[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":48},["ShallowReactive",2],{"\u002Fguides\u002Flabel-format-guide":3},{"id":4,"title":5,"blurb":6,"body":7,"category":34,"citation":35,"date":36,"description":37,"extension":38,"featured":39,"icon":40,"meta":41,"navigation":42,"path":43,"readingTime":44,"seo":45,"stem":46,"__hash__":47},"guides\u002Fguides\u002Flabel-format-guide.md","Label format — layout, type size, and placement rules","What's fixed by regulation on the panel versus what you design.",{"type":8,"value":9,"toc":30},"minimark",[10,19,27],[11,12,13,14,18],"p",{},"A food label has two very different kinds of rules: the Nutrition\nFacts panel itself, which is fixed almost down to the point size and\nrule weight by 21 CFR 101.9(d), and everything else on the package,\nwhich is regulated for ",[15,16,17],"em",{},"content"," (what must appear) but not exact\nlayout. Knowing which is which saves a lot of back-and-forth with a\nprinter or a marketplace's label reviewer.",[11,20,21,22,26],{},"The Nutrition Facts panel's type sizes have real floors — the title\n\"Nutrition Facts\" and the calorie count have the largest minimum type\nsize on the panel, with the nutrient rows scaled down from there — and\nits column order, rule placement, and bolding are not a design choice.\nThe ",[23,24,25],"strong",{},"principal display panel"," (the front-of-pack \"face\" a customer\nsees on a shelf), by contrast, has required content — product\nidentity\u002Fstatement of identity and net quantity of contents both need\nto appear there — but real layout freedom in font, color, and imagery\naround that content.",[11,28,29],{},"A full walkthrough — the exact type-size floors by package size, where\nthe Nutrition Facts panel is allowed to go on smaller packages, and\nprincipal-display-panel placement rules — is coming soon to this guide.",{"title":31,"searchDepth":32,"depth":32,"links":33},"",2,[],"Label format","Reviewed against 21 CFR 101.9(d) and 101.1-101.2","2026-07-21","What's actually fixed by regulation on a food label (the Nutrition Facts panel's format) versus what you control (packaging layout, principal display panel).","md",false,"clipboard-list",{},true,"\u002Fguides\u002Flabel-format-guide","3 min read",{"title":5,"description":37},"guides\u002Flabel-format-guide","Hjk0JYoOdyIWshZZCULtBtv1q5NOCeEUm9GSIYYjg3I",1786054274478]