Period-accurate labels for bottles, cans, jars and tins — wrapped onto the real container geometry, with the declarations each market and decade actually demanded. Fictional brands only.
Part of Chronotype. Free to use. Built by a set graphic designer · licence for paid productions · the research behind it
Every label is drawn at true size on the sheet and mapped onto the vessel in the preview. Turn one off and it leaves the sheet. Click a row to edit that label in the Design page.
Names, houses, addresses and awards are invented. Nothing here reproduces a real producer, appellation, registered mark or government stamp.
Dates are the year the obligation bit, not the year the idea appeared. A label dated before a rule simply does not carry it — which is exactly what makes an anachronism visible on camera.
These are the pieces the studio composes with: change the year or the style and they are restyled along with everything else. To move the finished sheet by hand instead — and have it stay where you put it when the year changes underneath — use By hand on the rail.
Drop an image straight onto the canvas to place it. Double-click a text element to change its wording. The dashed seam marks where a wrap label meets itself behind the vessel — keep the emblem away from it.
Adds a free image element to whichever label the Design page is on.
Keep every image original or licensed. Never scan a real producer's artwork, a real appellation seal or a government duty stamp.
Print at 100%, never “fit to page”. The sheet carries a printed ruler so you can prove the scale before you cut.
The same piece, several ways, in one pass. Everything you are not varying is held still, so the “same” design really is the same design.
A dressed pantry needs forty labels that agree with each other — same printer, same house, same year. If this can't reach what the scene needs, it can be designed for you and delivered print-ready, anywhere.
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