Business Card & Service Card Maker

How to use

1. Enter your details. Name is the only required field. Add the contact details people will actually use: one phone number or email address is worth more than four lines nobody reads.
2. Pick a size and template. Standard 85 x 55 mm suits most printers outside North America; US 89 x 51 mm matches the 3.5 x 2 inch card. The template changes colours and alignment only — it never moves text outside the safe margin.
3. Check both sides. The front carries who you are and how to reach you. The back carries your business name, tagline and website — the part people see when the card sits face-down on a desk.
4. Download, print at 100%, and measure. Open the PDF, print one card at 100% / Actual Size, and check it with a ruler. “Fit to page” rescales the sheet and breaks the exact millimetre size. If the ruler does not match, do not use that print.

Worked example

Load sample fills a fictional card for Maya Rahman, a freelance graphic designer at the fictional Bright Leaf Studio. The front shows her name at 16 pt, her job title, the studio name, a phone number, an email address, a website and one address line. The back shows the studio name, the tagline “Clear design for small businesses” and the website again, centred under a teal rule. The sample uses the standard 85 x 55 mm size with 3 mm bleed, so the PDF pages measure 91 x 61 mm including bleed, while the trimmed card is exactly 85 x 55 mm. The PNG export of the front is 1004 x 650 pixels at 300 DPI, which is 85 mm and 55 mm at that resolution. Replace every sample line with your own details before downloading: the sample contact details are invented, they belong to nobody, and a card printed with them on it would send your enquiries nowhere.

Limitations

This tool makes type-only cards. It does not accept a logo upload, so it cannot place your existing logo on a card, and it cannot reproduce a brand font you use elsewhere — cards are set in the site's Inter stack with system fallbacks. It does not check that a phone number or email address is real, only that it looks well formed; a typo that still looks valid will print exactly as typed, so read the preview character by character. It does not order printing, choose paper stock, or check a print shop's file requirements: some shops ask for a specific bleed, colour mode or file type, and their specification wins over this page. Colours on screen are not a proof of printed colour — monitors and printers render colour differently, and a dark background card will use noticeably more ink than a light one. The PDF text is selectable vector text in a standard PDF font, which keeps the file small and readable; if a print shop requires embedded brand fonts, export the PNG at 300 DPI instead and ask the shop which file they prefer.

What makes a card work when it leaves your hand

A business card has about three seconds of attention, and most of that goes to two questions: whose card is this, and how do I reach them. That is why the front of this tool puts the name first, at the largest size on the card, and keeps contact lines short and scannable. A card crowded with five phone numbers, three email addresses, a postal address, a list of services and a slogan is a card nobody reads; pick the single best way to reach you and make it unmissable, then add at most one backup. Hierarchy matters more than decoration. If the job title is set larger than the name, the reader remembers a role and forgets the person. If the website is printed in the smallest size on the card, it will not be typed in later. Contrast matters just as much: light grey text on white may look elegant on a bright screen and disappear under office lighting, so this tool keeps body text in dark slate and reserves accent colour for rules and small labels. The back of the card earns its place only when it adds something the front does not. A repeated logo and nothing else wastes half the card. A short line about what you do, a website, or a single memorable detail gives the recipient a reason to keep the card after the meeting ends. Finally, a card is a physical object, not a screen. Paper weight, rounded corners and lamination change how it feels in the hand, and none of those can be previewed here. Print one card first, hand it to someone, and watch what they read first — that test tells you more than any preview on a monitor.

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