Free jar label maker online

You can make your own labels for jars at home: pick a jam, honey or spice jar template, type the flavor and net quantity, and set the size to the part of the jar you measured. Print one, stick it on a real jar, then print the batch. No signup.

Make a jar label

Open the jam jar label, type your flavor, and print one to test on the glass.

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Jam, honey and spice jar label examples

These are real renders from the editor. The brands, flavors and batch codes are made up for the examples. Click one and it opens with the same layout and text, ready for your own.

Jam jar front from a flavor list3 x 2 in. Flavor, Ingredients, NetQuantity, Batch columns. Honey jar front3 x 2 in. Brand, variety, one line, net weight. Spice jar lid1 x 1 in. Spice name and a date. Jar wrap3 x 2 in. Brand, product, ingredients, net quantity and date.

Front, wrap or lid: decide where the label goes

A jar gives you three places to put a label, and each one needs a different size.

• Front label. A patch on the flat-looking part of the glass. Good for jam and honey: brand, flavor, net quantity, batch. The jam and honey examples are 3 x 2.
• Wrap. A longer label that goes partway around a straight-sided jar, with room for ingredients on the side. Wraps only work on glass that stays straight from bottom to shoulder.
• Lid. A small square or round label on top. Fine for a spice name and a date, like the 1 x 1 spice example. Not enough room for a list.

Many jars use two: a front for the name and a lid for the date or flavor, so you can read the shelf from above.

How to measure a jar for a label

The size comes from the jar, not from a template. Grab the jar you actually sell and a strip of paper.

1. Wrap the strip around the jar where the label will go. Mark where it starts to lift off the curve. That's your usable width.
2. Measure the height between the base curve and the shoulder. Leave room below the lid or the band so the label doesn't run into the closure when the jar is shut.
3. For a wrap, don't use the full circumference. A wrap that meets itself shows a seam, and jars with a logo panel or a raised edge have less room than the tape says. Leave a gap.
4. Take a little off each edge, then pick label stock that fits inside those numbers.
5. In the editor, set that width and height before you design, so the text lands where the label will.

Candle jars work the same way. Candle labels covers the front and back label for those.

Make jar labels from a spreadsheet, one flavor per row

Five jam flavors don't need five files. Keep them in a sheet, and each row fills one label. Here is the fictional sheet behind the jam example:

1. Open https://app.mylabelmaker.com with the jam sample. The sheet above is already loaded.
2. Click Data and upload your Excel or CSV file, or paste the rows. Keep the column names in the first row.
3. Click a text box on the label, then Variables, and pick the column: Flavor in the middle, Ingredients under it, NetQuantity and Batch on the bottom line.
4. Step through the rows and stop on the longest flavor name. A two-word flavor can wrap on a 3 x 2 front. Shorten it on the label or make the type a little smaller.
5. Open Edit row and tick the flavors you're labeling today. Rows start unticked.
6. Click Print and enter how many copies of each flavor you need.

One flavor on the counter? Print this prints the label on the canvas and asks how many copies. For any other list, printing labels from Excel goes through the columns in more detail.

What you write in the ingredients line is yours to decide. The editor prints your words and doesn't check them. Food labels covers ingredient, allergen and storage text.

Test one on the glass before you print the batch

Print a single label at actual size, with scaling off in the print dialog. Stick it on an empty jar and turn it slowly. Text near the edges bends away on a round jar, so keep the flavor and net quantity near the middle and give the edges nothing important.

Look for wrinkles. A label that wrinkles on the curve is too wide for the flat part, or the jar tapers more than you thought. Go back to your measurement before you print the rest.

Paper, adhesive and finish are your choice. The editor doesn't know whether your stock survives the dishwasher, the freezer or a water bath, so test the real label on a real jar the way you'll use it.

Bottles are a slightly different shape problem. Sauce bottle labels covers bottle wraps and necks.