Color guide - custom toys

Color palette

You can select up to 3 colors for your custom toy from our palette - click on the image below to see full resolution:

Coloring styles - what to expect

In general, silicone hand pouring is not an exact science. Results often depend on silicone firmness, weather -> temperature that affect "pot time" (how long silicone stays liquid before starting to harden and cure), the batch size, and for all I know, a goat sacrifice on a full-moon may be in order to get a triple vertical split right.

Here are general guidelines on what you can expect, depending on firmness and coloring style you picked for your custom toy:

1) Fade coloring style

• fade = 2 or mode colors stacked horizontally on top of each other
• typically easy to replicate from inspo photos
• soft silicone = usually more blending of stacked colors, more gradual transition, some marbling in-between color transition
• medium firm silicone = usually less blending of the colors, so the color transition can be more harsh

 

2) Vertical split coloring style

• vertical split = 2 or more colors side-by-side vertically
• soft silicone = usually more straight the line between colors
• medium firm silicone =usually the silicone sort of "stacks" instead of pouring, so there can be sort of marble-y/feather-y effect between the colors
• 3 colors in a vertical split - typically, the middle color gets "eaten" by the front and back colors so it ends up as a thin line in between them - this is why we recommend a nice contrasting darker color for the middle color so that it's at least somewhat visible. I do not recommend this color combination unless you can live with a very unpredictable result of this style of coloring

3) Marble coloring style

• marble = mix of 2 or more colors in a marble-like effect
• soft silicone = usually looser marble due to high silicone viscosity
• medium firm silicone = usually tighter marble due to low silicone viscosity
• extremely hard to replicate from inspo photos, will always come out differently, especially if inspo was poured in different firmness
• 3 colors in a marble - typically, the pour goes like this: color A + B in a marble, transitioning into color B + C in a marble. Color A + C may meet somewhere in the middle, or may not - again, this may be a goat sacrifice type of situation to go exactly as planned

4) Mixed coloring style

• you can also request mixed coloring style, which is typically something like this:
  • fade + marble (one color on top fading into marble of 2 colors)
  • fade + split (one color on top fading into 2 vertically split colors)
  • split + fade (2 colors vertically split on top, fading into 1 color on the base)
  • any other combination
    
• some combinations are harder to nail, like marble + fade, as you can see below

Conclusion

If you have more questions about coloring, shoot us an e-mail and we'll be happy to help you choose the best combination/technique for you. Do keep in mind, that color presets are always a good option for reliable results - we pour them daily, they are easily replicated and you won't get any surprise "this is not what I expected" results.