• Write specific prompts with design, color, and fonts to guide the AI designer 
• Double-check the layout for design and content accuracy before downloading the file
• Ask for high-resolution prints made with 350 DPI in CMYK color mode 
• Make sure the layout is for 3.5” x 2” business cards with 0.1″ bleed

Design Business Cards with AI

Designing AI business cards can be an efficient way to create a personalized networking tool. Instead of spending a significant amount of time laboring through the design process, AI platforms take a simple written prompt and turn it into art. Even people who are not necessarily design professionals can use AI to creatively customize their professional business networking tools.  

Still, using AI tools to create business cards requires a bit of practice. An AI tool is only as good as the instructions it receives. That’s why crafting strong prompts can help speed up the process and produce results that match your vision. But you need to provide guidance beyond your artistic direction. You must inform the AI platform about business card dimensions, file resolution, color mode, and all the small details that create print-worthy designs. Doing this ensures the files you upload when you print business cards with GotPrint will look clear and detailed.  

With that in mind, here’s how you can use AI to make unique business cards that fit your professional branding.  

Choose an AI Business Card Generator 

There are many different AI platforms you can use to create business cards. Your best options are the built-in AI tools. Canva and Adobe both have AI design tools that allow you to easily customize the design it produces. Simply generate a design, then use more hands-on design tools to manipulate graphics, edit text, and further personalize your layout. These are the best options for an AI-generated design that you can customize with ease. 

Most people will use ChatGPT or Gemini to generate unique designs. These options are best for people who want to leave the entire design process up to AI. Submit your prompt and let the platform create a layout for you. If you need an AI business card generator free to access, these are the most popular options. Kodo is another platform you can use to customize business cards. There are also paid options, such as Midjourney. You can upgrade your ChatGPT or Gemini account to a paid tier and access more extensive design options.  

How to Use AI to Design a Business Card 

Step 1: Write a Direct Prompt 

When you write prompts for AI, you need to be clear and specific. The phrase “business card for an accountant,” for example, is far too simple. The end result will be generic, and the layout will lack dimension and flair. Writing good prompts for AI business cards requires a plain, straightforward vision. You need to know what artistic style you’re envisioning for your business cards. Expecting AI to entirely do that work for you will result in boring layouts that don’t leave a lasting impression.  

Having specific details in your initial prompt will reduce some of the back and forth. Include a general aesthetic (minimalist, high-end luxury, vintage, etc.), font style (script, sans serif, or serif), any design elements (floral, polka dot, geometric, etc.), and color palettes. Include all the important information, like your name, job title, company, email, phone number, website, and social media accounts. If you need business card inspiration, browse GotPrint’s free templates for various design styles.  

For example, a wedding planner can use this prompt for a business card:   

Romantic minimalist business card with a pink and white color palette, script fonts, and a thin-line fleur-de-lis pattern. 3.5” x 2” business card layout in CMYK mode, 350 DPI, and high-resolution print files.  

Text on the Font:  

Sophie Martin  

Wedding Planner 

Text on the Back: 

Handling the Logistics of Love 

sophie@weddings.com  

sophiemartin.com 

123-456-7891 

You can also share exactly what you want for the design layout. Here’s an example of what directions you might want to include: 

Front of the business card: Name in 10 pt. Serif font in the middle of the card; job title underneath name in 8 pt font; company logo in upper right corner 

Back of the business card: Company slogan in the middle of the card in a 10 pt. Serif font; email, phone number, and website underneath the slogan in 8 pt font.  

Step 2: Provide Feedback 

AI tools are notorious for making mistakes and producing inaccurate results. That’s why your feedback and guidance are crucial to producing prints that can professionally represent your personal brand. Ask to add, remove, or move design elements. If you want a leaf design, for example, you can ask it to change the type of leaf, the art style, or the location on the business card.  

Often, AI will generate designs with the same font for all the text. You can ask for a different font for your name, job title, or any other information included in the design. Change the text size and colors to best fit your vision. Remember, text sizes on business cards should vary to create a dynamic design, and they need to be between 8 pt. and 16 pt.  

For any artwork included in the design, make sure it looks correct. AI-generated artwork will often have odd inconsistencies that do not look correct, like multiple hands or lines that don’t connect in logical ways. Request the designer to polish up any design that doesn’t look quite right. 

If you aren’t in love with the first design it creates, don’t be afraid to ask it to start fresh. At that point, return to your original prompt and tweak your request to guide the AI in the right direction. This could include sharing specific fonts or even uploading design inspiration. 

Step 3: Prepare Print-Ready Files 

A frequent issue customers face is that the files they download from different AI platforms are not automatically ready for printing. This can result in blurry business card prints or rejected file uploads.  

When you just ask for a design, it might not create a file that would work for ordering prints. Typically, the AI platforms will first generate one image that shows both sides of the business card. Provide feedback on those designs before asking for a design file.  

Once you’ve settled on a design, you need to request individual files for each side of the business card. Ask for true print-ready files at 3.5” x 2” with 0.1″ bleed, 350 DPI, and CMYK color mode. Make sure to request separate design files for the front layout and the back layout.  

This is where ChatGPT and Gemini tend to make significant errors. Sometimes, it will not provide this the first time you ask. Often, the design will be different from what was first provided. This is because it will often turn the initial design it provided into vector artwork, which are drastically simplified versions of the design.  

If this step is tripping you up, there are two options. One: Continue providing feedback on the vector files but know that these designs will often lack depth and dimension. They will typically be a less detailed version of the original design it shared. Two: Ask for a JPG file instead of a PDF. This will typically prevent the AI generator from using vector designs.  

Step 4: Download Files 

When your print files are ready, download each side of your business card as individual files. At this point, you can manually edit the files to include a QR code. Upload your business card files to GotPrint.com when you’re ready. If you want to know how to print from ChatGPT, it’s quite easy. Just ask for a PDF of JPG file, download what it provides, double check the design, then share it with GotPrint.com  

Step 5: Order Business Cards 

Crafting your design is only one part of the process. You need to find the best paper stock for your business cards (hint: most people go with 14 pt. Gloss, but you can choose a high-end 16 pt. Premium Matte or an ultra-thick 38 pt. Trifecta). If you want to feel confident in your decision, order a Free Sample Kit from GotPrint and test all our paper materials. You also need to know how many business cards to order. Depending on the paper stock you select, you can order as few as 25 or as many as 100,000 business cards. Use our guide to determine how many cards you’ll need for any given industry or event.  

Why Choose AI Business Cards 

AI does offer advantages to the design process. It’s fast and, if you’re using a free platform, cost-efficient. It also removes any extended feedback between you and a design team.  

• Unique Design: This design process doesn’t rely on pre-made templates that other people might have. Asking an AI generator to tweak the layout results in a one-of-a-kind business card. 
• Speed: Receive a business card design in seconds and communicate edits immediately. You can make a business card in a fraction of the time it would take to go through a traditional designer.  

The Dos and Don’ts for Making AI-Generated Business Cards 

Do: Use Specific Prompts 

• Share precise language for design styles and layout guidelines. Add design styles, exact text, and color palettes.  

Don’t: Be Afraid to Make Edits 

• Don’t just accept the first design it gives you. Ask to add or remove design elements, personalize text, change font, or improve colors.

Do: Ask for Multiple Design Layouts 

• Browse different options to find the perfect business card layout. 

Don’t: Use an AI-Generated QR Code 

• Most of the QR codes generated by AI won’t lead to the correct link. Make your own QR code and add it to the layout later.  

Do: Double-Check the Details  

• Make sure everything is spelled correctly, the phone number and email address are accurate, and your design doesn’t have any glaring mistakes.

Don’t: Forget to Check the File Requirements

• Each printing company has different rules for the files you upload. Make sure the AI-generated file has the right dimensions, bleed, DPI, and color mode.

At GotPrint, we understand the ease that AI offers when creating business cards. However, we cannot guarantee that these designs will always be compatible with our design tools. If you want to design business cards with 100% confidence, we recommend using our pre-made, free business card templates. These layouts are fully customizable, allowing you to change the text, fonts, colors, and design elements. We offer a wide variety of templates for multiple creative and professional industries. Personalizing business cards made by professional designers ensures the files were made with the correct resolution, bleed, color mode, and dimensions. Browse our professional, free business card designs to get started.

• An insert card has a high ROI, since it is an affordable print that can easily impress customers.
• Popular types of insert cards include postcards, brochures, and bookmarks.
• Ideas for packaging cards include coupon cards, thank you cards, product catalogs, brand stories, and care instructions.

Custom packaging inserts instantly improve the unboxing experience. A custom postcard, bookmark, or brochure invites customers to keep engaging with your brand. That’s why they are essential print marketing materials that extend the conversation past the current purchase. Marketing inserts are a simple yet effective way to show appreciation to shoppers, share information about your company, and advertise more products.

Why Packaging Inserts Work

Custom inserts for packaging solidify your branding, connect with customers, and have a great ROI. Why are these small marketing prints so powerful? Because they reveal care and attention to detail for every aspect of your brand. Anyone who opens a package will instantly know that your brand is not like the rest. 

An intentional design approach is key to making these brand prints effective. It shouldn’t just be full of empty words and uninspired art. Get creative with your approach. One side might feature a beautiful art design (with your company logo in the corner) that someone might want to display. Another approach is to share useful information that is relevant to your brand. If you sell ingredients or food products, you can print a recipe card. If you sell clothes, you can share styling or fashion inspo. This design method makes it more likely that someone will hang onto your card.

The Benefits of Creative Packaging Inserts:

• Establish your Business Branding: An insert card is another place to display your logo, slogan, or other relevant branded artwork. This establishes a connection between this style and your brand. 
• Connect with Customers: Something as simple as a heartfelt thank you note makes your business seem personable and relatable – which encourages customers to support your brand instead of large, detached companies. 
• Excellent ROI: GotPrint’s marketing postcard printing is affordable, which means that the investment is minimal compared to the impact.

Popular Types of Postcard Packaging Inserts

• Thank You Retail Cards: Show your appreciation for every purchase by including thank you cards for customers inside each package. 
• Coupons and Discounts: Encourage customers to return by offering an incentive for their next purchase. Print a coupon code or promote upcoming sales. 
• Brand Mission Statement: Use brochures or flyers to share information about your company. This can be your origin story, brand values, or brand identity.
• Care Instructions: Inform customers how to get the most out of your products – fabric washing instructions, candle burning instructions, skin care product application, craft kit directions, etc. 
• Product Catalogs: Showcase popular products, any upcoming product launches, and ways customers can combine your different items. For more space, use a custom product brochure or print multi-page catalogs. 
• Freebies: Use postcards for mini art prints customers can hang on to. Custom branded stickers are also fun giveaway items that people can stick on their water bottle or laptop.

How Packaging Inserts Improve Customer Loyalty

Every element of your packaging, from the product itself to the additional prints to the stickers that seal the box, should all work together to establish your brand identity and make a lasting impression for customers. It would be a mistake not to invest in these branding prints.

A thank you card is the simplest way to foster relationships with customers. Not every company does so – to their own detriment. After all, your company depends on people buying your products. A simple note of gratitude can go a long way in making those customers feel appreciated. Small companies, like Etsy shops or craft businesses, can even add a handwritten note. This is especially helpful for those with brands dedicated to handmade products. 

Another way postcards can improve customer loyalty is by including an incentive for their next purchase, such as a discount code or exclusive access to new products. Whether you’re selling skincare products that need to be replenished regularly or a durable chair that can last a long time, a coupon might encourage them to make their next purchase sooner rather than later.

Mail Inserts that Add Personality to Your Brand

Another way to foster customer loyalty is by building a brand narrative. People like to support companies that have unique characteristics. This could be creating affordable products in a luxury market. Or offering eco-friendly materials. Or brand values and intentions. If your company has a cool, quirky, or admirable origin story, this is the place to share it.

The story shouldn’t be novel-length. Just pick the bits that really set you apart and make people remember your brand. After all, more customers these days are interested in shopping from brands that share their ethos. This is the perfect opportunity to showcase that alignment. 

Product Insert Cards

If you’re sending out a package, mailer, or envelope, then you’ve already jumped the first hurdle of convincing someone to make a purchase. The next obstacle is getting them to order again, and again, and again.

We’ve covered coupons as one way to encourage further sales. But what if they don’t know what to buy next? Create a custom package insert that advertises more products. It can also share other products related to their purchase: another crafting kit, accessories, a full skincare set, etc. It’s an excellent way to get a new sale from someone who is already engaged in your brand.

This is also an opportunity to promote new or upcoming product launches. It keeps people up to date on your latest releases. Hopefully, they’ll want to place another order immediately.

What to Print Your Marketing Design On

Many different marketing materials can be inserted inside an envelope, mailer, or package box. You want to choose the right print product for your design goals. Thank you cards, for example, can be smaller than an extensive product catalog. 

You should probably select a thinner paper stock, like 14 pt. Gloss or 16 pt. Premium Matte, so it doesn’t add too much weight to the package. Double sided printing lets you create an elaborate, engaging design.

Popular Packaging Insert Materials:

• Postcards: The most popular packaging insert, postcards come in many different shapes and sizes, so they can easily be slipped inside any kind of mail. 
• Bookmarks: As a practical marketing print, bookmarks are great for short promotional messages or cute branded designs. These are especially popular for independent bookstores, author merchandise, and reading accessories. 
• Stickers: When you slip a few stickers inside each package, customers can turn their water bottles and tablets into their own promotional tools. Stickers with logo designs or graphic designs are popular for bakeries, Etsy shops, and Depop resellers. 
• Flyers: When you have a lot of info to share, a custom printed flyer is a great option. Share lengthy mission statements, big announcements, and detailed product promotions. 
• Brochures: When you want to share detailed brand info, product descriptions, or instructions, a brochure is the way to go. Choose between different brochure fold styles and sizes depending on how much info you want to share. 
• Catalogs: Get more detailed with a custom product catalog. GotPrint offers catalogs with as few as four inside pages, resulting in a thin, lightweight booklet you can easily include in a package.

Print Package Insert Cards with GotPrint

GotPrint offers customizable marketing prints at an affordable price. This makes it easy to invest in high-quality packaging inserts that will surely impress your customers. 

• Stationery supplies are crucial to communicating with customers, marketing your business, and organizing your office. 
• Custom stationery items like envelopes, letterhead, and postcards all help your brand have consistent, cohesive mail marketing.
• Personalized office supplies like notepads and calendars help all your employees get organized. 
• Use consistent color palettes, font styles, and logo designs to give your business stationery design a cohesive appearance.
• Stationery suppliers aren’t all equal. That’s why you should trust GotPrint for all your custom stationery printing.

Branded stationery adds legitimacy and professionalism to your company. High-quality stationery supplies, like letterhead, envelopes, and business cards, will improve the appearance and feel of your marketing materials.

It might be the right time to reassess your current supplies and consider a refresh. As your brand identity evolves, it’s important that even small products like business cards are upgraded to match your new appearance. Your business stationery should not be treated as a frivolous afterthought but rather an important marketing investment that sets your company apart from its competitors. It fully solidifies your brand identity through consistent design styles, color schemes, and font choices. A professional stationery package will make a positive impression on your clients, who will then be more likely to keep your materials close at hand. 

GotPrint put together a “back-to-business” checklist to help you assess whether your office is fully stocked with all the stationery essentials you need to communicate effectively, showcase your company’s personality, and grow your business network. These marketing materials for small business branding will instantly improve your branding.

Custom Business Cards

Business cards are just as popular as ever – nothing quite replaces having a visual and tangible reminder of the new contact you just made. However, if you’ve been carrying around the same design for years, it’s time for an update.

Ask yourself if any of the following apply to your current business cards:

• Is any information (title, address, email, phone number) out-of-date?
• Has your company’s logo or tagline changed since you printed the card?
• Do your cards lack color, texture, or style?
• Is your card one-sided, forcing you to leave off crucial information due to lack of space?
• Is the business card size serving the design?

These details are key to creating high quality business cards. And it’s important for your personalized business card to look professional. After all, it represents not just you, but your company as well. Distributing business cards to customers, clients, and potential colleagues is a crucial networking move that has to make an impact.

Business cards are also important office stationery. Leave them at your desk to hand to someone at the end of a meeting. If you want to be easily accessible, you can set up a business card display in the lobby for anyone to grab. You want to have your coworkers business cards on stand, just in case you need to refer clients their way. 

Business cards are also the perfect size for appointment cards, especially for spas and hair salons. You can also use them as loyalty cards. Regulars at a coffee shop, nail salon, smoothie shop, or any other type of restaurant can get their card stamped with each visit–and receive an incentive, like a free drink or discount, once they’ve completely filled out the card. The classic 3.5” x 2” business card size can conveniently slip inside customers’ wallets. Check out GotPrint’s loyalty card templates as a fun but practical piece of marketing stationery.

Where to Make Business Cards:

GotPrint’s known for its premium business card printing. You can order business cards with your company branding that are fully customized. Change the layout, orientation, paper thickness, shape, and size. GotPrint also has plenty of business card templates for multiple professional industries, including real estate business cards, finance business cards, and more. Find the right business card design for your personal networking tools.

Custom Letterhead

You may think it’s more convenient to purchase an overpriced – and generic – stack of letterhead paper at your local office supply store. However, that will often result in official letterhead that is inconsistent with your branding and lacks credibility. If you want high-end, professional letterhead, then you should invest in GotPrint’s custom letterhead printing services. 

With personalized letterhead, you will be able to incorporate your brand’s logo and design elements, plus have full control over the letterhead format and paper quality. Using high-quality office letterhead for all your internal and external communication is key to maintaining a polished and professional image. Get started with GotPrint’s free letterhead templates.

Popular types of letterhead:

• Law Office Letterhead: Establish credibility for your legal practice with a custom letterhead design. This is essential stationery for professional correspondence.
• Medical Office Letterhead: Mail invoice requests, appointment reminders, and any other updates to your patient list. 
• Dental Office Letterhead: Send patient referrals, billing reminders, and appointment reminders on your own branded mail.  
• Non-Profit Letterhead: Send grant requests, thank you notes to donors, and business updates to your team with custom letterhead.  
• Corporate Letterhead: Send mail to employees as well as important clients to ensure all your important information reaches everyone it needs to.

Custom Envelopes

When someone receives mail from your brand, they should instantly be able to identify who sent it. Although custom printed envelopes may seem like an unnecessarily lavish expense, the right envelope can increase revenue by encouraging more recipients to take a closer look at your mailing. Custom envelopes with logo designs printed on the surface strengthen your branding.  

You can make your custom business envelopes even more enticing by teasing about a special offer, including a free gift (such as product samples or custom stickers), or using a non-standard size, such as A7 envelopes typically used for invitations. Many companies design custom window envelopes, which have a plastic section that reveals the address printed on the letterhead inside. Check out all of GotPrint’s business envelope size options. 

Finally, keep in mind that envelopes aren’t just used for mailing. If you’re a retailer, make sure you have beautiful logo envelopes to accompany your gift certificates. If you’re in finance, real estate, or any other industry where you are entrusted with confidential information, make sure you hand over any paper documents in company-branded business envelopes for easy transfer and storage.

Wondering where to buy envelopes? GotPrint’s envelope printing services provide many different ways to personalize mailing envelopes. Logo envelopes are the simplest, most affordable option; print your logo and company name on the front of these envelopes. For a more elaborate design, custom envelopes allow you to print your full color design inside and outside the envelope, including on the flap. Prepare for all your mailing needs by ordering bulk envelopes.

Custom Notepads

Custom notepads are among our favorite promotional gifts. Not only are they inexpensive, but they also present a unique opportunity for companies to be creative and have fun with their branding. Hand them out to potential and existing customers so that each time they jot down a note or make a grocery list, they will be reminded of your company. Notepads with logo designs printed anywhere on the surface are a practical gift that gets the word out about your brand. After all, branded notepads are an ideal, affordable product for continued brand exposure.

Branded office notepads are also useful stationery for your employees to have on hand at work. Designing company branded notepads ensures everyone is prepared to take notes. Deck out a conference room, lobby, or reception area with office notepads. These are also good welcome gifts for new employees. 

Make your personalized memo pad even more memorable by tying the design into your business. For example, if you’re a wedding planner, call your notepad a “pre-wedding bucket list.” If you’re an electrician, include a light bulb graphic on top. Browse GotPrint’s free notepad templates to find a style that best fits your industry. Learn more about how you can use notepads to expand your business.

Custom Calendars

Custom printed calendars ensure the whole office knows about important dates: paid holidays, annual meetings, repeating deadlines, employee appreciation day, workplace retreats, etc. A custom calendar is a practical and beautiful print that you’ll want to hang in every room, pass out to neighboring businesses, and gift to your very best customers. A branded calendar integrates your branding into people’s daily lives. For the office, you can create a calendar with relevant imagery for employees to hang in their offices. 

Here are some creative promotional calendar ideas we love:

• Travel Agents: Feature full-page color photos of your most popular destinations along with your company name and phone number subtly printed along the bottom. The idea of a luxurious getaway will look more and more appealing with every glance.
• Real Estate Agents: Include helpful tips for homeowners, such as reminders to shut off their water before leaving on vacation or to have their chimneys professionally inspected at least once a year.
• Nutritionists: Your clients will appreciate simple and healthy recipes that correspond to the fruits and vegetables in season that month.
• Restaurant Owners: Highlight a “dish of the month” with a mouthwatering photo and include a “VIP” discount code for calendar owners.

Not all calendars have to be made with paper. Calendar magnets are popular, inexpensive giveaway items. Create a magnetic calendar design with the whole year laid out and gift it to your customers, clients, and employees. Decorate the break room fridge with a branded business calendar magnet. Plus: GotPrint’s magnets have an order minimum of 25, which is much lower than the order minimum for calendars. 

Here are some popular uses for calendar magnets:

• Business Card Calendar Magnets: Add your contact info to a custom calendar so clients can easily contact you. You can even include a QR code that leads to your website or appointment platform. 
• Real Estate Calendar Magnets: Use realtor calendar magnets to promote your brokerage. Share your professional headshot, website, email, and phone number.
• School Calendar Magnets: School administration can distribute magnets to families so they can keep track of important dates, like holiday breaks and testing weeks. 
• Promotional Calendar Magnets: Gyms, personal trainers, retail companies, restaurants, academic institutions, and any other business can easily add their branded images, logos, or any other design to a magnet.

Postcards

Custom business postcards allow you to target specific audiences, whether it’s previous customers or people in a particular zip code. It’s a great marketing tool to share new products, services, listings, coupons, or deals. You can use this to re-target previous customers with an incentive to make another purchase. If you’re opening a new store, restaurant, or office, sending business postcards engages with the local community. 

Postcards for business marketing don’t have to be mailed individually. Print custom thank you cards to slip inside packages, boxes, and mailers alongside whatever your customers have purchased. This adds a personalized touch to their order and helps foster a long-lasting connection with your customer. 

Postcards are an effective marketing tool simply because they are an affordable way to directly target different demographics and geographic areas. With U.S. Postal Service’s EDDM service, you can even narrow down your target audience by neighborhood, age, income, or household size. GotPrint’s EDDM services simplify the process of designing marketing postcards and launching a mail marketing campaign. Postcards work for almost any budget, especially because they can be sent without envelopes. 

Your business postcard design can be customized to fit the different postcard shapes and sizes available. GotPrint offers many different postcard dimensions. From classic 4×6 postcards to large 6×11 postcards to unique square postcards, you can find a layout that best matches your creative vision. 

As with all other business stationery, you want your postcards to look appealing and on-brand. If you sell ice cream, for example, you may prefer bright colors printed on gloss coated cover stock to give your photos a little extra shine. On the other hand, if you sell organic cotton scarves, you may prefer to use more muted colors and recycled cover stock for a softer appearance. Use GotPrint’s guide to find the right paper stock for your marketing prints. 

Incorporate similar designs, artwork, and color schemes throughout all your customized business stationery. This creates a consistent visual style for your brand – one you can match to your social posts and storefront signage. By maintaining a consistent look and feel throughout your marketing materials, you’ll greatly increase the chances of establishing a brand people will come back to time and time again.

Popular Uses for Business Postcards

• Appointment Reminders 
• Real Estate Listings
• New Restaurant Menu Items
• New Retail Products
• Grand Opening Parties
• Coupons or In-Store Sales
• Lobby Handouts

Get All Your Business Essentials from One Stationery Supplier

GotPrint is the best supplier for all your business stationery. From marketing materials to office supplies, our simple online designer allows you to easily make custom designs by uploading a design file or customizing online. We have an extensive catalogue of stationery products at affordable prices–but we never sacrifice quality. Your designs will print clearly, with vibrant colors and clean lines. UV ink pairs well with durable paper stocks that ensure the design lasts a long time. 

With GotPrint as your go-to stationery supplier, you can easily add your logo, slogan, or branded business artwork onto any number of business stationery products.

From personalized bridesmaid proposal cards to custom bridesmaid shirts, use GotPrint’s guide to curate the best bridesmaids proposal box for your friends.

What to Put in Bridesmaid Proposal Boxes

Your bridesmaid boxes can be as elaborate or as simple as you want. Ideally, it is full of useful products that won’t get tossed out. The contents of the personalized gift boxes should both match your wedding theme and be something your bridesmaids want to use. 

Here are GotPrint’s bridesmaids boxes ideas for cute, budget friendly unique personalized bridesmaid gifts.

Proposal Card:

The most important part of a bridesmaid box is the bridesmaid proposal letter where you ask someone to join your bridal party. This can be as simple as a “Will You Be My Bridesmaid?” notecard or a cute greeting card with a note written inside. You could also write a long, handwritten letter that details why you want them to join your group.  

You can order custom wedding stationery, including bridesmaid proposal cards, from GotPrint. Select one of our elegant paper stocks, like 18 pt. Ultra Premium Pearl or 13 pt. Premium Linen, for a luxury, delicate postcard. Read our guide to wedding stationery paper to find the best material for your prints.

Matching Bridal Party Apparel:

Cute personalized apparel is a fun way to connect the group. Personalized t shirts, sweatshirts, and hats let your bride gang show up to the bachelorette trip or any other bridal party looking great. Whether you’re relaxing at a spa, chilling at a brewery, or lying on the beach, everyone will know that your group has something to celebrate.  

These apparel items can be themed to the wedding. Most will just say Bridesmaid, but you can also make funny designs that say “tipsy bridesmaid” or “bride’s bestie.” GotPrint already has some cute bridal t shirt designs you can order. Some people want to personalize apparel for their friends and family that have a general matching design theme that aren’t super bridal. You can monogram initials, embroider full names, or print cute artwork on cozy custom clothes. 

Matching apparel also looks great in your wedding day photos. If you have a photographer joining the prep period, then cute clothes instantly ties the whole image together. Your bridal party will look coordinated in matching funny shirts or delicate embroidered crewnecks.  

Ordering custom apparel from GotPrint is an affordable way to give personalized gifts to your friends and family. We offer a wide variety of colors for shirts, sweatshirts, crewnecks, and hats, so you can find a color palette that matches your wedding theme. GotPrint has no order minimum for apparel customization. This allows you to upload individual designs for different apparel products within one order, and you can give everyone a truly personalized gift.

Here are different kinds of matching bridesmaids clothes:

• Bachelorette Party Shirts: Hype everyone up for your pre-wedding pirates with bridal party shirts. Get yourself a bride shirt, then create cute or funny bachelorette party shirts for your group. GotPrint’s t-shirt printing uses cozy fabrics and high-quality ink for long-lasting designs. 
• Bridesmaid Sweatshirts: Print or embroider a design on a custom bridesmaid sweatshirt that matches your own bride sweatshirt. It can just say “bridesmaid,” “bride squad,” or it can have each person’s name integrated into the design. Design a unique maid of honor sweatshirt to give her role extra importance. 
• Bridesmaid Crewnecks: A cute embroidered bridesmaid crewneck is a cozy apparel gift for your girl crew to wear on the bachelorette trip. A cute monogrammed crewneck sweatshirt is a gift that everyone can wear long after your wedding festivities have ended.
• Bridesmaid Hats: Design custom embroidered hats for the group to wear while out and about on your bachelorette trip. Embroider a white bride hat with matching bride squad hats, or any other funny hat design.

Personalized Bridesmaid Gifts:

Small but meaningful – and practical – gifts can fill out the rest of your box. While you might be tempted to buy some pre-packaged goodies and call it a day, there are many ways you can fully personalize everything in your bridesmaids gift boxes. You can print custom labels to stick on any product or gift bag you create. Not only does this cover up any logos, but it gives everything in your gift box a consistent aesthetic. 

More Bridal Box Gifts:

• Bridesmaid Mugs: Order a set of matching custom mugs for the whole group. Print their name with an artistic design, or create a simple bridesmaid mug design. Pair them with everyone’s favorite tea, coffee, or hot chocolate. 
• Wine/Champagne: Design a custom wine bottle label branded for your wedding theme. You can also continue to use these labels on bottles used at other wedding events. Browse GotPrint’s wedding wine label templates to get started. 
• Candles: Create custom candle labels to stick onto gifts for your friends. Whether you’re making your own candles or buying them from a store, using your own label design makes the gift feel personal instead of generic.
• Candy/Snack Bags: Give everyone a small bag full of fun snacks and goodies. Decorate the bag with a cute sticker that makes it look much more elegant. Your sticker design can say “Bridesmaid Fuel” or something related to your wedding theme. 
• Self-Care Kit: Being in a wedding party is a lot of work. Gather a bunch of skincare and wellness products – like face masks, tea bags, lotion, and under-eye patches – so everyone feels rejuvenated throughout the wedding planning process. Print labels that say Bridesmaid Survival Kit to add a bit of humor to your gift box.
• Makeup Kit: Gather some fun products for everyone to wear at your various bridal festivities. Small items, like lipstick, mascara, blush, and setting spray, are easy to gather in a small makeup bag decorated with a custom sticker.

How Do You Deliver a Bridesmaid Box?

In Person: The most memorable bridesmaid box unboxing happens in person. Gather everyone together or stop by each person’s home with your special delivery to instantly see their reaction – and capture some great social content. 

Mail: If your favorite people are all spread out, then shipping bridesmaid boxes is the most efficient method. Just make sure any delicate or fragile elements, like glasses or candles, are securely wrapped.

Bridesmaid Proposal Ideas:

Half the fun of gathering gifts for a bridesmaid box is anticipating people’s reactions. Here are different ways you can deliver your special gifts

• Bridesmaid Proposal Party: Set the tone for your wedding festivities with an intimate party for your bridal party. It can be a throwback theme with a sleepover, a formal cocktail party, or a chill wine and cheese night. 
• Bridesmaid Brunch: Plan a girls brunch party with each person’s bridesmaids gift boxes at their table setting. 
• Personal Delivery: Each member of your party is an important part of your life. Taking the time to individually deliver each box to the recipient makes the moment more heartfelt – and removes any pressure to say yes. 
• Group Video Call: If you’re mailing boxes, it can be tricky to garner the same enthusiasm as an in-person gathering. You can ask everyone to hold onto their package until a certain point, then have everyone hop on a video call and open it up together. 
• Individual Calls: If a group call feels too chaotic, you can ask people to call you when they’re ready to open their box. This creates an intimate moment, and it gives you an opportunity for everyone to respond in a low-pressure environment.

When Should You Ask Your Bridesmaids to be in Your Wedding Party?

Ask your friends and family to be your bridesmaids at least 8 months before the wedding day. Most wedding planners suggest making the request as early as 11 months before. 

That might sound early, but being a bridesmaid – let alone the maid of honor – is a big commitment. It involves planning and attending several events, like the bridal shower, bachelorette party, rehearsal dinner, and the wedding itself. Asking as early as possible ensures everyone has that day marked off on their calendar without any conflicting events. 

Most people will ask their maid of honor before anyone else, since it’s a role with added importance. Make distinct maid of honor proposal boxes with designs specifically for this special honor. 

It’s also important for planning other elements of your wedding. You need to order bridesmaids’ dresses several months before the wedding, and plan any required tailoring and alterations. How large your bridal party is will also influence the bouquets you order, bridal party seating arrangements, and spots at the bachelorette party. 

Prepping in advance with all your bridesmaid gifts, group bridesmaids outfits, and bridesmaid proposal postcards ensures the wedding planning process happens smoothly.

Many small businesses can benefit from well-made packaging accessories. Whether you sell your products on platforms like Etsy or Shopify, on social media sites like Instagram and TikTok, or in person at craft fairs and conventions, an eye-catching package will delight your customers. Whether you’re mailing products to customers or PR boxes to influencers, an intentionally branded box design will look great in their unboxing videos.

How to Make Stickers for Packaging

Choose a Label Material

Since you want your labels to still look sharp after being sent through the mail, you need to choose a strong, durable material. GotPrint suggests printing packaging labels on White Vinyl Labels. This label paper stock has a 7 pt. thickness and a strong, permanent adhesive backing. Read GotPrint’s guide to sticker and label materials to find the best surface for your design.

Choose a Label Shape 

The label shape you choose will likely depend on your design. Rounded rectangle is the most popular package label shape, since it is perfectly shaped for sealing boxes. Rounded square labels are popular for similar reasons. An arched label can also seal a box with an elegant finish, thanks to the curved edge. But sometimes you want your shape to stand out. This is where a round circle label can be useful; the shape automatically contrasts with the sharp angles of a box. You can also print heart shaped labels or starburst shaped labels for fun, unique stickers. 

Choose a Label Size

Each label shape is available in different sizes. For large labels, GotPrint offers 6” x 6.5” rounded rectangle labels, 5” x 5” square labels, and 5” circle labels. For small labels, GotPrint offers 0.75” circle labels, 0.5” x 1” rounded rectangle labels, and 0.75” x 1.5” oval labels. Browse all of GotPrint’s label shapes and sizes.

Make a Sticker Label Design 

The design is the most important part of the sticker. It can be directly related to your brand, like a logo, slogan, or official artwork. You can also print stickers that tell mail carriers to handle the package carefully. Otherwise, you can just print cute stickers that make the box look more polished. A cute phrase, fun design, decorative pattern, or creative graphics can elevate your packaging. 

Bulk Label Printing 

GotPrint offers roll label printing in quantities ranging from 100 to 50,000. Both large and small businesses can order labels with GotPrint to prepare for all of their shipped orders.

Elevate Shipping Boxes with Custom Logo Stickers for Packaging

Obviously, any mailed packages require a shipping label. It’s a necessary accessory for the mailing process. GotPrint offers pre-made mailing label templates, which you can customize with your address to make branded return address labels. This gives your company its own defining style for even the most basic packaging element. 

But your retail box accessories shouldn’t stop there. 

Designing custom stickers for packaging is a cheaper alternative to fully printing custom boxes. While that is an option, just adding stickers to boxes and mailers will let you send branded packages at a fraction of the cost. An attractive box inspired customers and influencers to film unboxing videos, as it makes a more interesting visual layout.

Here are different kinds of themed package stickers and label design ideas:

• Logo Labels: Create logo stickers so people can instantly know that their anticipated order has arrived. 
• Handling Instructions: Print a custom “Fragile” or “Do Not Bend” to encourage people to treat your box or envelope with care.
• Thank You Stickers: Seal the box with a large sticker thanking customers for their order
• Artistic Design: A pleasing pattern, fun graphic element, or delicate designs to improve the general appearance of the box. Make sure it matches your general company branding.

Decorate Individual Product Packages with Sticker Labels

Your branding shouldn’t end once the shipping container is open. Each product you send out should have an individual packaging label. This is especially important if you’re selling food, beauty, or household items that need to share ingredients, allergens, and other instructions. But you should also include your brand colors and graphics on decorative stickers that seal each product package. Especially if you’re sending mail to be opened in PR unboxing videos, this provides another surface to stick your branding. 

Use round stickers or oval stickers to seal anything wrapped up on protective paper or bubble wrap. For square or rectangular boxes, stick matching square or rectangle sticker shapes to seal it shut. GotPrint also offers fun label shapes, like starburst and heart, for branded stickers that add their own unique shape. 

If you’re mailing plastic or glass bottles, you can use Clear BOPP Labels to make it look as if your logo was printed directly onto the material. This is a cost-effective alternative to custom branded packaging, as it doesn’t require any bespoke boxes or containers. Elegant branding for candles, jarred goods, and bottled goods makes your products look high-end.

Other Uses for Branded Stickers

Throw in free stickers to thank your customers for their purchase. You can print your logo or slogan on a sticker for a simple design. Or you can get creative with it and make a new, unique sticker design. Customers can stick these to their laptops, tablets, water bottles, phone cases, or any other flat surface. This helps them show off how much they love your brand, which in turn helps it reach new spaces. When fans of your brand use your custom printed stickers on their daily tools or accessories, it extends the lifespan of your branded imagery.

Why It’s Important to Invest in Business Branding

Spending money on packaging accessories, freebies, and marketing materials might seem like a waste of money. And, especially in the early days of a small business, every dollar counts. But it’s a worthy investment. Using high-quality packaging instantly proves to your customers that your brand is legit. It reveals the care and detail you put into your company. Plus, it establishes a brand identity that people can easily identify. 

It becomes even more important if you want customers and your PR list to film unboxing videos. The box itself needs to be camera-ready. Strategically placing stickers creates a boutique unboxing experience that influencers and content creators will be excited to share with their audiences.

What Else Can Businesses Put Inside Packages?

Every element of your package is a way to communicate with your customers. Above all, you want to encourage them to make another sale. That’s where a retail thank you postcard comes in handy. You can write a short note thanking someone for supporting your small business. If you really want to entice them to buy something else, you can include a coupon code.  

There are many other ways you can use a promotional postcard to fill out your box. Create a custom postcard with a QR code that leads them to leave a review of their purchase or follow you on socials. If you want to provide more information about your brand story or product details, use postcards, flyers, or brochures to share detailed info. 

Use GotPrint’s free postcard templates to find a style that matches your brand. Browse our guide to small business packaging so you’re fully prepared to send out your shipments. From stickers to packaging inserts, all of these small details work together to create packages that feel personal. 

In professional scenarios–whether it’s for a business, team, club, or other organization–creating uniforms with customized apparel can be easy and affordable. It also creates a cohesive appearance for your team members or employees. Custom apparel also makes a thoughtful, personalized gift for any occasion, including birthdays, holidays, and special events like graduations and anniversaries.

GotPrints offers a selection of customizable apparel, such as t-shirts, hats, beanies, polos, and sweatshirts. We’ll guide you through choosing products, what design styles are available, and how to find the best apparel customization option for your needs. 

What is DTG Printing?

Direct to garment printing, or DTG, is a process of printing graphics into textiles and garments – it’s an affordable, full-color solution to custom apparel. The outcome is highly pigmented graphics on apparel that will last you quite some time. This apparel printing technology produces light, breathable designs that you can wear and wash regularly. Plus, it’s cost-effective, allowing companies, brands, and organizations to invest in bulk custom apparel printing.  

You may have heard of this method, as well as a comparative method of silk screen printing, in which silk screen layers the ink on top of the fabric. DTG, on the other hand, uses a special garment printer to add the design to the fabric. While GotPrint doesn’t offer silk screen printing, direct-to-garment generally lasts longer and is better for production-scale apparel printing.  

Products on our website that are compatible with DTG printing:

Crewneck T-shirts
If you want to create personalized photo shirts or make a design with a complicated graphic design or text, we’ll print your tshirt design directly onto the front of the shirt, the back of the shirt, or both sides. GotPrint offers eight crewneck t shirt colors: white, black, red, blue, cream/natural, charcoal, navy, and athletic heather. Custom shirts are available in multiple sizes, including sizing specific for men/unisex, women, youth, and toddlers. DTG t shirt printing lets you make a fully unique shirt. 

V-Neck T-Shirts

GotPrint’s custom v neck printing is similar to crewnecks; you can add your design on the front, back, or both sides of the cotton material, which is ideal for textile printing. We have DTG printing available for v necks in white and black. Both colors are available in both men’s/unisex sizing and women’s sizing. 

Crewneck Sweatshirts

Design a personalized crewneck sweatshirt with your design printed on seven different colors: white, black, davy, sky blue, red, athletic heather, and neon pink. GotPrint’s personalized crewnecks used DTG printing to add your design directly onto 50/50 cotton/poly fleece fabric. You can add a design to the front, the back, or both sides. 

Hoodie Sweatshirts

GotPrint offers custom sweatshirt printing on eight different sweatshirt colors: white, black, tan, athletic heather, red, navy blue, neon orange, and neon green. Each shade is made with 50/50 cotton/poly fleece. Like crewnecks, your custom sweatshirt design can be printed on the front, back, or both sides. 

Full Zip Hoodie Sweatshirts

GotPrint sells zip up hoodies in white and black, both of which are made with 50/50 cotton/poly fleece. You can print your custom design on the back of the jacket, which places it in the upper center of your back. Custom zip up jackets are available in unisex sizing.

How much does custom printed apparel cost?

The price of custom DTG printing varies by product. Printed crewneck shirts start at $9.76 for a small men’s/unisex white shirt, while custom printed v-necks start at $12.04. Custom printed crewneck sweatshirts are $23.37 for a single-sided design. Custom printed hoodies are $28.04. Custom printed zip up hoodies are $37.88. 

Typically, there is an additional cost to include designs on both the front and back of the product. GotPrint does not require an order minimum for DTG apparel printing.

What is Custom Embroidery? 

Embroidery brings a design to life using intricate threading. It is not technically a print type, but it is another popular method to design custom apparel. For our apparel products, the template for an embroidered design should typically fit in a 4″ x 4″ square. 

Embroidery is ideal for smaller, less complex designs such as simple logos, pocket art, and text sayings. Custom embroidered clothing typically adds the design to specific areas of the product, like the front of a hat or one side of the chest. Our machine embroidery produces clean, durable stitches for apparel and accessories you can wear frequently. 

One problem some people face when making embroidered designs is matching their graphics’ colors to the limited thread color options. GotPrint offers 12 different thread colors: White, Black, Silver, Gold, Red, Blue, Green, Yellow, Orange, Light Pink, Light Blue, and Brown. You can use any combination of these shades for your stitched design.

GotPrint offers custom embroidery services on a number of products: 

Hats

GotPrint’s hats come in seven colors: black, white, navy, khaki, olive green, red, and blue. Our custom hat embroidery allows you to stitch the design in the center of the hat. Order just 1 hat or up to 25 hats. 

Beanies

A custom embroidered beanie is the perfect accessory in winter. GotPrint sells beanies in nine colors: black, white, athletic gray, red, olive green, millennium blue, brown, navy, and coyote brown. We’ll stitch your design on the 3-inch folded cuff on the front of the stretchy acrylic fabric.

Polo Shirts 

Stitch your embroidery pattern onto the right or left chest of a custom polo shirt. GotPrint offers six polo shirt colors: white, black, light gray, navy, red, and royal blue. All the colors come in a comfortable 50/50 cotton polyester fabric. Our high-end polos are the best option for professional shirt embroidery. 

Crewneck Sweatshirts

GotPrint’s personalized crewneck embroidery is available os seven different fabric colors: white, black, athletic heather, navy, sky blue, red, and neon pink. We’ll delicately embroider your design on either the right or left side of the chest. Plus, our long-lasting embroidered crewnecks are machine washable (just don’t iron the design). 

Hoodie Sweatshirts

As with DTG printing, GotPrint’s custom embroidered sweaters come in nine colors: white, black, tan, athletic heather, red, navy blue, neon orange, and neon green. Custom sweatshirt embroidery is available on the left or right side of the chest.

Full Zip Hoodie Sweatshirts

GotPrint’s custom embroidered zip up hoodies are available in white and black fabric. Add your product to the left or right side of the YKK metal zipper. Personalized zip up jackets are a great product for custom logo embroidery. 

How much does custom embroidery cost?

The cost for custom embroidered apparel will depend on the product. Embroidered crewnecks are $44.17. Embroidered hoodie sweatshirts are $44.90. Embroidered zip ups are $44.86. Custom polos are $25.58. Custom hat embroidery is $22.28. Beanie embroidery is $23.76. 

One benefit of using GotPrint for personalized embroidery is that we do not charge per thread color. You can use up to 12 different thread colors in your design with no additional charge. We also guarantee custom embroidery no minimum purchase required. So you can order just one product or bulk order apparel. 

Comparing DTG vs Embroidery

Choosing between DTG and embroidery will depend on the type of design you want to make and what products you want to buy. Go with direct to garment apparel printing when you want to include a complex, full color design, like graphics or photos. There are no color limitations with DTG. Plus, printed apparel includes a large space for your design. Custom DTG printing is the best option when creating affordable promotional items for giveaways and freebies at conventions, tradeshows, and other promotional events. 

Select embroidery when you have a simple design and you prefer more professional-looking custom attire. Embroidered designs tend to look more sophisticated than DTG. The fine stitching has a very particular appearance that instantly elevates whatever apparel you want. That’s why customized embroidery is best for corporate apparel and custom branded apparel.

Which will you choose for your next apparel project, Embroidery or DTG? Share your custom apparel from GP on social media and tag us for a chance to be featured @GotPrint.

*Prices are subject to change at any time

Fonts should always be in sync with the design and target audience, so it’s important to have an arsenal of amazing fonts at your disposal for various projects. The best font for business cards will be different for each composition. Here is a collection of 15 simple yet professional fonts suitable for business cards.

What is the Best Font for a Business Card?

The best business cards fonts balance readability with style. Too much flourish, like an elaborate script font, and no one will be able to read your email. Too simple, like a basic, black Times New Roman text printed on a plain white background, and your business card won’t stand out from the pile. The font should also be attractive to your intended customers or clients. A senior finance professional should stick with traditional fonts, such as Times New Roman or Helvetica. People in artistic fields, like graphic design or writing, can use fun fonts, like Futura®. Typically, a business card features a serif font, which has decorative lines at the ends of each longer line, or a sans serif font, which does not have those extra lines. These types of fonts are easy to read. 

How to Choose Business Card Fonts

Choosing business card fonts will depend on your industry, job title, and intended audience. Start with the general aesthetic you’re trying to achieve – modern, minimalist, traditional, quirky, etc. 

Next, you have to consider where you will source fonts. Many of the best free fonts are easy to download (and many are available through GotPrint’s free design templates). It should also pair well with your pre-existing business branding. An ultra-modern company logo design might look odd next to a decorative script font. Use any fonts or styles that fit your brand identity.  

The business card font size will also depend on what information that line is conveying. The best business card layout will feature business card text size variety. For primary information, like your name, use 10-16 pt. sizing, depending on which font you’re using. Your job title or department should be between 8-10 pt. Your contact information should be 7-9 pt. Don’t print anything below 7 pt, as it will be difficult to read.

How Many Fonts Should You Use on a Business Card? 

Most designers follow the 3 Font Rule. What is the 3 Font Rule? It’s a general guideline suggesting you limit your layout to three fonts. This prevents your design from being too cluttered and busy. It also helps establish a visual hierarchy. Use one font for the heading – your name, a different font for the subheading – your job title – and another font for the body – your contact information and other copy. If you don’t want to use three fonts, you can use different text sizes to create the same visual effect. However, you should not use more than three font sizes on your business cards. 

If you’re going to use different fonts, you should keep them within the same font family, which is a group of fonts that share similar design features. You can combine one serif font with one sans serif font, or explore different font postures (regular, italic, or bold).

Best Fonts for Business Cards

1. Helvetica

Helvetica is a classic for a reason, and it remains a top choice when it comes professional looking fonts for business cards. Helvetica is simple without being boring. The Grotesque sans serif typeface was originally designed in Switzerland in 1957 and quickly replaced Futura as the world’s most popular sans serif font. If you’re considering multiple fonts for business cards, you can’t go wrong with Helvetica. 

As graphic designer Dicran K. explains, “My favorite font is Helvetica. Some fonts have such a strong personality that they drive the overall design. Helvetica, in my opinion, is more than a font, but a design tool; the letterforms are perfectly crafted and pleasing to the eye. It’s a timeless typeface.”

2. KG Sorry Not Sorry

When it comes to your business card, you want your name to stand out. KG Sorry Not Sorry was designed to stand out in a professional manner. Designer Kimberly Geswein describes the font like this: “It’s a clean, all-caps font that looks great for names.”

KG Sorry Not Sorry is easily readable with a casual flair, so it’s a great choice for users who want their business cards to have a conversational feel.

3. Riesling

The Riesling font is timeless, smooth, and elegant, just like the classic wine it’s named for. According to designer Evian, “I love the delicacy of the font and the exaggerated descender. The font is highly stylized with lines that go from thick to thin, while the tracking is very tight and clean with a touch of playfulness.” 

Riesling adds a European touch to any design, and it is sure to stand out on any business card without feeling overly showy. This quirky business card font style is perfect for people in artistic fields.

4. Gibson

Gibson continues to be a popular font among designers for a good reason. It offers an easy-to-read sans serif typeface created by famed Canadian type designer Rod McDonald. Gibson is a business card typography that immediately catches the eye. 

5. Ciutadella

Many times, less is more, and the hallmark of Ciutadella is its simplicity. The font’s clean appearance fits in perfectly with a variety of design styles. Creator Eduardo Manso designed this geometric sans serif font to be simple without being boring.

6. Centrale Sans

If you’re searching for an open font with a modern look for your business card, you can’t go wrong with Centrale Sans. This warm, friendly font is professional without feeling stuffy. Centrale Sans is a good font for business cards, since it is easy to read. 

7. Infinity

As its name suggests, this font offers an infinite amount of possibilities. Infinity is easily legible with a uniquely modern touch. When you utilize this font on your business card, you’ll appreciate its simple lines and curves.

8. Garden Gnome

This rounded, bouncy font has a whimsical flair. Thanks to its happy style, it’s an excellent choice for business cards for those in child-related businesses, such as children’s book authors, teachers, or other specialists.

9. Campton

Make a statement with this geometric, unconventional font. Your name is sure to stand out on your business card when you add a modern touch with Campton. The font incorporates touches from Johnston Sans and Gill Sans with a contemporary flair.

10. Jaapokki

Old world charm and modern, clean lines meet in the Jaapokki font family. The font is clean and well-balanced, making it an excellent choice for business cards and other print projects. Best of all, Jaapokki, two alternatives, and a large set of glyphs are all available at no charge to users across the globe.

11. Nexa

When you are creating a business card, you want to make sure that your message and contact information is clearly conveyed. Nexa offers excellent legibility thanks to its clean lines and understated elegance. The Nexa font family includes 16 different styles and weights, so you can add variety to your business card while enjoying continuity between Nexa styles.

12. Trajan

Bring a touch of classic style to your next business card design by incorporating Trajan. This font was inspired by classic Roman letterforms. Its understated elegance helps set your business card apart from the crowd while remaining professional. Trajan is a traditional font that is ideal for formal business networking. 

13. Futura®

Future was first presented by the Bauer Type Foundry in 1928, and this classic font has withstood the test of time. Designers appreciate its generous line spacing and wide range of weights and styles, and viewers immediately notice Futura’s strength and clarity.

14. CODE

CODE incorporates many details of traditional sans serif fonts and adds a modern twist. Designers describe this all-caps font as clean and elegant, and readers appreciate that it is straight to the point.

15. Nevis

If you want the information on your business card to stand out, Nevis is an excellent choice. This strong typeface features strong angles, and it is especially eye-catching when it is used in all caps. Use it to emphasize your name on your business card when you need to portray a strong, but friendly, persona.

The next time you’re searching for inspiration for a business card font, looking through these choices is a great place to start. The best font for business card designs won’t be the same for everyone. Consider the message you want to send, and check to see if any of these fonts is the right fit for your design style. 

In addition to these 15 options, there are plenty of other amazing fonts available for today’s designers. Browse GotPrint’s free business card templates to see the wide variety of free fonts available in our customizable designs. These business card layout ideas can inspire your own unique business card design, or you can customize the pre-selected fonts on business card template designs with your professional information. You can also change the fonts on the pre-made design for a layout that best fits your needs. 

Whether you use classic or trendy fonts, your carefully designed business cards will impress any clients, customers, or coworkers when you print them with GotPrint.

Pet water bowls are left out all day, so these products are permanent fixtures in your home. That’s why designing cute dog bowls, fun cat dishes, or decorative pet mats ensures all your pet supplies match your interior design. You can even design a pet feeding station made entirely of matching bowls and mats. Here’s how you can personalize your setup with decorative but practical pet products. 

Custom Pet Bowls

From their daily meals to quick water breaks, your pet dishes are frequently used. Designing personalized dog food bowls and cat food bowls adds a touch of unique style to this area of your home. GotPrint currently offers large pet bowls that can hold up to 39 oz of food and water. These dishes are ideal for larger pets. The size offers plenty of space for your custom pet dish design, which wraps around the bowl. Plus, you won’t have the generic dishes that everyone else uses. They’ll look great when displayed in your home. 

Dog Pet Bowl Design Ideas

The most common style of personalized dog bowls features your dog’s name. This is especially helpful if you have multiple dogs. Labeling the dishes ensures each pet gets the exact type and portion of food they require. Choose a fun font and color for the design – a delicate dog breed like a poodle might fit a dainty script font, while a sturdy breed like a beagle matches a block text font. You can simply print the name on the white ceramic dog bowl, add a colorful background, or add other design elements to the layout. Lean into the dog theme for your customized dog bowl. Create a pattern or simple design with paw prints, bones, dog toys, or cute illustrated dogs. These designs create a clear theme in the corner of your home dedicated to your dogs. 

Alternatively, you can create funny dog bowls. Print a cute hot dog pattern or simple text that reads “I love my human.” For a dog water bowl and dog food bowl set, print “dinner” on one and “drinks” on the other. This adds a bit of personality to the space. Even though your dogs can’t laugh, you’ll get a kick out of it. 

Your dog dishes can also include a cute pattern that matches your design style. After all, you’ll care about the aesthetic appearance more than your beloved dogs will. From cute floral motifs to checkered prints to colorful designs, GotPrints personalized dog food bowls are fully customizable so that you can create a design unique to your home.

Cat Pet Bowl Design Ideas

There are many different ways to customize a ceramic cat bowl. Print your cat’s name on the front of the bowl. You can also design a matching cat water bowl and cat food bowl set. Print a cute fish design on the food bowl and a milk cartoon design on the water bowl. You can lean into fun artwork with mouse designs, fish bones, cute cats, cat ears, or whiskers. Cute cat bowls can also include patterns like polka dots, sardines, oysters, or flowers. Funny cat bowls are another way to add a fun touch to your home. Order a cat bowl that says “world domination fuel” or “feed me.” 

GotPrint will be launching small cat bowls soon, so you’ll be able to order custom cat dishes. 

GotPrint is the best shop for custom pet food bowls. Our bowls are made of high-end ceramic, and the premium material allows them to withstand repeated use. It is also dishwasher safe. This makes it easy to keep the feeding area clean. The design is printed with long-lasting, full-color ink that stands out beautifully against the white ceramic background. Our large 39 oz pet bowls are perfect for bigger pets, and we’ll be launching small 9 oz bowls soon. Whether you want to design custom pet bowls with pet’s name printed on them, cute paw print pet bowls, or a photo bowl, GotPrint is the best place to go for a matching dog bowl set and personalized cat bowls.

Custom Pet Mats

Nothing is worse than water and food spilled all over your floors. It’s important to buy pet bowl mats to keep that area of your home clean. Pet food mats, like a dog food mat and a cat food mat, will protect your floors from any stray messes. GotPrint offers the best personalized pet mats. The smooth Neoprene Surface is heavy-duty, so it can withstand frequent use and cover your floors. The bottom of the mat is made of non-slip rubber. This durable material keeps it in place and prevents the food bowls from shifting around. The mats are 12″ x 17″, which offers plenty of space for the bowls. 

Personalized dog food and water mats often have the dog’s name printed on the top surface. Print the name along the bottom edge of the dog bowl mat, then place the dishes in a way that keeps the name on display. Your personalized dog food mats establish a clear area for the pet feeding area of your home. If you don’t want to include text, you can include classic patterns, like stripes or waves, or you can have playful artwork, like dog bones or dogs sniffing for food. 

Cat food mats also usually have the cat’s name incorporated into the design. Add fun graphic designs to the layout, like whiskers next to the name or a cat photo. Or you can design a mat that matches the bowls. Some people prefer to have a patterned cat bowl mat underneath simple bowl designs, while others like the visual style of the opposite design approach.

How to Clean a Pet Food Area

Keeping the pet area is crucial to reducing smells and limiting visual clutter. GotPrint’s pet bowls are dishwasher safe, though we suggest handwashing them to preserve the printed design as long as possible. Most professionals suggest washing your pet’s food bowls once a day. This prevents germs and bacteria from accumulating, and it prevents any lingering food smells. Similarly, you should clean your pet’s water bowl every day. While this may seem excessive, it’s important for your dog or cat’s health. 

GotPrint’s pet mats are also easy to clean. You can wipe it down with disinfectant, then handwash it in warm water with mild soap. This protects the printed design while still thoroughly cleaning the material. 

More Custom Products for Pet Owners

There are many other ways to show off how much you love your pets. Start with home decor, like a dog print or cute cat pictures. Dog wall art can include framed prints, personalized dog canvas wall art, and mounted wall prints. Upload a picture of a dog to GotPrint’s online designer, or create a collage of your favorite photos. It can be a solo shot, a photo of you and your dog, or custom artwork inspired by your pet. Cat wall art, like cat canvas wall art or metal prints, features the best photos of your cat. 

There are other ways you can showcase your pets. A personalized dog mug or personalized cat mug brightens up your morning coffee, which you can enjoy while your pet eats breakfast at their fully personalized feeding area. Order dog mugs for all your friends, or design cat mugs for your family members. GotPrint’s photo mugs are easy to customize with photos, text, and graphics. If you want an activity, then a custom dog puzzle or a cat puzzle lets you reconstruct your favorite pet photo. A custom dog shirt or custom cat shirt lets you create personalized apparel dedicated to your pet. What’s funnier than walking your dog while wearing a shirt with its photo? 

With all of these custom-printed pet products ready, you can prove that you are your dog or cat’s biggest fan.

What do you need to start a stationery business? 

• Print Products
• Social Media Accounts
• A Website or Sales Platform
• A registered LLC 
• Marketing Prints

Find a Design Style

As a designer, your artistic flair is your best asset. Establishing a distinct style will help you reach the right audience and find your design niche. You might be tempted to chase trending styles. That can help you reach an initial audience and provide a quick sales boost. While you can experiment with designs, establishing your own distinct style is better than following every trend. This makes your brand more authentic. Plus, selling the same designs as everyone else will likely require lower prices in order to be competitive. But a truly one-of-a-kind design can justify a higher price point. 

Design Style Examples:

• Minimalist
• Floral
• Abstract
• Fine Line
• Watercolor
• Cartoon 
• Kawaii

Find Your Audience or Product Niche

People often buy stationery for specific events. That’s why finding your niche can help you corner the market. Sometimes, it’s as simple as a product category. You can design the best bookmarks, offer a wide variety of wedding invitation designs, or craft the best notepad layout. You can also focus on specific event stationery. Some are very competitive, but offer opportunities for premium pricing and luxury prints, like wedding stationery or holiday cards. Others offer opportunities for repeat customers, like postcard art prints and stationery subscription boxes. 

Popular Stationery Categories:

• Wedding Stationery: Engaged couples need to order many prints: save the dates, RSVP cards, invitations, thank you cards, and more stationery for the big day. 
• Book Lovers: Cute bookmarks, reading notepads, and bookish stickers are all great ways to reach people who are enthusiastic about a physical print product.
• School Stationery: Stock up on personalized notepads for classes, folders for homework, and other stationery essentials for students, teachers, and administrators. 
• Art Prints: Show off your original artwork on postcards, greeting cards, posters, canvas prints, and other art merch.
• Special Occasions: Birthday cards, graduation cards, anniversary cards, baby shower invitations, Christmas cards, and other personalized stationery cards. Sell individual cards or bulk prints. 
• Everyday Stationery: Customized notecards, to-do lists, personalized letterhead, bookmarks, cute stickers, and other prints people can use daily. 

Popular Stationery Products

• Event Invitations: Print postcards to invite people to all your important events. 
• Greeting Cards: Design thank you cards, just because cards, holiday cards, birthday cards, and other notes. 
• Envelopes: Some people still value snail mail. Cute envelope designs make the experience of receiving a letter even more fun.  
• Notepads: To-do lists, grocery lists, TBR lists, reading notes, planners, journal notes, recipes, etc. 
• Stickers: Cute decorative stickers for mail, journal stickers, laptop stickers, Kindle stickers, and more fun decals.
• Stationery Sets: matching greeting cards/postcards and envelopes, letterhead, notecards. These sets typically feature a handful of matching prints that practically pair together. 
• Stationery Subscription Boxes: Send your biggest fans a box of themed print products at regular intervals. Pack boxed with notecards, notepads, pens, highlighters, washi tape, stamps, joruanling cards, or any other stationery items people regularly restock.

Find the Right Printer

Designing your stationery products is only the first step. Some people even stop here and just upload design files that people can use online. But an online stationery shop can also sell prints directly to consumers–as long as they find a printer that can offer well-crafted stationery items. GotPrint is the best custom stationery supplier, since we offer a wide variety of stationery products made with high-quality materials. You can choose between our various paper stocks, including a glossy 14 pt. and a thick, matte 16 pt. Paper. You can even print Raised Foil cards or Raised UV cards for luxury stationery. 

Find the Right Sales Platform

There are many different websites you can use to sell stationery. Etsy is one of the most popular stationery shops, since many people shop there and trust the site. But you can also create your own website, which gives you significantly more control over your products. Some people use sites like Depop and Poshmark for their listings, even though people aren’t necessarily searching for stationery on those platforms. Learn the ins and outs of your platform of choice. Consider the pre-existing competition, keyword research, and best practices for listings. Some sites will also take a portion of each sale, which you’ll need to keep in mind when establishing your prices. 

Consider some creative social storefronts as well. Many people discover new artists and small businesses on social media platforms like TikTok and Instagram. Consider setting up on TikTok Shop or Instagram Shop, which allows people to purchase directly from your posts.

Prepare Your Packaging 

Your business prints don’t stop with the stationery products you sell. Curating your brand as a small business relies on attention to small details that make a big impression. That’s why it’s important to invest in packaging and marketing prints. Packaging stickers let you decorate your boxes or mailers with your logo or other branded imagery. Inside the package, you can show appreciation for your customers with thank you postcards, which can even include a discount code for their next purchase. Prepare plastic covers or other protective items to cover the items you’re shipping. 

Promote Your Products

As a small business owner, it’s important to promote your stationery store. There’s no point in crafting designs, ordering prints, and creating listings if they can’t reach people. There are several different paid ad routes, including Google and sponsored Etsy listings. But the most organic way to increase sales is through your own social media accounts. Stationery accounts are extremely popular online. Film videos, post photos, launch products, and offer giveaways online to reach new audiences. Curating an authentic feed on TikTok, Instagram, YouTube, and any other social platform can get the word out. 

Another advertising option to consider is influencer marketing. This often comes at a loss, as the traditional model is sending free prints in exchange for a promotional post. But if you choose the right influencers, it can significantly expand your reach. After all, 58% of US shoppers have made purchases after an influencer endorsed a product.

Types of Influencers: 

• Stationery Influencers
• BookTok
• Journaling Influencers
• CraftTok
• Lifestyle Influencers

Consistently Update Designs

Many sales platforms reward storefronts that consistently update their offerings. While it might seem difficult to keep up with, it’s an opportunity to expand your business and explore new designs, products, and services. It also encourages you to make seasonally relevant designs and get a quick boost in sales – fall prints, holiday gifts, graduation designs, among other holiday cards. This also lets you expand your style and continue to grow as an artist.

Is a Stationery Business Profitable?

A stationery business can be a profitable one. After all, the industry is predicted to reach $173.93 billion in 2026. But you need to be intentional with your business strategy. It’s smart to launch your company as a side hustle and allow it to grow. Start with a small batch of orders and a limited product or design range. This establishes your company without wasting money on items that might not end up being popular. As interest grows and sales increase, it makes more sense to invest in bulk prints of your most popular items. Bulk printing stationery will help you save money in the long run, since the cost per item will be lower. Keep track of your business expenses. You don’t want to spend more money on printing and shipping than you’re bringing in through sales. 

Once you’ve started your stationery business, you’ll need to keep up with your print orders. Partnering with GotPrint as your stationery supplier is the best way to ensure your brand is known for premium print quality and long-lasting stationery products. 

GotPrint understands the printing process can be complicated, and we want you to be pleased with your prints. Once you have DPI explained simply, you’ll be able to prepare your print files and place your orders properly. 

What Does DPI Stand For?

DPI stands for Dots Per Inch. This reflects how many dots of ink are used for one inch of the design. This is specifically related to printing ink dots, not digital screen pixels. How many dots per inch for printing each item will depend on the type of print product.

What is DPI?

Clear image resolution is a crucial element of the printing process. DPI is one component of file setup for print products that makes your designs look sharp. It doesn’t matter if you’re printing photos, business cards, t-shirts, or banners; the design file you upload needs to have the correct DPI. A higher DPI results in a dense, detailed print with intricate depth. Because it has more ink droplets printed closer together across one inch, the details in your design won’t be lost in the printing process. Clarity is also important, especially if you’re printing elaborate images or designs. A low DPI typically looks blurry because the file conveys less information to the printer. 

How to Choose the Printing DPI

You can find the correct DPI for each GotPrint product under the File Setup tab on the order form. For almost all of our customizable print products, we require 350 DPI. This produces sharply defined prints. Generally, the viewing distance will determine the DPI. Items that will be seen nearby, like flyers or catalogs, require a higher DPI because any blurriness will be evident when reading. However, large signage can use a lower DPI. GotPrint’s signs, like banners and foam boards, have a minimum requirement of 150 DPI. This is because most signs are viewed from far away, so people won’t notice any change in quality. When designs are viewed from a distance, human eyes naturally fill in the details, even if those extra dots aren’t printed on the surface. This means your custom signs will still look professionally printed even with a lower image resolution. 

What is the Standard Dots Per Inch for Printed Works?

For most print products, the standard DPI is 350. This high resolution produces sharp images, legible text, and deep colors. 

How to Check DPI

You can check DPI by downloading the file to your device. On Windows, you can open File Explorer, right-click, and view the image properties. Click the “Details” tab, then browse information about the image file, including the DPI. On Mac, you can right-click the image, click “Preview,” go to “Tools,” and choose “Show Inspector.”  Then select “General Info” at the top and browse the image information. 

How to Change DPI

Changing DPI for a file will depend on what software you’re using. After all, each platform has different methods for editing the print file. Most design editing software programs will have their own, more specific tutorials for making these changes. Here are simple guides for the most popular editing software: 

• Adobe Photoshop: Open your image, then go to “Image,” choose “Image Size,” and change the DPI resolution. 
• Adobe Illustrator: Select “Raster Effects Settings” and choose a DPI resolution available in the drop-down menu. 
• Canva: Select “Position” from the toolbar, click the “Advanced” menu, and type the pixel values (DPI) you need.  
• Procreate: Open your image, go to “Actions,” then “Canvas,” then “Crop and Resize.” Type the required minimum DPI. 

Does DPI Impact Colors?

Yes, DPI does impact how colors print. When there are more dots per inch in your prints, the details improve each color’s richness and depth. It assists with color accuracy. Including more dots lets you create a wider range of colors. Before uploading your design, you should make sure what color mode your design needs to be in: RGB or CMYK. 

DPI For Different Products

What is the Correct DPI for Business Cards?

The right DPI for business cards is 350. Since these prints are small and will be seen up close, it’s important that the intricate details are clear and the text is legible. Most marketing prints are at least 350 DPI. 

What is the Correct DPI for Brochures?

Your brochure file DPI should be at least 350 DPI. Since brochures are often text and image-heavy, these details need to be clear. A high DPI ensures each design element is distinct and readable. 

What is the Correct DPI for Booklets and Catalogs?

Booklets and catalogs should have a 350 DPI. Product catalogs, menus, user manuals, magazines, and any other multi-page booklets made with glossy pages require a high image resolution. After all, you want any product images to look sharp, and the text must clearly stand out on the page. Make sure to use legible fonts and color palettes to help readers as they flip through the pages.

What is the Correct DPI for Signage?

The correct signage DPI is at least 150. This is because signs often feature simple designs that are seen from a distance: banners hung from the ceiling, posters displayed high on a wall, or aluminium signs placed on the side of a building. The DPI for banner printing is 150, since they are typically displayed well above eye-level. For signs that will be viewed up close, consider using a higher DPI. That ensures your trade show signs, event signs, and any other displays in smaller spaces look high-end. 

What is the Correct DPI for Posters?

The right DPI for printing posters is at least 150 DPI, especially if they will be seen from a distance. 150 DPI is also the best 24×36 poster resolution. If they will be seen from up close, consider increasing the DPI to 200-250. 

What is the Correct DPI for Photo Wall Art?

Photo wall art, including canvas prints, framed prints, mounted wall prints, and metal wall prints, should all have a 300 DPI. This ensures your printed images, like family photos, portraits, and pet photos, look nice hanging on your wall.

What is the Correct DPI for Custom Apparel?

350 DPI is the correct image resolution for custom printed apparel, including t-shirts, hoodies, and crewnecks. 

Use the Right Print Resolution For Premium Prints

The quality of your print job begins with your print-ready files. You need to upload high-resolution files in the correct color mode to receive prints you’re proud to distribute, especially if they are marketing print products. After all, no one will trust a brand that passes out blurry flyers or unreadable brochures. People are more likely to trust a company or businessperson who invests in well-crafted prints. Using the right DPI for your print orders sets you up for success. If you want to make sure your files are ready to go, read GotPrint’s File Checklist to feel confident in what you’re uploading.