Hang Tag Template: Print Product Tags at Home

A hang tag is the small card tied to a product: a garment, a bag, a candle or a piece of jewelry. It tells the shopper the brand, the product name, the price and the size, and often the material or care. For a shop it is also a sales tool at the counter and a piece of branding that leaves with the customer.

The back is useful too: care tips for the garment, alongside the permanent care label sewn into it, a batch number for a candle or a soap, a line about the maker, or a QR code for a care page. This hang tag template starts from a brand line, a product name, a price, a size and a UPC-A barcode, and every one can be replaced.

The common sizes are 2 x 3.5 in, 2 x 2 in and 1.5 x 3 in, with larger 2.5 x 4 in tags for a coat or a bag on the gift tag template page. The 2 x 3.5 in tag is the usual one because it is about the size of a business card: brand, product name, price, size and barcode all read at a glance without crowding.

A smaller tag suits small goods. The 2 x 2 in square fits a ring, a pair of earrings or a sample bottle, and the 1.5 x 3 in tag leaves room for a long product name on a narrow item. In every case this hang tag template keeps the hole centered, and the text area starts below it.

Common practice is a 1/8 in (3.2 mm) hole for a string or a thin tie, its center about 1/4 in (6.35 mm) below the top edge and centered across the width. That leaves card above the hole for the string to pull against without tearing, and room below it for the brand and the price. A heavier tie needs a larger hole.

Keep the hole clear. It is punched out of the finished tag, so a word or a barcode that reaches it would be cut away or sit on a weak edge. The label maker draws the hole in the cut line and keeps a safe margin around it, and the checks warn when text, a picture or a barcode comes too close.

A price tag template does more than show a number. In a small shop the tag is often the only place the price is written, so it must read from the counter and stay put. Set the price in the largest type, keep the brand and the product name above it, and put the size and the barcode below.

For a run of products the barcode saves time at the till: a UPC-A number on the tag scans like a product barcode, and the label maker adds the check digit and draws the symbol at a retail size. The browser autosave keeps the design for the next run, so a second print needs no editing.

A clothing tag template is usually printed on card stock of about 250 to 350 gsm (roughly 90 to 130 lb cover), heavy enough to hang straight and light enough to cut with scissors or a craft knife. Matte stock takes ink well and feels good; coated stock prints sharper. A test print on plain paper shows the layout first.

For a clothing tag template, print at 100% or Actual size, never Fit to page, or the tag comes out small and the hole drifts on the sheet. Let the ink dry, cut along the outline, and punch the hole with a 1/8 in punch or a craft knife. Cut the clipped corners along the outline with scissors or a cutting machine; a corner rounder makes round corners.

A hang tag dieline is the outline the tag is cut to, with the hole and the corners included. A print shop wants the cut line on its own layer or as a spot color, and the artwork running past it by the bleed. This hang tag dieline PDF does both, with a CutContour line on a separate layer.

For a print shop, download the single tag PDF rather than the sheet PDF: the shop imposes many tags on its own press sheet and cuts them with its own die. Keep the cut line on and the spot color name as it is. The SVG holds the same outline for a cutting machine.

The label maker has a Design with AI button, and the tag page uses it like any other label: describe the look for the brand, pick one to four results, and the AI works in two ways, keeping your layout and restyling it or painting the background art alone. A paper texture or a soft color field works well behind a tag, because the words and the barcode stay on top.

That is the quickest way to a designed tag without a design app. Start from the hang tag template, place the brand, the price and the barcode, then let the AI make the art behind them. The tag stays a working file: change the size, the corners or the hole afterwards.