What clear means in branding
Transparency, literal and figurative — the product shows what it holds. We stock 56 clear shades across 1,652 products.
What clear says about a brand
Clear is a finish rather than a hue, and it signals honesty, simplicity and modernity. On a product it does something no color can: it shows the contents. That is a marketing decision as much as an aesthetic one, and increasingly a security one — clear bags are mandatory at a growing number of stadiums, arenas and schools.
Who uses clear on branded merchandise
Clear works for drinkware where the drink is the point, for stadium-compliant bags, and for anything where showing the contents is the selling point. It also reads as clean and contemporary in a way frosted plastics have made familiar.
Before you send artwork
Printing on clear
A clear product has no background, so an imprint is read against whatever is behind it — which changes constantly. White ink, or a design with a solid block behind it, is the only reliable answer. A one-color logo with fine detail on clear plastic will be legible on a desk and invisible against a window.
Check your imprint against a specific shade in the contrast checker, or read the artwork guidelines for what a printer needs.
The clear shades we stock
Sorted by how many products carry each one. Every link opens the real listing.
- Clear1,056 products
- Translucent Frost106 products
- Translucent Clear48 products
- Clear Bopp42 products
- Clear With Black29 products
- Frost28 products
- Clear With Red26 products
- Clear With Blue23 products
- Frosted20 products
- Frosted Clear19 products
- Clear/Black12 products
- Clear/Red12 products
- Clear/Yellow11 products
- Clear With White11 products
- Clear With Orange10 products
- Clear/Purple10 products
- Clear/Orange10 products
- Clear With Royal Blue9 products
- Clear White9 products
- Clear/Blue8 products
- Clear With Navy8 products
- Clear With Purple7 products
- Clear With Lime Green7 products
- Clear With Green7 products
Showing the 24 best-stocked of 56 clear shades.
Colors that go with clear
- Clear and whiteA white imprint is the only one that reads on clear whatever is behind it.
- Clear and blackWorks when the product will hold a light-colored contents.
- Clear and metallicA silver band on clear reads as precise and modern.
Want every relationship rather than three? Open clear on the color wheel.
Ready to put this on a product?
Tell us the clear shade and the imprint color you want and we will confirm both on a free visual proof before anything is printed. See how to order, browse Clear products, or request a sample to see the shade on the real material.