Brand Consistency
Template creation is seamless with Brandly. Our app converts uploaded business card PDFs into editable online templates, extracting fonts, colors, and images. Admins can lock fields while allowing team members to personalize others, ensuring brand consistency and simplifying ordering.
branding 101
Why we start with your file
A business card is vital for brand identity, leaving a lasting first impression while reinforcing professionalism through logos, colors, and fonts. It provides essential contact details, facilitating follow-ups, and its design quality reflects the brand’s standards. Well-made cards help businesses stand out in competitive settings
The basics
Names, titles, contact info
The Brandly app identifies names, titles, and contact info from live text fields within uploaded PDF templates. It reads these text fields as editable content, allowing users to modify information like names, phone numbers, and job titles while maintaining design integrity. This process ensures the templates remain flexible for employee customization without altering non-editable elements such as logos or taglines. Admins can also predefine which sections are editable to streamline the ordering process and ensure consistent branding across teams.
Flexible customization
Add lines while maintaining brand consistency
Admins on the Brandly platform can add lines for roles, contact details, or social media while maintaining design alignment. Adjusting font sizes and leading keeps templates appealing and organized. This flexibility supports customization for evolving business needs, balancing functionality and brand consistency to ensure each template aligns with brand standards and reflects a professional image.
Brand consistency
Logos, taglines, and static text
Leaving logos, taglines, and text as outlines in the Brandly app is essential for maintaining design consistency and brand integrity. Outlined text prevents unintended font substitutions and alignment issues, ensuring designs appear as intended across devices and printers. While bitmap images cannot be outlined, vector graphics benefit from outlining, which safeguards brand standards when files are shared or printed. This approach reduces compatibility issues, providing a smoother workflow for handling Brandly assets.
Backside printing
Elevate your design
Make the most of the backside of your Brandly business cards with full-bleed designs, allowing for edge-to-edge color that maximizes visual impact. This space is perfect for your company logo, reinforcing brand recognition at a glance. You can also include additional information, such as a tagline or QR code, without cluttering the front. Custom colors and design elements ensure the backside complements your overall brand aesthetic, offering a seamless, professional look. With high-quality printing, every detail on the backside stands out, leaving a memorable impression on clients and colleagues alike.
Other content
QR codes, custom fonts, icons
Enhance templates in Brandly by adding QR codes for quick access to digital content, integrate corporate fonts to reinforce brand identity, and include custom label icons (e.g., phone or email) for better clarity and professionalism. These features ensure tailored, on-brand business cards that meet both individual and corporate needs across various teams
Order by invitation
Access pre-approved templates
To invite team members to order on Brandly, admins can use the platform's dashboard. Through the "Teams" tab, they send invitations, allowing employees to access pre-approved templates, customize their cards, and place orders independently. This self-ordering option streamlines the process, ensuring fast, on-brand card creation. Admins can also manage permissions and apply approval workflows for added control, ensuring that all orders align with brand standards before printing and delivery
Artwork
5 Tips for print perfection
Brandly stands out by offering a fast, easy way to print business cards for entire teams. It converts uploaded PDF files into editable templates, enabling companies to share and self-order cards through the platform. Using PDFs ensures smooth customization and consistent branding across all employee orders.
1. PDF files
Save files as PDFs to reliably preserve fonts, colors, and layouts, ensuring consistent, professional templates
2. Card size
The standard business card size is 3.5 x 2 inches, with an additional 1/8-inch bleed for designs extending to the edges
3. Live text
Leave editable text "live" (not outlined) so our software can read the fonts and enable easy customization
4. Remove crop marks
Remove crop marks—our software will generate them to ensure precise cutting and alignment
5. CMYK colors
Prepare files in CMYK mode to ensure accurate color reproduction and optimal print quality
Text Fields
Live vs Outlined text
Brandly converts uploaded PDF files into editable and sharable online templates that perfectly match your brand's identity. Our app reads in your file's font information (as text) so you can upload your design once and use it many times.
Editable fields
Prepare your file so that the fields you want to edit for each employee (e.g. name, title, phone, email) are live text. Live text is simply text that is not converted to outlines in Adobe Illustrator. Additionally, consider using text that is 8pt or higher for better results.
Non-editable fields
Business cards usually have content that won’t be customized for each employee. Logos, taglines, web addresses, & license numbers are examples of static text. To make sure this content is not mistakenly edited, convert them to outlines in Adobe Illustrator before uploading. To learn how to transform text to outlines, watch this video.
Graphics
Using bitmaps and vectors
Brandly converts your uploaded PDF file into an editable and sharable template - ready to be ordered by or for everyone on your team. Since the main benefit of using Brandly is to make it fast and easy to order "on-brand" prints, it's crucial to ensure that your file is prepared correctly.
Logos
Many logos are created from geometric shapes and letterforms. Some are solid color, others use gradations or knockouts - for example, reversing type out of a shape. It is advisable to source the original vector file for the best results.
Lines
If your design has lines - for example, a horizontal or vertical rule - or stroked shapes, aim to keep them at 0.5pt or thicker for the best results.
Images
Images can depict anything, from a simple geometric shape to a full-color photographic image, but with one caveat: You must have enough pixels available to render a high-quality image. Shoot for 150 to 300 DPI at actual size.
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