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How do I make a professional business card online for free?

Open AnyTool’s Business Card Maker, type your name, job title, company, phone, email, website, address, social handle and a tagline, upload an optional logo, then pick a template, layout, card size and accent colour. A double-sided card is drawn live on a high-DPI canvas, and you can download a 300-DPI PNG or a print-ready PDF (front and back, at the exact physical size, with a 3 mm bleed and optional crop marks). Everything — including your details and your logo — is drawn in your browser and never uploaded.

  • Standard sizes: US/Canada 3.5 × 2 in (88.9 × 50.8 mm), EU 85 × 55 mm, square, or a custom size in millimetres
  • Five templates (Modern, Classic, Minimal, Bold, Creative) and four layouts (left-aligned, centered, logo-top, sidebar accent)
  • The name is the focal point, then title and company, then contact lines with small drawn icons; keep text inside the green safe margin
  • Print-ready PDF with a 3 mm bleed and corner crop marks (front + back pages), plus a 300-DPI PNG of either face
  • 100% client-side — your details and uploaded logo never leave your device

What is

Business Card Maker

A business card maker is a design tool that turns your name, job title, company, contact details, logo and tagline into a formatted, double-sided business card — at a standard size such as 3.5 × 2 in or 85 × 55 mm, with a clear visual hierarchy and a brand colour — and exports it as a high-resolution image and a print-ready PDF with bleed and crop marks for a print shop.

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Related terms

Visiting CardContact CardBleedCrop MarksSafe MarginFront and BackPNG & PDF Export

Frequently Asked Questions

Yes. It is free with no signup, and your name, contact details and any uploaded logo are drawn only in your browser — nothing is uploaded.

AnyTool’s Business Card Maker is completely free with no account, no watermark and no sign-up wall. The card is drawn on an HTML canvas entirely on your device, and both the high-resolution PNG and the print-ready PDF are produced locally with a built-in engine (pdf-lib), so your name, job title, company, phone, email, website, address, social handle, tagline and even an uploaded logo never leave the browser. The tool works offline once the page is cached.

US/Canada is 3.5 × 2 in (88.9 × 50.8 mm) and most of the world uses 85 × 55 mm. Bleed is a 3 mm overflow beyond the trim; crop marks show where to cut.

The standard business card is 3.5 × 2 inches (88.9 × 50.8 mm) in the US and Canada, while most of Europe and the rest of the world uses 85 × 55 mm; the maker also offers a square card and a custom size in millimetres. “Bleed” is a small margin (3 mm, about 0.125 in) of background that extends past the trim line so that, after the printer cuts the card, there is no thin white edge if the cut drifts slightly. “Crop marks” are short corner lines just outside the trim that tell the printer exactly where to cut. The maker shows the trim and a 3 mm safe margin on screen and adds the bleed and optional crop marks to the print-ready PDF.

Yes. Design the front and a back (logo, tagline or blank), then download a two-page print-ready PDF with bleed and crop marks, or a 300-DPI PNG of either face.

Use the front/back toggle to design both sides: the front carries your name, title, company and contact lines, and the back becomes a strong accent block with your logo or tagline (or you can leave it blank for a single-sided card). Click “Print-ready PDF” to build a two-page PDF (front on page one, back on page two) at the exact physical size with a 3 mm bleed and optional corner crop marks, ready to send to a print shop, or “Download PNG” to export a 300-DPI image of the face you are viewing. You can also print directly from the live preview.

Not exactly. Screens are RGB and presses are CMYK, so some colours can shift — ask your printer for a proof and do a test print first.

The preview and exports use screen RGB colour, but commercial printers use CMYK inks, so some colours — especially bright blues and greens — can shift when printed. For best results, send your print shop the print-ready PDF (with bleed and crop marks) rather than the PNG, keep important text inside the green safe margin so nothing is trimmed, request a proof and do a small test print before ordering a large run. Standard sizes also vary by region, so confirm the size your printer expects (3.5 × 2 in in the US/Canada, 85 × 55 mm elsewhere).

Detailed Explanation

How It Works

In-Browser Business Card Design

AnyTool’s Business Card Maker turns a name, job title, company, full contact set, social handle, tagline and an optional logo into a professional, double-sided business card — at a standard size, with a clear visual hierarchy and a brand colour — entirely in the browser. Both faces are painted on an HTML canvas by a single pure renderer (renderFace), so the high-DPI live preview, the 300-DPI PNG export and the bleed-extended image the PDF embeds all share one source of truth. The print-ready PDF is assembled client-side with pdf-lib at the exact physical size.

  • Name is the visual focal point, then title and company, then contact lines with small drawn monoline icons
  • Standard sizes: US/Canada 3.5×2 in (88.9×50.8 mm), EU 85×55 mm, square, or a custom size in millimetres
  • Five templates (Modern, Classic, Minimal, Bold, Creative) and four layouts (left, centered, logo-top, sidebar accent band)
  • Double-sided: the back is a strong accent block with your logo or tagline, or blank for a single-sided card
  • Export a 300-DPI PNG per face or a print-ready PDF (front + back) with a 3 mm bleed and optional crop marks — no server, no CDN
Methodology

Print-Ready Output: Bleed, Safe Margin and Crop Marks

The maker is built for real printing. Standard business cards are 3.5×2 in (US/Canada) or 85×55 mm (most of the world); the tool also supports a square card and a custom size in millimetres. On screen it overlays the trim line and a 3 mm safe margin so important text stays clear of the cut. For the PDF, each face is rendered to a bleed-extended canvas at 300 DPI in which the background overflows the trim by 3 mm (about 0.125 in) so no white edge appears if the cut drifts, and pdf-lib places it at the exact physical size in points (1 in = 72 pt) with optional corner crop marks just outside the trim that tell a print shop where to cut. Front and back become page one and page two.

  • Trim sizes in millimetres converted to PDF points (1 in = 72 pt) for true physical size
  • 3 mm bleed: the background overflows the trim so a slightly off cut leaves no white edge
  • 3 mm safe margin shown on screen so key text is not trimmed off
  • Corner crop marks drawn just outside the trim for the print shop
  • PNG exported off-screen at 300 DPI from the same renderer as the preview
Privacy & Security

Privacy: Your Details and Logo Never Leave the Device

Because the entire tool runs client-side, your name, job title, company, phone, email, website, address, social handle, tagline and any uploaded logo are drawn only in the browser and are never uploaded, logged or stored on a server. The canvas, the PNG it exports and the pdf-lib PDF are all produced locally, so there is no server round-trip and no CDN, and the page works offline once cached, with no account, watermark or sign-up wall.

  • No upload of your name, contact details, tagline or logo
  • Canvas render, PNG export and PDF generation all happen locally
  • No account, no watermark, no sign-up wall
  • Works offline after first load
Business card design: in-browser (AnyTool) vs typical online card makers
CapabilityAnyToolTypical online card makers
ProcessingDrawn on a canvas in your browser, no CDNOften server-side / account-based
PrivacyYour details & logo never uploaded; offline-capableData usually sent to and stored on a server
SizesUS 3.5×2 in, EU 85×55 mm, square or custom mmOften fixed to a few presets
Print setup3 mm bleed, on-screen safe margin and crop marks in the PDFBleed/crop marks often gated or print-only
Front & backBoth sides designed; two-page print-ready PDFBack often paid or limited
Logo & brandingLocal PNG/JPEG upload, no watermarkOften gated or watermarked on free plans
Export300-DPI PNG and print-ready PDF, plus printSometimes image-only or tied to their print service
Cost / signupFree, no signup, no watermarkOften requires an account or paid upgrade
HonestyStates RGB vs CMYK shift; advises a test printRarely stated

AnyTool draws every business card and produces its PNG and print-ready PDF locally in the browser and uploads nothing.