How to pick a colour pair for your record
A practical guide to choosing two-colour vinyl swirls that look striking on the shelf and still press cleanly, cut after cut.
Sleeve designer & colour lead
Priya Vance
Sleeve designer and colour lead. Names the wax pairs, argues about mustard, and has never once been wrong about a spine.
Priya designs sleeves, labels, and inner bags, and chooses which two colours of PVC go into every record that leaves the plant. She trained as a printmaker, which is why the whole place looks like a risograph studio that took a wrong turn.
She keeps the swatch wall, runs the test-puck batches, and maintains the list of 21 named pairs with the seriousness other people reserve for tax returns.
She writes Colour & Wax and Sleeves & Art, and she is the reason the reject crate has hand-lettered stamps.
At the plant
- Sleeve designer & colour lead
- 14 Ledger Lane, Unit B
- Wed to Sat, 10 to 6
Want Priya to pick your colours or sequence your sides? Say so in the notes when you press a record.
Posts by Priya
Everything Priya
wrote down.
Cover art that survives a 12-inch sleeve
What looks fine on a phone screen often falls apart at 12 inches square. Here is how to design artwork that actually holds up.
The other two
