Make Hot Sauce Labels in 5 Steps
Creating the perfect hot sauce isn’t just about nailing the recipe—it’s about making an impression. A well-designed label can captivate customers, reflect your brand's personality, and set your hot sauce apart on the shelves. Whether you're a small business owner or want to scale up your spicy creations, designing an eye-catching label doesn’t have to be overwhelming.
Behind every hot sauce business, there’s a unique story waiting to be told, and every product and label contributes to sharing it. For this reason, we've created five easy steps for making hot sauce labels.
1. Measure Your Bottle
You must ensure your measurements are correct regardless of the material of your hot sauce bottle. Measure the labeling surface of your container using a printable size charts or our free printable ruler.
Recommendation: rounded rectangular labels are usually the most popular shape for hot sauce bottles.
2. How to Choose the Right Size for Hot Sauce Labels
After reviewing the size of your labeling surface, you can check our Hot Sauce Labels to search for your ideal label size. Type your dimensions in our search bar, or visit our hot sauce labels page for popular configurations.
3. Select the Right Material for Your Products
Avoid using paper-based materials since spills can ruin your design. Instead, complement the product's style and your brand image with film-based label materials like blank weatherproof polyester labels or custom film/BOPP labels.
4. Design Your Labels Using Maestro Label Designer
For this part, you can start with a blank or pre-designed label. Our graphic design platform, Maestro Label Designer, contains many hot sauce labels that can be customized to any need. Once you open our design catalog, you can personalize your artwork and arrange different fonts, play with our image library, and more!
Design Tips for Hot Sauce Labels
Some essential graphic elements that should be considered when designing hot sauce labels are:
- Cultural and artistic symbolism: including cultural elements in your hot sauce design can be an essential marketing tool for your products. Texapeppa, Cholula, Texacali, and Texaspepe, among others, currently use this strategy.
- Choose the right color palette: colometry is an essential aspect of the products since different colors can transmit different feelings and emotions. Red, green, and yellow are the standard colors associated with hot sauces and can convey spice levels to customers.
- Choosing the correct typography: use fonts like Slab Serif to communicate important information, such as heat level communication, or stencil fonts to connect the text with the imagery.
Check out this guide for more information on how to design hot sauce labels.
4. Order Your Labels Custom Printed or Print Them Yourself
Don't know whether to print from home or custom print? It all depends on your workflow! We recommend ordering custom labels if you don't have much time for label printing.
5. Apply Your Labels to Your Products
Consider your label the cherry on top of your product!
Before labeling your products, wash your hands and clean your working space to prevent dirt or debris from getting between the label and the surface. Label after filling the containers to avoid spillage.
Recommendations: sometimes, smooth containers aren't rigid enough for labels to stick to, so you can use sandpaper to add some surface tension. Then, carefully peel the label off the sheet, put the middle of your design first, and push forward.
Hot Sauce Labels With a Unique Style
Creating the perfect hot sauce label doesn't have to be overwhelming. It's all about combining creativity and proper labeling techniques. These five steps ensure your hot sauce stands out on shelves and resonates with your target audience. Whether crafting labels at home or ordering custom-printed labels, the key is to make them as bold and unique as the flavors in your bottle.
