Business card layout generator

Choose a standard card size and orientation, set an optional safe margin, and receive deterministic regions for the name, title, company, email, phone, website, and address. Every returned coordinate is measured in millimetres, while type sizes are provided in points, making the result useful for document generators, design scripts, print templates, and repeatable brand workflows.

Start with the finished card and its safe area

A business card layout begins with the physical object, not a screen canvas. Select the US, ISO, or Japanese standard and choose landscape or portrait orientation. The generator reports the finished width and height in millimetres, then subtracts the requested inner margin to establish a safe area. That inset is where every text region is placed. It is not a printer bleed or crop allowance; those production values belong outside the finished dimensions and should be added by the document system that consumes the result. Keeping that distinction clear prevents text from drifting too close to a trimmed edge. The default four-millimetre margin is a conservative starting point for common cards, while the supported range lets a template owner adjust visual density. Because all positions use the same top-left origin and unit, the output can be transferred directly to SVG, canvas, PDF, or desktop-publishing coordinates with one deliberate unit conversion.

Understand how identity and contact regions are assigned

The safe area is divided into an identity section and a contact section. The identity section always starts with the required name, followed by the title and company when those values are present. Empty optional fields are omitted, so they do not leave mysterious blank rows in the result. The remaining contact section is shared by email, phone, website, and address in that stable order. Each region contains an identifier, semantic role, normalized text, position, dimensions, font size, line allowance, and alignment. This is a layout specification rather than a rendered design: it gives a downstream renderer reliable boxes while leaving font family, weight, colour, decorative rules, logos, and background treatment to the brand system. Landscape cards reserve slightly more vertical emphasis for identity, while portrait cards balance the sections for their taller composition. Identical input always produces identical geometry, which makes the capability suitable for tests, batch generation, and version-controlled templates.

Apply the result in a print or digital workflow

Use the returned card object to create the artboard and the safe_area object to draw optional layout guides during development. For every entry in regions, place the supplied text at x_mm and y_mm inside the stated width and height. Treat font_size_pt as a practical fitted recommendation: the calculation considers text length, available width, region height, and the permitted line count. A long address may use two lines, while compact identity and contact values stay on one line. Your renderer should still use its own font metrics because real typefaces differ in character width, and it may reduce the suggested size if a chosen family is unusually wide. Do not enlarge text beyond the recommendation without checking overflow. Add bleed, crop marks, colour profiles, and printer-specific tolerances after laying out the finished card. For digital previews, preserve the physical aspect ratio so approval images match the eventual print composition instead of stretching to an arbitrary viewport.