Custom Iced Coffee Cup Sleeve.

You can, but they will not last, and it is the most common mistake we see in this format.

A standard hot sleeve is untreated corrugated board. Its job is to trap air between a hot cup and your hand, and it is good at that. But a cold cup produces continuous condensation, and untreated board absorbs it — the sleeve goes soft, loses its grip on the cup, and eventually pulps. Usually somewhere between the counter and the car.

A cold sleeve is built differently: moisture-resistant board, a sealed liner on the cup-facing side, and print that stays legible when damp. It is doing a different job — grip and moisture management, not insulation.

If you serve both hot and cold drinks, carry both. A single "universal" sleeve is almost always a hot sleeve being used somewhere it fails.

Not for temperature — for grip and mess.

A cold cup pulls moisture out of the surrounding air and holds it on the outside surface. That makes the cup slippery, which is exactly when people grip harder and pop the lid. The condensation also runs down onto hands, into car cupholders and onto tables and desks.

A cold sleeve absorbs that moisture and gives the hand a dry, textured band to hold. It is a small thing that noticeably improves how the drink feels to carry, which is why most speciality iced coffee goes out with one.

There is a marginal thermal benefit — less hand heat reaching the drink — but nobody specifies a cold sleeve for that.