How to Customise a Business Card Template in Adobe InDesign

In this Quick Tip, we’ll look at how you can transform a minimal business card template, creating something that’s more unique and individual.

You don’t need to put in a huge amount of work to give your cards character; read on to discover three super-simple ways to give your design a cool makeover.

Minimal business cards don’t need to be dull—we’ve looked at three easy-peasy ways to give your cards added character and a unique look without adding too much embellishment or fuss. When you come to edit a minimal template, you can now try to:

• brighten the design with a bold color combination…
• …or enliven your layout with a photo background
• align text centrally on the front of the card and, on the reverse, pull in text towards the center by flushing right and left, to make the card appear more formal
• personalise your card with a handwritten name, set in either your own handwriting or in a script font