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What are Ice cream cone sleeves?
As the name shows, it is a geometrical figure; the cone and sleeves are the covers. These are the couture’s of cone ice-creams and food-approved. Their major is to retain the safety of the cones and waffles’ biscuits from the environment. Cone sleeves preserve the taste, freshness, crispiness, and shape. According to research, aluminum-coated cone covers can preserve ice cream for up to 18 months. On the other hand, marketers use them for marketing, branding, and exhibition of the taste.
The sleeve is the protection to the ice cream; another benefit is handling of ice cream in the customers’ hands. Whenever someone eats cone ice cream, the chances of getting messy hands are high. Covers or sleeves help kids and eaters to eat in a manner-able way.
Structure of an ice cream cone sleeve
If we talk about the cone sleeves structure, we have two choices;
- Flat or unfolded structure
- 3D view after folding around the cone
For clarity, we have shown both below.
Flat view of cone sleeves
3D view of cone sleeves
Now, ice cream manufacturers have introduced a variety of ice cream cones. These are multilayers, multi-colors, and shapes. So, ice cream packaging suppliers have introduced customized and personalized cone sleeves. However, there are standard sizes available in the market. Here is the ice cream cones’ varieties list with their introduction.
- Cake cones
- Waffle cones
- Sugar Cones
- Pretzel cones
- Waffle bowls
- Chocolate dip cones
- Twin cones
- Cone jackets
When creamy ice creams get mixed with crispy and crunchy outer, it becomes very yummy. But they melt soon; that’s why such couture’s added peace to your life. Because of their importance, these are now essentials of the ice-creams. If you ice cream shop, people come to eat crispy covered ice-creams and you should have all the tastes. Above mentioned cones are made up of different materials, and each of them has a different taste. Thus, variety in cones make ice cream parlor best, kids favorite and retain maximum customers.
Cake Cones are explained
These are flavored cones, are lightweight, and carry two scoops of ice creams. These are also called wafer cones, and they are sweet for the kids as well. These are served to the kids and covered with ice cream cone covers.
Waffle cones covers
These cones are made up of dark brown sugar and molasses. These are crunchy and flavored and strong enough to carry more weight than the ice cream. Their exterior is waffle-made, and it has a perfect grip for the kids. Waffle cones manufacturers have small, medium, and large size waffles with custom printed sleeves. See, covered and uncovered waffle cones. What makes them different from others is the top diameter. They have a rough and incomplete top diameter.
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Sugar Cones
As the names show, such cones are sweatier as compared to the cake cones. Sugar cones are the perfect alternative with slightly higher sweetness. Such cones are made for sweet lovers and kids. Add to this; such cones are thicker and crispier. The extra addition of fiber makes them strong and enhances their grip in the hands. On and two yummy scoops are set in them, easily. Sugar cones are wrapped in custom-printed cone covers and jackets.
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Pretzel Cones and their sleeves
Pretzel cones are used for 1-2 scoops of the cones. These are the salty alternative to the sugar cones. Such cones are appended with salt; their crispy nature and cool slated tasted with sweet ice cream make them yummy and tasty.
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Other styles of pretzel cones are explained in this image
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Most of the time, their exterior designs are attractive and mouthwatering. So, no need to cover them or wrap them in the ice cream cone covers.
Waffle Bowls
These are large size bowls for ice cream lovers. Most of the time, foodies love them because they can carry multiple scoops, and these are bowls in shapes. Often, ice cream manufacturers offer custard, cakes, yogurt in these eatable bowls. Again, there is no need to wrap these bowls inside wrappers.
Chocolate dipped ice cream cones and their covers
Chocolate lovers and kids like chocolates; that’s why cone manufacturers dip the top in chocolate. Chocolate dip adds an extra layer around the top of the cone. This coated rim, when mixed with creamy ice cream, makes a yummy and mouthwatering taste. Their texture is lightweight. That’s why such cones require a sleeve around them.
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Twin cones and their covers
Wow, twins mean there are two cones and one stand. These are fit for the couples, two flavors or scoops in one treat. Two places side by side, this retains the mixing of two flavors. Twin cones stands are sturdy, and their grip is also perfect. Such cones have the same covers as sugar cones because their base is the same.
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twin-cones
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Cone jackets
We would say jacketed cones when cones are covered with custom printed wrappers, jackets, or sleeves. So, no extra napkins or tissues are required; such jackets kick the contamination and getting messy in the hands. Cleanly eat cones, and retain the contamination of the cones.
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Different types of ice cream cone sleeves
Cone sleeves are just made up of paper; there are a variety of papers in the market. Behind every paper, there are its features and the purpose of the packaging.
- Gold foil paper made ice cream cone sleeves
- Logo printed ice cream cone sleeves
- Aluminum foil paper cone sleeves
- Custom printed paper cone sleeves
- Cardboard cone sleeves
Gold foil paper made ice cream cone sleeves
Gold foil paper made ice cream cone sleeves 
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Such foiling cone sleeves are prepared with an additional layer of foiling. Usually, there are few common foiling in the packaging industry, and these are listed below;
- Gold foil ice cream cone sleeves
- Silver foil sleeves
- Green foiled sleeves
- Blue foil
- Red foil cone sleeves
When an additional foil layer is appended, cones become glow and glitter. Add to this additional layer protection from the sunlight, and these are durable cone sleeves. If we compare them with plastic-made cones, they are eco-friendly and recyclable. Such cone sleeves could be print in either of the ways;
- Simple plain foil cone sleeves
- Logo printed foiled cone sleeves
Logo printed ice cream cone sleeves
Printing a logo is helpful in branding, but what sort of logo should you have? For cone ice cream manufacturers, the following types of logos are good to print.
- The logo should tell the flavor and taste of the ice cream
- It should be vibrant in color
- It should be kids favorite
Different types of logos are being used for the ice creams. A few of them are listed below;
- Iconic logo
- Letter marks logo
- Monogram logos
- Symbols
- Abstract logo
- Funny logos
- Combination mark logos
- Mouthwatering logos for ice creams
- Letter
- Emblem logo
A unique logo tells about the vision and mission of the ice cream manufacturer. Here are few logo examples for you;
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Aluminum foil paper cone sleeves
In the food, beverages, and pharma industries, the use of aluminum foiled boxes and packaging is mandatory. Such foils could be used for the packaging of;
- Tea and coffees packaging
- Biscuits packaging
- Chocolate packaging
Here are the benefits of having aluminum foil boxes and packaging
Actually, aluminum foil is being used in food packaging, and it is a huge technical advantage. It protects the food items and works as a barrier. The main purpose behind its use is the safety of the products by retaining the sunlight to enter inside the layer. It acts as a barrier for bacteria, oxygen, contaminated material, moisture, water, humidity, light, and other rays. Such foils are available in 8 colors. For the production of aluminum foil ice cream covers, such sheets come in rolls. These are heavy-weight rolls and further into any desired shape and size.
There are a couple of variations in this material, like
- Paper foil lamination
- Laminated foils
- 2ply Laminated foils
- 3ply laminated films
- 4ply lamination films
Custom printed paper cone sleeves
Getting customize designs, shapes, colors, and printing stuff may cost you higher. Fortunately, it is a way of branding and marketing your ice cream business. These are printed after getting mockups of the ice creams, die-cutting, and printing. Brands that are more conscious of their audiences focus on custom printed paper-made cone sleeves. These are affordable and could be ordered online easily.
Benefits of getting customized paper made covers for the ice creams
- Ice cream manufacturer can save cost
- Deliver corporate social responsibility
- Generate more sales
- Control the cost of packaging
- Crash the competition
- Satisfy the customers very well
- Become the point of attractions among competitors
Cardboard made ice cream packaging
One of the best covers for cone ice creams, great grip, and thicker covers. Printing anything on cardboard is easier, and these could be cut into a variety of shapes and sizes easily. Actually, ice cream packaging is made up of a special type of paper and cardboard. This is also knowns as wet-strength paperboard. It contains polyethylene; it retains its strength even under very low temperatures. Because of polyethylene linings, ice cream packaging survives at the freezing point for a long period. So, the paper board-made ice cream cone covers are used as sleeves, and they survive for a long period.
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Finding the right size for your waffle cone covers
It is difficult to measure the size of a cone, especially if it is a twin cone. Packaging engineers measure with the help of the Vernier caliper and other meters. Actually, cone top diameter, as well as bottom diameter, is measured. Below, we have made charts for the standard sizes of the cones. You can opt for the right size accordingly.
What should be measured in an ice cream cone cover?
For accurate measurement of an ice cream cover, we need to following things;
- Height of the cone sleeve
- Its diameter from the top
- Its angle
- Required paper thickness in GSM
- Foil micron
The major purpose of any packaging are very much clear; branding and protection of the product. For protection, single and multilayered cones are produced. These are printed in a single color, two colors, four colors, and up to 8 colors. Whatever the size of the cone, its functions would base on the materials. Is it refrigerated, moisture-proof, and retains the crispy nature of the lightweight texture of the cones? It depends upon the material section for ice cream packaging.
We have curated the cone jackets in 6 standard sizes;
- Ultra mini size cone sleeves – 130mm
- Micro mini size cover or sleeve – 133mm
- Micro size cone sleeve – 136 mm
- Mini cone sleeve – 146mm
- Standard size cone sleeves – 151mm
- Jumbo size cone sleeves – 165mm
Here is the table with accurate standard sizes of cone ice creams jackets/covers:
| # | Cone Name | Height | Diameter | Angle | Paper | Foil | The volume of ice cream |
| 1 | Ultra mini size cone sleeves | 130 mm +/- 1 mm | 50.5 mm +/- 1 mm | 22 | 75-80 GSM | 6-7 Micron | 35 ml – 40 ml |
| 2 | Micro mini size cover | 133 mm +/- 1 mm | 51.7 mm +/- 1 mm | 22 | 75-80 GSM | 6-7 Micron | 40 ml – 45 ml |
| 3 | Micro size cone sleeve | 136 mm +/- 1 mm | 52.9 mm +/- 1 mm | 22 | 75-80 GSM | 6-7 Micron | 50 ml – 60 ml |
| 4 | Mini cone sleeve | 146 mm +/- 1 mm | 56.8 mm +/- 1 mm | 22 | 75-80 GSM | 6-7 Micron | 60 ml – 80 ml |
| 5 | Standard size cone sleeves | 151 mm +/- 1 mm | 58.7 mm +/- 1 mm | 22 | 75-80 GSM | 6-7 Micron | 90 ml – 100 ml |
| 6 | Jumbo size cone sleeves | 165 mm +/- 1 mm | 64.2 mm +/- 1 mm | 22 | 75-80 GSM | 6-7 Micron | 100 ml – 120 ml |
Information you are required to order ice cream packaging
Getting the right design for your waffle jackets is a step-by-step process. This starts from the product’s features, then target audiences, and ends on the customer’s behavior.
After this, cone sleeve suppliers need information about the brand. Good cone sleeves tell about the brand through its visual effects. Its design includes the following major factor.
- Colors of the cone sleeves (CMYK or PMS)
- Fonts (Their weight, font style, and its resemblance with parent brand font style)
- Logo (for designing sleeves, suppliers need a vector file of your logo)
When we talk about fonts, they make the image in the mind of the customer. So, any font which is more clear, visible, and thematic would be preferred. For ice cream packaging, you can try these fonts;
Helvetica Neue – Bold
Printing on cardboard boxes may sink the ink, and its color could be fade. But this font helps and reduces this effect.
Franklin Gothic
It is also good for cardboard ice cream packaging.
Cooper Black
Font for the cardboard packaging.
Futura font for ice cream packaging
This font is used on folding cartons.
Pacifico font for folding cartons
Chunk Five for folding cartons of ice cream:
Chunk Five for folding cartons of ice cream
NEXA – Lightbox
This font is good for the Litho-lamination process.
Seaside Resort
Font for Litho-lamination process.
Museo Slab
Font for Litho-lamination process.
Here are the ice cream cone packaging fonts – You might have to pay for them
Creation Station font for ice cream covers
Font Source: https://www.dafont.com/creationstation.font
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Claire O’Connor created this lovely font for fun use. And Ice-creams are nothing without such beautiful couture’s. This is the kid’s favorite theme, and you can get this for free online.
Ice cream sandwich font
Image source: https://hyperpix.net/fonts/ice-cream-fonts/
Font source: https://hyperpix.net/fonts/ice-cream-fonts/
The Skyhaven Fonts design it, and it could be used for coffee menus, ice cream packaging, and other food items.
Ice Cream party ice cream font
Font source: https://www.dafont.com/icecreamparty.font
Image source: https://hyperpix.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/icecreamparty-ice-cream-font.jpg
Andy Greer designed it, and his jelly rhythmic movement alphabets in the fonts could be used for ice cream packaging, kid’s fun cards, and birthday cards.
Yummy ice cream font
Image source: https://www.creativefabrica.com/designer/brithostype/ref/237854/
Font source: https://www.dafont.com/yummy-ice-cream.font
Britho Style designs it, this is not free, and you can get it to license for commercial use. This is the creative font for the ice cream packaging, greeting cards, and baby girl’s inspiration.
Summer Square font-family
Image source: https://www.1001fonts.com/summer-square-font.html
Another creative innovation could be used for ice cream packaging, cone jackets, waffle cone covers printing, chocolate dip ice cream sleeves, cookies, and biscuits packaging.
Hello, Creamy Font
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This font shows ice-creams are melting. It contains a series of doodle characters, and this is best for delicious packaging styles. This is a premium font, and it is created by fopifopi.
Summers Ice Cream Font
Source: https://www.fontspace.com/summers-ice-cream-font-f5420
Image source: https://hyperpix.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/summers-ice-cream-font.jpg
Summer Nytz introduced it, and it is used for alphabets learning too for the kids. The ice cream cones inspire it; it contains all the alphabets. It is also used for the decoration of birthdays and the packaging of delicious and yummy products.
Scakter Dudes Font
Image source: https://hyperpix.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/skater-dudes-ice-cream-font.jpg
Font source: https://www.dafont.com/skaterdudes.font
Skater Dudes is a collection of alphabets that are used for ice cream packaging. These are good for sugar, and waffle cone covers printing.
Bubble Gum font for waffles covers and Jackets
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Font source: https://hyperpix.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/bubblegums-ice-cream-font.jpg
As the font image shows, it is a collection of font families that includes bubble-like alphabets. These are perfect when used for snack covers printing, waffle, and covers for cone ice creams.
The Ice Cream Font
Image source: https://creativemarket.com/fluffyartstudio/4144391-THE-ICE-CREAM-%282-FONTS-IN-1-PACKAGE%29?u=HyperpixStudio
This creative font includes the melting alphabets; these are two fonts in one package. This font could be used in animations, kid’s cartoons, winter product promotions, and ice cream cone cover to create a cooling effect in the customer’s mind.
IceCream Berrie’s Font
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Ice Cream berries is a creative and stylish font for birthdays, cone covers, and waffles sleeves. Its bubble-like alphabets and slightly melting effect is mouthwatering.
Content and Copywriting for the ice cream cone covers and Jackets
After the font selection, the next step is copywriting. Customers read this content, and it tells about the brand and its vision.
- Written copy, it might be the product name, description, and one-liner summary
- Image, this is telling about flavor, nutrition’s, ingredients, taste and manipulates the emotion.
- Other required marks are symbols like; barcodes, awareness symbols, information about nutrition, association marks.
Understanding the budget of cone sleeve printing
When you are ordering cover and sleeves for delicious ice creams, the major threat for the manufacturer is the cost of production.
- On-time fixed cost
- Per unit cost of production, whenever you need more sleeves
On-time fixed cost covers the designing cost, sampling, creative’s cost, copyright cost, patents, and modeling cost. Cone ice cream manufacturers pay this to get their design as and assets and their copyrights. Creative artwork designing is a costly process, and you get the vector artwork file for your logos and designs.
Per unit, the cost includes the printing cost of each waffle cover or jacket. It depends upon the number of units are producing. The total cost is x times the unit cost. This includes the labor cost, material cost, production cost, machine cost, and running cost.
Few tips for the ice cream cone manufacturers about sleeves
- Understand the target audiences to whom you are going to sell. Add to this consider the customers’ geo-location and attitude and learn how much conscious they are about packaging and branding. Either they like inner as well as outer packaging design, what are the trends in cone ice cream sleeves printing, and what sort of story your sleeve should tell?
- Choosing the right type of material, the right type of design for sleeves helps in cost and makes a win-win situation in the market. Understanding the competition, budget constraints, and printing stuff matters.
- Finally, when you are going for printing, check flat samples of designs, die-lines, die-cutting, mockup, template, and file formatting. Get the right type of color codes, shades, and combination, gradients numbers so that you get the exact color that is shown to you digitally. File formatting includes the extension of acceptable file format like; .ai Adobe illustrator, .psd for Photoshop, .pdf portable document file for sampling, PNG, and jpg. Add to this, must know either die lines are included in them or not. Moreover, understand the color options, either CMYK, PMS, and two-color printing is required. Furthermore, what sort of printing you have required you, most of the time cone covers printing is done in two ways;
- Digital Printing
- Offset printing
- Is packaging telling about the product? Is it an honest representation of the cone ice cream flavor and taste? What is the 3D view of the cone? How will your cone look like in the hands of the kids and customers? Is packaging reusable and eco-friendly? Is it versatile?
- Get feedback from your existing customers about the new style of cone sleeves. Ask a survey from the customers or experts about the below-mentioned things.
- Feedback about the new style of cone wrappers.
- Its grip, colors, and mouthwatering effect.
Now Let us market our ice cream cones:
Out of two major reasons for packaging, one is the marketing of the ice cream cone brand. In general, it is a source of marketing, but specifically, every single aspect of packaging participate in marketing. Here is how it is beneficial for marketing;
- Waffle cone jackets explain the key benefits of brand
- Fun exhibition of the product
- It tells the story and engages the audiences
- Creative and stylish covers help in getting more sales
- Communicates the brand quality
- Tells the price and promotional offers to the customers directly
- Satisfy the customers
As we know, the packaging is a smart tool for marketing and promotion. This inspires the customers if creative, and it is a part of the marketing mix. Its colors, shapes, and design grab the customers’ attention and convert them into repeat customers. It is a psychological effect, trends are changed, and people are more conscious about the hygienic condition and packaging innovations.
With time now, cone ice-cream manufacturers are aware of the importance of branding and purpose full covers. That’s why they are spending much more on the design options that stand out from them among competitors and yield better ROI for them.
The appearance of cone sleeves and branding:
Attractive and kids’ favorite designs are easy to remember, and kids love them. On the other hand, bad and pathetic designs repel them. All the parents love cone covers that show some creative nature to the kids, and this is why you need the right appearance for cone sleeves. According to research, visual effects communicate with the customers.
Information printed on the cone sleeves actually telling a story to the customer:
Highlighting the key benefits on the cover help the customer in finding what they are searching for. This information could be verbal or visual effects. They tell the customers about such things;
- Flavor
- Ingredients
- Taste
- Color
- Nutrition’s
- Expiry dates
Information that customers are searching for that is important, and it brings more sales to the business.
Innovation and Branding:
A large number of sales are generated just because of innovative styles of cone sleeves. According to a survey, early adopters buy products because they look special and unique to them. Thus, people buy stuff because of innovative covers. That’s why a large number of cone sellers change their covers after some time and bring some more innovation to them.
Brands recognition via cone sleeves:
Ice cream cone covers bring a difference; branded products are recognized in the first impression. Think, how you would differentiate a MacDonald’s or a local ice cream cone seller if the packaging is the same. This difference in packaging makes them branded and recognized easily. You can differentiate your product by using high-quality ice cream cone covers.
- Differentiate them by using unique material of packaging
- Make them customized and personalized and append differentiation
- Print brand name and enhance the appearance
- Use copyrighted colors combination for your brands
- Use branded patterns on the cone covers
What “City Of Packaging” recommends?
“The City Of Packaging” recommends getting branded and creative covers that are affordable and lead your business to the next level. We provide the best quality ice-cream cone sleeves (offered by the City of Packaging). You can start your order today and check our best designs here.
