheaper than finding out afterwards.
Browse square, circle, die cut, bumper and sheet options, or the full custom sticker range. Not sure which cut you need either? That is covered in die cut, kiss cut or sticker sheet.
