Filament Swatch Card with Label

This filament swatch card features:

• 2 lines of text for filament brand, material type, and color name

• A variety of thickness samples (0.5mm, 1mm, 1.5mm, and 2mm) to illustrate material opacity

• Storage options include:

  • Holes for loosely tying cards together with a ball chain, zip ties, or if you don't have a lot of cards, turned into a book with an 8-32 nut and bolt

  • Card slot holders like the Holder for Filament Swatch Card with Label by @MattCooper

Recommended print settings include:

• Install the free Open Sans font by Steve Matteson that you can get from Google Fonts at https://fonts.google.com/specimen/Open+Sans

• Use one of the *.3mf files included so that you get the text objects already aligned and using Open Sans for consistency

• Single perimeter on top surfaces = All top surfaces (this setting maximizes text legibility)

• Seam position = Aligned

• Since these are meant to showcase your filament, I recommend printing at whatever your typical “nice” settings are. For me, that includes:

  • 0.15 layer height

  • 0.2 mm first layer

  • 3 perimeters (only 1 on top)

  • 7 top solid layers

  • 6 solid bottom layers

  • Infill 10% gyroid

  • No supports

• Edit the text

  • One at a time, right-click the text objects in the object tree of your slicer

    • Ensure these settings are on both text objects:

      • Font = Open Sans

      • Font Weight = Bold

      • Font Size / Height = 6mm

      • Depth = 2mm

      • Operation = Cut

  • Use lowercase text to maximize the size of the text while minimizing how much horizontal space the text takes up (for example capital “L” takes up much more space than lowercase “l”)

  • The 1st text object is for the brand and material type, like “prusament pla”

  • The 2nd text object is for the color name, like “galaxy black”

  • If the brand or color name is too long to fit, you may reduce the character gap in order to maintain the font size / height. For example, “polymaker polyterra pla” needs a value of -0.15mm

• For an extra touch, change the color of the filament in your slicer so that the thumbnail shown on your printer matches your filament color. Look up the color of your filament in an index like https://filamentcolors.xyz/library/ or use the eyedropper tool in your slicer's color picker to extract the color from a photo