These custom cartoon acrylic fridge magnets are built for the way souvenir and cafe retail actually sells: a wall of small, die-cut characters that a visitor picks up, checks twice and drops into a basket at the counter. Each magnet is printed artwork laser-cut from clear acrylic and bonded to a flexible magnet sheet on the reverse, so the piece reads glossy from the front and sticks flat to any steel surface without glue or hardware. The cartoon sets photographed in this page show original demo art: a sprawled bear, scalloped cloud faces, a fried-egg chef, a sleeping star. Your mascot, city icon or cafe character replaces those zones one-for-one. Programs start at 100 pcs per design, samples return in 3-5 days, and restock runs finish 7-15 days after artwork approval, timed for gift-shop seasons rather than hoping on stock.

The Laminate Stack, Shown At An Angle

The first photo is shot low and three-quarter on purpose, because a flat lay hides the only construction question that matters on a magnet: what is actually in the stack. You can read two bonded layers at the edge. The top layer is clear acrylic, and the artwork is printed on its underside, so the viewer looks through a glassy, scratch-shielding sheet at the bear instead of at exposed ink; that is why the whites read bright and the surface carries a wet-looking sheen. Under it sits a dark grey flexible magnet sheet, cut a fraction inside the acrylic outline, which is why a thin clear lip overhangs the darker core along the right side. A magnet backing trimmed smaller than the face is deliberate: it stops the dark layer from showing a grey halo from the front and keeps the polished acrylic rim clean. No metal plate, no clip, no mechanical mount: the bond between the two layers is the entire assembly, and a buyer who never sees a cross-section still feels the difference when the piece picks up off a fridge door.

Back Printing Is Why The Colors Stay Loud

Front-printed magnets take abuse directly: keys, sleeves, thumbs, and the scrape of pulling a piece sideways across a painted appliance. Back printing puts the ink on the underside of the clear sheet and lets half a millimeter of acrylic stand between the artwork and the world. UV flatbed printing builds the color over a white ink layer, which matters because a bare transparent board would let a fridge’s white or steel tone wash pale pastels straight through the art; the white underprint holds flat fills, blush marks and thin black line-art exactly as your file specifies. For shops that want the opposite look, a translucent window variant keeps clear bands inside the silhouette so wall color reads through the art, and we cut those layouts on the same sheet program. Whatever route you pick, the physical sample is photographed face and back before your sign-off, because a magnet that looks wrong at arm’s length on a door never gets a second order from the same tourist.

Two second-order effects of back printing matter on retail floors. First, colors look deeper through the acrylic than they measure on a proof sheet, so skin tones and saturated fills should be approved on the molded piece, never on a screen; our mock-up is calibrated to the board, and the sample photo carries a color reference card next to the magnet. Second, the clear rim catches light differently under warm shop LEDs than under daylight, which is why we ship trial samples for in-store display testing before a museum store commits a season’s restock schedule.

A Family Of Shapes From One Sheet Layout

The second photo scatters a small collection across a white surface with one piece propped on its edge, and that staging mirrors how gift-shop programs are really bought: not one hero magnet, but a family of five to ten shapes that share an art style and hang as a set. Scalloped cloud faces with dot eyes and cheek blush, a green leaf blob, cropped companions at the frame edge: each silhouette is its own die line, yet all of them gang onto the same acrylic sheet in one print run, nesting like a jigsaw so board waste stays low. The upright piece in the middle of that shot shows the glossy dark rear of the magnet layer filling the whole footprint, and its edge-on colors prove the print wraps close to the contour. Sets like this are what make counter displays work: a buyer collecting the bear today comes back for the star next month, and your shelf keeps the series alive without reordering the same SKU twice. Every silhouette in the family counts as its own design against the 100 pcs per design minimum, so a six-shape set is a 600-piece program, and that math is exactly what we mock up before you commit.

Who Buys These And Restocks Them

Three repeat buyers define this category. Destination shops and museum stores run city mascots, landmark creatures and building shapes, restocking their two or three fastest sellers before each tourist season rather than warehousing a whole year of inventory; a 7-15 day clock after artwork approval makes that just-in-time pattern workable. Cafes and bakery chains commission a house character, sometimes paired with menu puns, and reorder per anniversary drop or seasonal flavor, with the magnet doubling as the cheapest loyalty item that never gets thrown away because it lives on the customer’s own appliance. Event and conference teams order mascot magnets as badge add-ons and kids-program gifts, where per-headcount quantities of a few thousand sail past this item’s freight weight but not its price ceiling. All three patterns share one trait: the first order approves a physical piece, and every restock after it is signed off from photographs, which is why our sample archive stays matched to your SKU list for as long as you reorder.

What You Can Specify

• Silhouette: die-cut to any character contour, scalloped lobes, star points and thin limbs included
• Print: full-color UV with white underprint on the rear face; matte or glossy top coat
• Clear accents: transparent bands or full window areas inside the art, cut from the same die line
• Gauge: acrylic face as photographed; sheet thickness confirmed against your artwork size before the run
• Magnet backing: dark flexible sheet bonded full-face, trimmed inside the acrylic outline
• Set planning: 5-10 shape families nested on shared layouts, one freight bill per program
• Retail prep: hang cards, blister packs, OPP sleeves, or counter-tray bulk packing
• Artwork support: a digital proof with the die line drawn from your raster or vector file, at no charge

Specification Snapshot

Designing A Series That Restocks Itself

The retail math on counter magnets rewards planning the series, not the single piece. Start with an anchor character, the mascot or bear that carries your shop, and build four to seven companions off one style sheet: same eye construction, same blush, same outline weight, different pose or object. Buyers who take one magnet rarely stop at one when the shelf shows a collectable set, and the incomplete-wall psychology is worth more than any discount tag. On the production side, a shared style sheet means one print calibration covers the family, so colors match from the first drop to a restock a year later even when files change between runs. We keep your nesting layouts on file; adding an eighth shape to an approved series is a layout extension, not a new project, and it slots into the next open sheet with the restock. Short-run testing works too: 100 pcs per design lets a museum store trial three new silhouettes over one season and scale only the winner next spring, without dead stock on the shelf for the two that flopped.

Reference Pricing Logic For Magnet Programs

Quotes anchor on the 100-piece reference tier per design so series budgets are comparable before files are final. The cost levers we price transparently: total die area per shape, because board and magnet both bill by footprint; the count of separate silhouettes on a shared layout, because nesting efficiency drops as shapes grow odder; print coverage, because full-face color with white underprint costs more ink than a small motif on a clear body; and packing spec, because a blister with hang card is labor a loose-sleeved counter tray does not carry. No unit price is published on this page because an honest figure needs your artwork sizes; send the style sheet and quantity bands and the quote returns itemized by shape, finish and packing so you can trim the series yourself. Freight per piece barely moves this category’s landed cost at retail volumes, so the planning conversation is almost entirely about design count and shelf plan.

Packing And Shipping Brittle Little Squares

Acrylic magnets fail in transit in two ways: corners chip when pieces knock bare-edge to bare-edge, and prints scuff when sleeved packs shift inside a half-empty carton. The standard build stops both: every magnet in its own OPP sleeve, layers separated with foam inside the inner box, inner boxes packed flush so nothing travels, and double-wall outer cases that keep their form under stacked pallets. The carton picture below documents our case standard instead: snug inner boxes, foam between every layer, printed outer cases and a pallet scheme that defends the corners. Ocean, air and courier lanes (DHL, UPS, FedEx, TNT) ship from the same floor, and FBA-bound cartons arrive labeled and case-packed to Amazon requirements. Retail customers who hang a wall display often ask for counter-tray assortments, and we pack those as counted mix cartons so a shop restocks a whole board from one box without sorting.

Related Acrylic Pages For One-Order Programs

Shops that stock these magnets usually complete the counter with charms and keepsakes from the same UV line; browse the wider acrylic items category for the full range. Character art hung on hardware lives at custom double sided acrylic keychains, logo-driven sparkle pieces at custom logo sparkling acrylic keychains, and keepsake prints made from customer photographs at custom photo fridge magnets. Combining SKUs under one purchase order merges approval rounds, one carton spec program and one freight bill.

Get Your Series On The Wall

Send your character sheet, target shapes and first-season quantities through the request quote page, or write the merch desk at [email protected] / +86-15967739086. Expect die lines drawn over your art plus a per-silhouette reference figure in that first reply, typically inside one working day.

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