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If you're building a greeking workflow, you'll hear three answers: cover dots, licensed graphics, or print your own. Two of those are techniques; the third is a sourcing decision. We make one of the products in this comparison, so read accordingly — but the framework below is the honest one, and it's the same one we'd give you if you bought nothing. Start with technique, not brand There are two ways a greeked prop can read on camera: Masked — a neutral shape (dot, square, stripe, rectangle) covers the logo. The mark becomes a clean, deliberate absence. Fast, universal, zero...

You've got a hero prop covered in trademarks, a kitchen set full of cereal boxes, and a legal department that wants none of it on camera. Welcome to greeking. This guide covers what it is, why productions do it, the four ways to get it done, and the one mistake that turns a clearance fix into a clearance problem. What "greeking" actually means Greeking is the set-decoration practice of obscuring, altering, or replacing real-world brand names, logos, and trademarks on anything that appears on camera. The name comes from the old typesetting phrase "it's all Greek to me" — designers...