3D designer
See your box before you order it
- Free, no signup
- Nothing uploaded
- Adds to your quote list
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8 × 6 × 3 in
A proportion preview, not a proof. It shows your artwork on a box at your measurements so you can sanity check the shape and the placement. Print colour on a screen is not print colour on board, and the real proof comes from us before anything goes on press.
Design your box
Nothing is uploaded
It stays on your device. The file is read by your own browser and painted onto the preview, and never sent anywhere.
At 250 boxes this shape lands around $1.99 to $2.66 a box, before shipping.
Your dimensions and colour go on the list with it, so we price the box you just drew rather than a standard one. Download the flat dieline if you want to fold it in paper first.
What it shows
Shape and placement
Your artwork on a box at your real proportions.
What it cannot
Exact colour
A screen makes colour with light, a press makes it with ink.
What comes next
A real proof
Print ready artwork from a designer, free, before anything prints.
How to use it
Four minutes, and one mistake avoided
Most of the money wasted on a first packaging order goes on a box that is the wrong size, not on the wrong supplier. This is the cheapest way to catch that.
Step one
Measure the product, not the box
Length, width and height of what goes inside, then a quarter inch each way for packing. Box dimensions are always internal in this trade, so a 8 × 6 × 3 box holds an 8 × 6 × 3 space.
Step two
Put your real logo on it
Not a placeholder. Half the time a logo that looks right on a website turns out to be far too small on a box face, and it takes about ten seconds to find that out here rather than after 500 of them arrive.
Step three
Fold one in paper
Take the same numbers to the dieline generator, print it at 100 percent and fold it. Putting the actual product into an actual paper box is the only test that never lies.
The honest bit
What a 3D preview is not
Every packaging site with a design studio implies the picture is the product. It is not, and here is exactly where the gap is.
What it gets right
- Proportions. A 12 × 9 × 6 box really is that shape next to a 6 × 6 × 2.
- Placement and scale of your logo on a face.
- Roughly what kraft does to a design compared to white board.
- Whether the whole thing reads at a glance, which is the actual test.
What it does not
- Colour accuracy. Screens emit light, boxes reflect it.
- Finish. Matte, soft touch and spot gloss all look the same here.
- Board texture, flute lines and how thick the walls actually feel.
- Foil, embossing and windows, which we print and this does not draw. A free sample pack answers all four properly.
Straight answers
Questions about the designer
What people ask after their first go with it, including the two answers that are not in our favour.
Is this a real proof?
No, and nothing that runs in a browser is. It is a proportion preview: it shows your artwork on a box at your measurements so you can check the shape, the scale and where the logo sits. The real proof is a print ready file we send you before anything goes on press, and you sign that off.
Where does my artwork go when I upload it?
Nowhere. Your browser reads the file off your own device and paints it onto the preview. It is never sent to us or to anyone else, which matters if the design you are testing has not launched yet. Nothing is stored either, so it is gone when you close the tab.
Will the colour I pick be the colour I get?
Close, not exact, and this is the honest limit of any screen preview. Your monitor makes colour with light and a press makes it with ink on board, and kraft shifts everything further because you are printing onto brown rather than white. Give us a Pantone reference and we will hold to it as tightly as the process allows. A free sample pack is the only way to really see it.
What size should I make it?
Measure your product, then add about a quarter inch each way for packing, more if it needs padding. Measure the inside of a box, never the outside. If you are unsure, put the numbers in here, then download the flat dieline, print it at 100 percent and fold it in paper with your product in it. That costs nothing and catches the mistake that ruins most first orders.
Can I design something this tool does not show?
Yes. It draws four common formats as plain rectangular boxes, which covers most of what people order. Windows, sleeves, inserts, dividers, foil, embossing and custom die cuts are all normal work for us and none of them appear here. Describe what you want on the quote and a designer will draw it.
Do I need finished artwork to order?
No. Send your logo in whatever file you have and we build print ready artwork around it, free, on every order including reorders. A vector file (AI, EPS or PDF) gives the best result. If all you have is a PNG off your website, send it and we will tell you honestly whether it prints cleanly at that size.
Can I print on more than one face?
On a real box, yes, and on this preview one face at a time. Print goes wherever you want it, including the inside of the lid, which is where a good part of the unboxing photograph actually happens. Say so on the quote and it gets drawn properly.
Why does kraft look so different from white here?
Because it genuinely is different. Ink on brown board is not ink on white board: pale colours go muddy, and white is its own separate print rather than the absence of ink. The preview shows the shift roughly, not exactly. If your design leans on it, get a sample before you commit to a run.
Can I save a design and come back to it?
Not on our side, and that is the same decision that keeps your artwork private: nothing here leaves your browser, so there is nothing on our end to save it to. What does carry over is the box itself. Add it to your quote list with the dimensions attached and it will still be there tomorrow.
Does the preview show real board thickness?
No. It draws six flat faces, so board thickness, texture, a window, a foil stamp and the way the corners actually meet are all outside what it can show. It is honest about proportion and about nothing else. The free sample pack covers the rest, and it covers it better than any screen would.
Keep going
Free, and no email needed
Three tools and a guide, all of which work right now without giving us anything.
Print the flat template
True to scale dieline for your dimensions. Print it at 100 percent, fold it in paper, put your product in it.
Open the dieline tool →
Price it properly
Live estimator for every format, size and quantity, with what actually moves the number.
Run the cost estimator →
Hold the real board
A free sample pack in the post. The only way to judge colour, finish and thickness.
Request a sample pack →
Drew something you like?
Rather just email? hello@boxcrisp.com