Lid matching
Which lid suits a drink, what the different styles are for, and the one reason a lid match is verified against your container instead of answered from a chart.
It is reasonable to expect a lid chart: a table of cup sizes against lid sizes, and the answer sitting in a cell. Packaging suppliers publish them, and they look authoritative.
The trouble is that a lid does not grip a capacity. It grips a rim. Two cups that both hold 16 oz can have been made on different tooling with different rims, and the same lid will seat properly on one and leak on the other. Nothing about the number of ounces tells you which.
That is why this site does not publish a compatibility table. Not because the information is secret, but because a table built from capacity figures would be wrong for some of the cups it described, and a buyer who trusted it would find out at the worst moment.
Matching lid compatibility is verified against your container before your final quote is confirmed.
Style is a separate question from fit, and it is the one you can settle before ordering. Each of these describes the shape and what it is normally chosen for.
Sits close to the rim with little height above it.
Usually chosen where the drink is handed over quickly and stacked or carried flat, or where a lower profile matters for storage.
Worth confirming
Whether a flat lid suits a drink with a topping depends on how much clearance your product needs.
Rises above the rim to leave room under the top.
Usually chosen where the drink carries something on top, such as whipped cream, a cold foam or fruit.
Worth confirming
How much clearance a dome gives varies by container, so the right height is confirmed against your product.
Carries an opening formed into the lid itself.
Usually chosen for drinks taken away and drunk directly, without a straw.
Worth confirming
The opening suits some drinks better than others, which is worth confirming against what you are serving.
Many customers order cups and lids together rather than matching them afterwards, because the pair is what has to work at the counter. If you are doing that, tell your specialist you want them quoted as a set so the fit is confirmed once rather than twice.
Cups and drinkwareFour things determine whether a lid works for a drink, and all four are answered by your specification rather than by the material or the capacity on its own.
Lids are quoted as part of the product you are ordering. What that means in practice is worth stating plainly.
Lid styles are listed on their own pages: flat lids, dome lids and cup carriers for multi-drink orders. Cup formats that these fit are covered under PET cold cups and hot cups.
The questions buyers ask about lids, answered as far as the verified position allows.
Tell us the container and how the drink is served. We will confirm the lid against your product and include it in your quote, with a free digital mockup before anything is produced.
