in today's video I have some quickfire tips for the golden rules in business
card design so take some notes and follow along with my golden rules for
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cents and also shared web hosting for under $3 a month the first tip is to
have a theme or a running theme throughout your business card design on
back and the front now this theme probably will come from
the branding or the logo but you need to take into account of the color the
typeface and also the layouts you need to tie in together and resemble the
message and the theme of the brand so for example a business card for a
fashion company we are utilized typical colors and typefaces for that specific
industry and if you take two business cards and lay them out one with the
front up and one with the back up they should complement each other and a good
way to do this is to use contrasting colors so on one side maybe have black
and the other side have whites but yeah you should have a running theme
throughout the entire business card design
next we have text and liquor sighs and this is really important because firstly
you want people to be able to read the information on the business card because
that's the point of the whole thing entirely so do you make sure to test
print and then hold the card at certain distance and check to see if you can
read the text properly and also that goes with the logo design as well
there's no point having a logo on a business card that looks blurry and
after printing so do test print the text size and the logo size on the final
product
and speaking of printing the third golden rule is to make sure your
business card is 300ppi and also set to CMYK color mode for printing this is
pretty obvious to most people but some designers do forget this small detail
and it's really important as well so the fourth golden rule is to have
bleeds on your business card design I typically use a five millimeter bleed
around the entire design and you need to set this up in Illustrator or whatever
you're using the bleeds are there so the printer can cut out your business card
efficiently and cleanly on multiple different printouts so do make sure that
your artwork does go over the bleed but moving on to the fifth point today make
sure you do have margins so you can keep all important content within from the
edge of the design now again I typically bring the margins in five millimeters
from the actual cutout print edge having a load or some text right up to
the cutout edge does look really tacky and untidy and lastly today the sick
golden rule of a business car design is hierarchy use hierarchy especially on
the text so you can have the important titles standing out so for example your
name and say your profession like art director or whatever but ya have
hierarchy on the business card because it does draw attention and also it looks
more professional and it looks more neat
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