Custom Labels For Vario Binders

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I have an HP Ink Jet printer. I have laid out an excel sheet with the cells set up to match the size of the desired label(s), one for the Scott Specialty Binder and two for the Vario G Binder.

I print full sheets using Avery #6470 removable Full Sheet Labels which print out 8.5 by 11 inch pages which contain as many labels as fit on a page. I then carefully cut these up, peel off the protective back, and stick these "removable" labels on the binder backbone.

The trick is the background color and the font color. I play around with custom mixes of blue, yellow, and green as per excel background and font colors on the ribbon at the top of the excel sheet. The idea is to get the letter fonts close to "gold" and the background a compatible, good looking match to the basic binder color. This is done by trial and error, and you must print out and match until you like the look. It is never a perfect match to the basic binder color, but a slight amount of contrast can actually be quite attractive. If you study the pictures in detail, you will see what I mean.

I hope this answers your question. I had a lot of fun doing this, and it is relatively cheap to change these labels as whim and circumstance dictate.

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The Red/Green/Blue settings that I am currently using are 255/204/0 for the "gold" lettering, 0/20/10 for the Specialty Binders, and 0/0/0 (i.e. Black) for the Dark green Vario G binders. Black looked better than anything else I could come up with because the Vario binders are such dark green.

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You also asked for the Font settings of the labels as well as R/G/B.

I chose Calibri lettering for all parts of all labels. I used size 36 for the years (e.g. 1840-1900), size 16 BOLD for "POSTAGE STAMPS" and "DUPLICATES", size 26 for the Specialty album countries, and size 25 BOLD for the Vario G country names.