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3/16" Brown Matte Acrylic Sheet

Color 2418M · 3/16" thick · also known as Frosted Brown

Brown Matte acrylic — Top view
OpaqueMatte / frosted

3/16" Brown Matte opaque acrylic with a matte (frosted) one-side finish, cut to your exact size from 11″ to 48″ per side. Choose a standard size or enter custom dimensions, add flame- or diamond-polished edges, and see the price instantly.

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Edge finish

$5 for the first cut, $3 each additional, totaled across your line.

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3/16" brown matte in practice

Opaque stock blocks light entirely, so at 3/16" the decision is structural and visual rather than optical — you are choosing how solid the piece needs to feel and look.

Here the sheet starts to feel stiff in the hand and spans further without visible bow, while staying easy to cut and drill on ordinary tools.

In a laser: pigment absorbs the beam, so this cuts on a CO2 machine and on a diode, though a diode will need several passes at this thickness.

The matte face hides fingerprints and cuts glare, and it will not polish back to gloss if scratched — keep the masking on until the piece is installed.

3/16" brown matte (colour 2418M) runs $9.08 per square foot at this gauge and weighs about 1.17 lb per square foot, so a 24″ × 48″ piece comes to roughly 9.4 lb — worth knowing before you size a panel someone has to lift or ship.

Why 3/16" brown matte acrylic?

A middle step between 1/8″ and 1/4″. The extra thickness adds noticeably more rigidity while keeping weight down, so it holds its shape better across medium panels — useful for signage, partitions, and light-duty panels that need a bit more backbone than 1/8″.

signagepartitionslight-duty panels

About Brown Matte acrylic

Brown Matte is a solid, warm-brown sheet with a soft matte finish. The muted, wood-adjacent tone suits retail fixtures, restaurant and hospitality signage, and display pieces that want warmth without shine. It's opaque, so it blocks light completely and works as a finished surface on its own.

Made to order. Not every color and thickness is stocked at all times — if yours is temporarily out, we make or source it and ship as soon as it's back in stock. On a deadline? Email us before you order and we'll confirm your expected ship date.