Build Your Own Capsule is designed to help you develop preliminary color preferences for pill capsules, by letting you design a capsule image that approximates the final appearance.
The capsule image and colors produced by Build Your Own Capsule are highly dependent on individual computer screen displays and settings. Please rely only on custom color development trials using real capsule colorants for final color selection.
After using Build Your Own Capsule to identify your initial capsule color preferences, the next important step is a free consultation with the color selection experts at Capsugel. For example, we can confirm whether your preferred colors can be produced using colorants that have regulatory approval in specific countries. Depending on your geographic market focus, the color choices available will vary.
To help guide you through the color selection process you may want to review the following:
Build Your Own Capsule Extras, including topics such as:
In the U.S. and Canada, we also stock a vast inventory of capsules in popular colors and sizes that are ready to ship to you within one business day. See our in-stock colors
The text imprint capabilities of Build Your Own Capsule is limited to a single font. For actual capsules, the available font choices are virtually limitless.
The colors displayed in this software are subject to the settings and performance of the screen it is displayed on.
Due to browser limitations only .jpg, .gif or .png file formats for logos are permissible. JPEG files must be RGB (red, green, blue format), not CMYK (cyan, magenta, yellow, black).
For a CD-based Capsule Color Selector, that includes a global database of regulatory information on colorants used for pharmaceutical products, please contact us to schedule installation and training.