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What Is Business Card Generator?

Business Card Generator creates print-ready business card designs with standard dimensions (3.5×2 inches / 88.9×50.8mm). Choose from professional templates, customize layouts with your name, title, company, phone, email, and social links, then export a high-resolution file ready for printing.

How to Use This Tool

Select a template or start with a blank card. Enter your contact information and adjust the layout, fonts, colors, and alignment. Preview both front and back designs, then export as a print-ready PDF or high-resolution PNG with proper bleed margins. Everything is designed and rendered in your browser — no files are uploaded.

Why Use Business Card Generator?

Online print services charge for design tools, and design software has a steep learning curve for a simple card. This tool gives you professional templates with proper print specifications for free, with no account required. Your contact information stays private in your browser. For a detailed walkthrough, see our step-by-step guide.

Common Use Cases

Designing a one-off card for a conference where the print run is twenty cards and shipping a full Illustrator project to a print shop is overkill. Updating an existing card with a new title or phone number quickly, without reopening the designer's source files. Producing different cards for different roles or events — speaker cards, client-facing sales cards, alternative regional phone numbers — from a shared template.

Building a card for a side business or personal brand where the polish bar is "clean and professional" rather than "agency-designed." Creating digital cards for email signatures and social profiles where the card is the image, not a physical product. Prototyping a card design before committing to a print order, so you can see whether the spacing and hierarchy work at actual size.

How We Compare

Vistaprint and Moo combine design templates with their own print fulfillment, which is convenient when you want one vendor for both. The downside is that the design is locked into their workflow, and exporting print-ready files for a third-party printer is often gated behind premium tiers. Canva offers good templates but requires an account and watermarks some outputs.

This generator is print-shop agnostic: design in the browser, export a print-ready PDF with crop marks and bleed at the standard 3.5 x 2 inch trim, and take that file to any vendor (or your home laser printer). No account required. Bleed, margins, and CMYK-friendly color handling are all configurable. For adding a QR code to the back, the generator includes one built-in.

One detail about print prep: business cards typically need a 1/8-inch (3 mm) bleed on every edge so the printer's trim line has tolerance. The generator includes bleed in the PDF export by default. If your printer asks for files without bleed, toggle the "include bleed" option off before export.

Frequently Asked Questions

Is this business card generator really free?+
Yes, 100% free with no signup, no watermarks, and no limits. Everything runs in your browser and your data never leaves your device.
What are the standard business card dimensions?+
Standard US business cards are 3.5 x 2 inches (89 x 51 mm). European cards are slightly narrower at 85 x 55 mm. Japanese Meishi cards are 91 x 55 mm. All these sizes are supported in the generator.
Can I add a QR code to my business card?+
Yes. Enter any URL and the tool generates a QR code that appears on your card. You can choose to place it on the front or back of the card.
Can I design both sides of the card?+
Yes. The editor has front and back tabs so you can design both sides. The back can include your logo, tagline, QR code, or social media handles.
What export formats are available?+
You can download your business card as a high-resolution PNG image or as a print-ready PDF. Both formats render at 300 DPI quality for professional printing.
Can I upload my company logo?+
Yes. Upload any PNG, JPG, or SVG logo file up to 2MB. The logo is processed entirely in your browser and never sent to a server.
What size should I export for professional printing?+
Standard US business cards are 3.5 x 2 inches with a recommended 0.125 inch bleed on every edge, so the export size is 3.75 x 2.25 inches. International standard (most of Europe and Asia) is 85 x 55 millimeters with 3mm bleed. The generator exports at 300 DPI as PDF (the preferred format for professional printing) with crop marks and bleed lines included so the print shop can trim accurately.
Do I need to convert text to outlines before sending to a printer?+
Only if the printer asks for it. Most modern print shops handle font embedding in the PDF correctly so the text renders accurately at their end. Converting to outlines is a defensive measure for cases where the print shop might not have your font, but it makes the text non-editable. The generator embeds fonts in the PDF by default and offers an outlines export as an opt-in for printers that require it.

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