Business card options

Your designer’s card as it stands today, shown here so everything below can be compared against it.

Your logo on your own background, with your details on the back. The safest of everything here and the one that suits any situation.

The everyday card with a band of your peach along the bottom edge, echoed as a fine line on the back.

The everyday card with no new shapes at all — the purple simply does more, opening and closing the block of text on the back.

The everyday card with the peach turned up: one even warm colour across the whole front, so it reads from across a room. The back stays quiet.

The painted bird carries the front on its own, with your name small underneath. A test of whether the bird can hold the card without the lettering.

Worth knowing. The painted bird is a photograph rather than a drawing, so this is about as large as it can go before it softens.

The back set purely as type — your name, your title beneath it, then your details. No lines, no boxes.

The back gets a dark band across the top holding your name and title, with your details below it.

The back goes fully dark with everything in cream. The code sits on a pale patch so a phone can still read it.

The back where your purple leads — a full-height panel of it carrying the bird and your name, with your details alongside.

The back split into two columns by a fine line: your name on one side, your details labelled on the other.

A dark band across the top carrying your name, with a flock of birds sweeping below it — taken from the murmuration on your website.

The same layout with the birds barely there, in a slightly deeper shade of your own background. The quietest of the five.

The same layout with the whole front dark and the birds lifted in purple over it. The back stays pale.

The same layout using your painted corners instead of the birds. The closest of the five to what your designer drew.

The same layout with nothing below the band at all, so you can see what the birds are actually adding.

Your name and title on the front, and a back that opens with your practice number — the number a client needs to claim from their medical aid — directly under your name.

The front carries everything; the back is left ruled and open so you can write the next appointment on it in the room.

Worth knowing. Needs an uncoated card so a pen actually writes on it — no gloss finish.

Formal and centred between two fine lines, meant to feel like an engraved plate beside a door.

A single line running the height of the card with everything arranged along it. The most modern of the practice cards.

Two clear zones — a dark panel saying who you are, and a pale one giving your numbers at their largest size anywhere.

Type and nothing else, with one very small bird. If you want the information to speak and the design to disappear, this is it.

A deep ink front with your bird alone in cream, and nothing else. The most confident card here.

Your full logo given the whole front at a generous size, with a dark back carrying your name and details.

Worth knowing. Your logo runs large here, and the painted bird inside it is a photograph rather than a drawing, so it softens a little at this size.

Birds rising across a pale front and settling across a dark back — daylight on one side, dusk on the other.

Your bird enormously enlarged and cropped by the edges, so it reads as a texture across the card rather than as a logo.

The same enlarged bird on a dark front, lifted in purple so it reads as a shadow of itself.

A card made of layers, so the cut edge shows a dark line between two pale faces.

Worth knowing. Needs a special card made of layers so the cut edge shows both colours. Not every printer stocks it.

The card stood upright, with your website running down the edge and the middle left deliberately empty.

Worth knowing. Upright cards do not fit standard card holders or most wallet slots.

The same upright card with a dark back and everything in cream.

Worth knowing. Upright cards do not fit standard card holders or most wallet slots.

A matt ink card with your bird in real rose-gold foil. The most expensive-feeling option here.

Worth knowing. Real rose-gold foil, applied as a separate pass after printing.

A plain card on thick cotton whose only colour is painted onto the edge, so it only shows when the cards are stacked or held.

Worth knowing. The colour is painted onto the edge of a thick cotton card, so it is a specialist job and the colour will be close rather than exact.

Your bird pressed into thick cotton with no ink at all — you feel it before you see it. Nothing is printed on the front.

Worth knowing. The bird is pressed into thick cotton with no ink at all, so it is felt as much as seen. Needs a heavy card.

Your card treated as a record: every line labelled, your two registration numbers given the same weight as everything else.

Your bird at the scale of a botanical print, cropped by three edges so the card is a piece of something larger.

Your name very large across a dark card, sitting low enough that the letters run off the bottom edge.

Your bird repeated across the whole card like a printed fabric, with a plain panel over it carrying your name.

An upright dark card with your website running up the side like the spine of a book.

Worth knowing. Upright cards do not fit standard card holders or most wallet slots.