Custom Cute Enamel Pins
your original characters only · pastel-ready enamel palette · shop-seller friendly
Cute is a craft discipline with real rules: rounded silhouettes, oversized heads, dot eyes low on the face, blush marks, and pastel cells with room to breathe. Our artists work in the style daily for the Etsy and convention sellers who built this category.
One boundary stated plainly: we produce original characters, not licensed ones. Your bear in a raincoat, yes; an existing cartoon mouse, no. Original always trades better at the table anyway.
Making cute survive production
Pastel enamels need stronger metal lines to keep definition, blush marks need a minimum dot size, and dot eyes want black enamel rather than struck metal. These are the production details that separate a crisp kawaii pin from a muddy one, and the proof handles all of them.
For backpacks and shops
Cute pins live on backpacks, jacket collars, and ita-bags, so we default to rubber clutches (kind to fabric) with locking backs offered for the collectors. Sellers: 1.25 inch cute designs at 100 pieces cost about $2.60 and hold a $10 to $12 shop price with the best sell-through of any pin genre.
Pricing
| QUANTITY | PRICE PER UNIT | ORDER TOTAL |
|---|---|---|
| 25 | $4.80 | $120.00 |
| 100 | $2.60 | $260.00 |
| 500 | $1.45 | $725.00 |
| 1,000 | $0.98 | $980.00 |
Cute pins run the standard enamel tiers; locking-back upgrades for collectors add 25 cents.
Common questions
Yes, the redraw can push proportions toward the style: bigger head, softer corners, blush added. You approve the cuteness calibration on the proof, an actual sentence we get to write.
Beautifully in both finishes: soft enamel gives pastels a matte-adjacent charm, hard enamel a candy gloss. The proof lists Pantone pastels per cell so the palette stays consistent across reorders.
No, licensed and recognizable third-party characters are declined at proofing. Original characters in a shared style are fine, and where the line is fuzzy we say so before you pay.