Custom Tea Boxes
A tea carton is small, holds a stack of identical sachets and has to carry more mandatory copy per square inch than almost anything else on a shelf. The count sets the depth and the copy sets the panel.
Skip the blank page
You already know what you are packaging, so there is nothing to set up. This opens the design engine with the straight tuck end structures on screen — then you type your own dimensions and the dieline is generated at that exact size.
The structures tea boxes actually ship in
Every one of these is a construction TWOFORM generates a real production dieline for, at your own dimensions — not a template you have to fit your product into. Each opens the engine already on that package type.
Settle this before you design
The sachet block sets the internal dimensions exactly
Twenty wrapped sachets stack into a specific block with a real thickness, and paper-wrapped sachets are springier than foil-wrapped ones. Measure the stack under light hand pressure, add a millimetre or two of clearance, and build the carton to that. A carton sized from the sachet's flat dimensions will always be too tight.
The mistake that costs a print run
Leaving the ingredient and infusion copy until the panels are full
Tea carries an ingredient list, an allergen statement, brewing instructions, weight, count and a barcode — on a box roughly the size of a hand. Set all of it as real type at final size on the back and side panels first. If it does not fit legibly, the carton is too small, and that is far less painful to discover before the front panel is designed.
How you actually make it
- Open the structure above and type your real dimensions. The dieline is generated at that exact size and validated against real manufacturing limits as it draws — if a size cannot be folded, glued and shipped, it says so before you design anything on it.
- Describe your brand and the AI designs the artwork directly onto that dieline — not onto a picture of a package.
- Place your own logo, barcode and any required panel yourself. The AI leaves them exactly as placed unless you ask it to change them.
- Fold it in live 3D to check it, then download print-ready files to use with any printer — or have TWOFORM manufacture it.
Questions about custom tea boxes
What size carton holds 20 tea sachets?
Around 4.5 × 3 × 3in for standard wrapped sachets stacked in two rows. Measure your own stack — foil-wrapped sachets pack tighter than paper-wrapped ones by a noticeable margin.
Does the carton keep tea fresh?
Not on its own. Board is permeable to aroma and moisture, so freshness comes from the individual sachet wrap or from a sealed inner bag. The carton protects the shape and carries the information.
Tuck end or seal end for tea?
Tuck end if you are hand-packing or expect people to reclose the box between cups; seal end for a filled line and a tighter aroma seal. Most retail ranges use tuck ends because customers reopen them.