Choosing your Mats

Your frame comes with your choice of inner and outer mats. You can use the Mat Colors link on the left menu to see all the color choices available. You can change the background color to any of the mat colors so you can see how your mat choices to together.

My most popular choice of mats is Antique White for the outer mat and Black for the Inner Mat. This combination will go well with just about any magazine or comic and is a good choice if you will be rotating a number of different items in your frame.

Chosing a White. The white used on most magazines is not a pure white and Antique White goes well with the white used on many magazines. If your magazine uses a pure white, then Very White is a good choice.

Chosing a Black. Black (#921) is a smooth black and is my most popular black. If you would like a little texture in your black, then Raven Black is a good choice.

Types of mats

Decorative and Select Mats. Your frame comes standard with Crescent Decorative or Select Matboard. This has a light cream core and is buffered and pH neutral. The Decorative mats are not a conservation product, the Select mats are. Since your collectible is encapsulated in conservation grade Mylar, conservation matboard is not necessary.

If you do want a conservation matboard, choose one of the Select matboards. These have numbers in the C9500 to C9900 range. The specifiers below show all mats available in the Crescent Decorative and Select line.

Decorative Mats

Crescent Select Mats