Label layout
Round sticker labels (A4)
Twenty-four 40 mm round stickers on a single A4 sheet, laid out in a 4 × 6 grid. Useful for product seals, jar lids, packaging dots, branding stickers and event reward stickers. The generator clips each cell to a circle so anything outside the 40 mm disc is removed before printing.
Exact layout values
| Page size | A4 (210 × 297 mm) |
| Grid | 4 × 6 (24 stickers) |
| Sticker diameter | 40 mm |
| Top margin | 19 mm |
| Left margin | 17 mm |
| Horizontal gap | 5 mm |
| Vertical gap | 5 mm |
Designing for a circle
The corners of any 40 × 40 mm artwork will be lost. Keep critical content inside an inner circle of about 32 mm diameter (a 4 mm safe-area inset). Place the most important text or logo within the central 25 mm — anything in the outer ring should be decorative.
Reading the typography
Round labels read best with short, centred text. Sentences longer than three or four words tend to fight the curve. If you need more text, either run it in a circular path along the edge or step up to a 60 mm or 75 mm sticker. For pricing and date codes, sans-serif faces at 10 pt or above are easiest to read at a glance.
Jars, bottles and the moisture problem
Product stickers meet condensation, oil and handling. Laser toner tolerates moisture; inkjet needs coated film stock or an over-laminate. For candle jars and cosmetics, matte laminate also stops shelf-scuffing — the difference between week one and month six on a shelf.
Curved surfaces add one more rule: below roughly 60 mm of jar diameter, large circles wrinkle. Use a smaller circle or switch to an oval — wrinkle-free beats big.
Frequently asked questions
What diameter are these stickers?
Each sticker is 40 mm in diameter. The generator clips the label area to a circle so any artwork outside that radius is cut off when printed.
How many fit on an A4 sheet?
24 stickers in a 4 × 6 grid, with a 5 mm gap between each in both directions.
Do I need a special hole punch or cutter?
Only if you are printing on plain paper and need to cut them out. If you are using pre-die-cut round sticker sheets, the printer just lays down ink and the sticker shapes are already there. Match the generator's diameter and grid to the die cuts on your sheet.
How much bleed do round labels need?
Extend background colour and patterns at least 1–2 mm past the circle edge. Cutting and die-punching tolerances are smaller than for rectangular labels, but bleed still helps avoid a thin white halo at the edge.
What are typical uses?
Round stickers are popular for product seals (especially food and cosmetics), jar lids, packaging closures, branding dots, school reward stickers and small promotional giveaways.
Can I cut round stickers by hand?
Realistically, no — hand-cut circles read as hand-cut from across a room. Circles are the one shape that demands kiss-cut stock: sheets where the circle is pre-die-cut into the face paper and peels off the backing. The template’s job is to land your artwork inside those pre-cut circles.
How do I get colour to the very edge of the circle?
Print the artwork 2–3 mm larger than the cut circle so the die falls inside the ink — the same bleed logic as rectangular print. On pre-cut sheets you cannot move the die, so oversize the artwork in the design, not the label in the generator.
Which circle sizes are actually stocked?
40 mm and 51 mm dominate the A4 kiss-cut market (24-up and 15-up layouts respectively), with 37 mm and 63.5 mm as common alternates. Measure the real sheet — diameter, margins, gaps — and enter those numbers in the generator; “about 40 mm” is how artwork ends up crescent-mooned.