Garden stakes with raised names: material, letter size and shape

Garden stakes with raised names are one of the easiest useful things to print. This guide gives the numbers that matter.

Material

Use PETG or ASA for anything that stays outside. PLA softens near 60 degrees C, so it can bend in a hot greenhouse. ASA also resists UV.

Letter size

8 to 10 mm for a pot that you read from 40 cm. 15 mm or more for a bed that you pass on a path. Strokes at least 0.8 mm for a 0.4 mm nozzle. Raise the text 0.6 to 1 mm and print the face up.

Shape

A flat face for the name, a pointed tip, rounded corners. About 12 cm in the soil for a pot and 15 to 20 cm for a bed.

Names

Use the common name on the front and the Latin name on the back. Keep the front short.

Contrast

Dark on light or light on dark. Not green on green.

Shapiful adds your text to an STL in the browser, so one stake design can carry twelve different names. Open Shapiful.

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