Step-by Step Guide to Designing Custom Fans

Here is our step-by-step guide to designing custom fans whether you are shopping promotional fans, logo personalized hand fans for wedding, and souvenirs or hand fan party favors.

Personalized hand fans are purposeful and easy to take anywhere, making them the best promotional item when you want to boost the visibility of your logo or marketing design. They are the ultimate accessory for milestone celebrations, like weddings, birthday, anniversary, graduation, and other special occasions. And, they are both purposeful and beautiful as gifts. That is why your business, wedding, and events should have personalized fans. 

Sounds simple enough - until you stare at the many styles of hand fans and customization options that each hand fan style allows, making each of them the perfect candidate for your brand’s promotional fans or the wedding fans and hand fan gifts or party favors for your wedding and other special occasions. 

So, here is our step-by-step guide to designing your custom fans:

Step 1: Pick your logo or design

It is your personalized hand fans, after all, which is why we recommend choosing a unique design, such as your logo or original work of art that will make your personalized fans look and feel extraordinary. A unique design is a must because a popular design might instantly cause your fans to lose its magic, particularly if lucky recipients can see your design from other hand fans. 

Step 2: Select your hand fan

Certainly, you can print your design on all the hand fan styles we have in-store. But, which hand fan style will be the best - particularly, will best highlight your logo or design and will be both practical and perfect for your guests and gift recipients considering their taste and the latter’s purported use for them? 

 Half-Moon-Shaped or Full-Shaped Fans

If you, basically, have a logo, then you can easily choose the hand fan that you need. But, if you have a wallpaper design, then it is best to select a style from our full-color hand fans. 

Half-moon-shaped hand fans are great for most designs. But, if you have a design that contains significant details in all directions, i.e., on the top, right, bottom, and left sides, then it is best to consider a full-shaped fan, like the circle fan or oval-shaped hand fan of our foldable nylon fans and full-color paddle fans, to ensure that your custom fans will have all or most of the significant details of your design.

1-Color Logo or Multi-Color Design

If you have a 1-color logo, then basically, every hand fan style that you choose will be perfect for your promotional fans, wedding fans, and hand fan party favors. But, if you have a multi-color logo, a full-color artwork, or a complex work of art, then a personalized fan from our collection of full-color hand fans will be the perfect choice. Hand fans personalized with multi-color prints are made from scratch, select styles even allow you to choose the hand fan frame to match.

Folding Fans or Paddle Fans

For the bride or party host, who enjoys the glamor of the Japanese sensu, Chinese Zheshan fans, or Spanish fans, then you will surely appreciate a folding paper fan, wood fan, or silk fan for your logo personalized fans, wedding fans, hand fan gifts, or party favors. 

But, if you are leaning for a chill event, if you are looking to quickly hand your fans to your followers, or if you are having your big day in an outdoor venue, like a garden, beach, or stadium, or an indoor event or party place with a well-attended number of guests or audience, then match it with paddle fans, which are generally, easier to transport and hand to a large number of guests and which are apt to keep their user cool with a strong breeze because they are usually made with a thick and sturdy frame or durable materials, like PVC and nylon. 

Small, Medium-sized, or Big Hand Fan

At a glance, our 8.25-inch personalized silk fans and personalized paper fans, which are instantly the choice for promotional fans, wedding fans, and hand fan party favors, are small, but their standard 3.75” long x 3.75” wide print area for your logo or design will actually render your logo visible from across a room.

Users also love these personalized silk or paper folding fans because of their sophisticated look, handy size, which approximates the size of the ladies’ Japanese hand fans for summer, and refreshing breeze that is perfect for keeping cool on a hot day, for an extra boost in comfort, such as when one is inside an air-conditioned room, or when their user would love to indulge the chill of a cold or chilly weather. 

Medium-sized hand fans typically measure 10” long for folding fans and approximately 9.5” to 10” wide for paddle fans. Examples of these are our personalized Spanish fans and personalized paddle fans, which lovers of premium personalized hand fans will surely have lots to love about. Given their large yet handy size, you will never go wrong having these personalized fans as your logo personalized fans, promotional fans, wedding fans, or party fans for summer and for your events or celebrations in a tropical climate. 

For your artistic designs and for the standout display of your logo or finished work of art, we recommend no less than the personalized large Kung Fu fans. As if the large print area for your logo is not enough, the fabric of these large personalized hand fans also absorb the color of the ink excellently, thus, the truly captivating and vivid printout of your logo or design on them. Planned as Kung Fu fans, thus, their durability for sports and martial arts, personalized large Kung Fu fans actually gained popularity among our loyal clientele’s wedding fans and souvenirs for milestone celebrations and events.