An acrylic brochure holder is a small fabrication with one hard job: hold a stack of paper upright at a slight angle so the front cover is readable and the stack does not collapse forward.
A clinic group in Kuala Lumpur ordered 60 three-pocket holders for waiting rooms. Within a month, staff reported that leaflets slid to the bottom of the pockets and the front copy was hidden, so patients took the first sheet and left the rest.
Acrylic brochure holder pocket geometry
- Pocket: 3 mm clear, front lip 12 mm for A5
- Tilt: 15 to 20 degrees from vertical
- Stack depth: 30 mm maximum per pocket
- Frame: 5 mm where the unit is wall mounted
The lip is the whole design. Too shallow and the paper slides; too deep and the front cover is hidden. A 12 mm lip on an A5 pocket, with the pocket tilted 15 degrees, holds a 130 gsm sheet and shows 80 percent of the cover.
Tiers, mounting and refilling
Wall-mounted tiered units need each tier to be a separate pocket with its own lip, not one long slot. A single slot lets the bottom leaflets fan across tiers, and refilling becomes a sorting job.
The mount has to be considered before the holder. A 5 mm frame carrying 40 leaflets per pocket is about 1.5 kg full, and a wall fixing in plasterboard needs an anchor. Hanging a full holder on two picture hooks is how holders end up on the floor.
Print weight matters more than buyers expect. A 250 gsm card stock in a 30 mm stack loads the lip hard enough to bow a 3 mm pocket. Either reduce the stack or increase the pocket thickness.
Where the holder is part of a wayfinding or counter scheme, the layout logic overlaps with acrylic wayfinding signage, and the fabrication options for frequent small parts are in the cut-to-size ordering guide.
Send your leaflet size, pocket count and mounting position to oversales@rpplexiglass.com for a holder quote.
Frequently Asked Questions
What thickness acrylic for a brochure holder?
3 mm for counter units with three pockets, 5 mm for wall-mounted tiered units or where the holder is handled constantly. The pocket wall takes the load of the paper, not the frame.
Why do leaflets slide out of acrylic holders?
Lip too shallow. A 12 mm front lip holds a 130 gsm A5 leaflet; a 5 mm lip does not. The lip depth should be about 10 percent of the leaflet height.
How many leaflets should one pocket hold?
About 30 mm of stack, which is 40 to 50 A5 sheets at 130 gsm. Overfilling is the most common cause of a holder looking messy, and it also loads the front lip.