Custom kraft boxes use the natural brown paperboard that’s become a favorite with handmade, organic and eco-minded brands. It looks honest, prints well in dark colors and recycles easily.
Kraft soap boxes are a classic for natural soap makers. Kraft corrugated boxes work for shipping, and kraft pizza boxes give a wood-fired look. Read what kraft paper is for the details.
Dark inks and white ink look best on brown board. Bright colors appear softer than on white board, so many brands keep the design simple.
More options in eco-friendly packaging, soap boxes and shipping boxes.
For anything going out by courier, kraft corrugated boxes are the safe call. Flutes in the middle, kraft liners on both faces, and the board picked to suit the weight, single wall for most things and double for something like a box of glass jars. The brown hides scuffs well too. Handy after a few days in a delivery truck.
Kraft takes a rubber stamp or a printed label nicely too, if you’d rather keep printing to a minimum and brand each box by hand at the packing table.
Custom kraft pizza boxes are kraft corrugated as well, folded into the familiar flat square with vents for steam. Grease does show on brown board eventually, so if your pizza is on the oily side we’d talk about a liner sheet.
Soap makers have kind of adopted kraft as their own color. Kraft soap boxes come as tuck ends, sleeves or window styles for bars and gift sets, and a small die-cut hole lets shoppers sniff without opening anything. For everything else on the smaller side, candles or tea or jewelry, eco-friendly kraft boxes are cut to your product size so there’s less empty space and less filler.
One printing tip. Brown board darkens every ink a little, so a bright red ends up closer to brick, and we’ll flag that when we send your proof.
Yes, plain kraft is widely recyclable.
Yes, though colors look softer than on white board.
Kraft corrugated board is strong enough for most products.
Yes, with a food-safe or grease-resistant coating where needed.
