Digital business card examples, rendered live.
Every design below is drawn on this page by the same code that puts artwork on a real signed Apple Wallet pass, with a real scannable QR. No mockups, no stock photography, and the same card throughout so you are comparing the finish rather than the person.
16 digital business card designs, every one of them rendered live on this page by the software that issues the real pass. These are not mockups: the artwork is produced by the same function that draws it onto a signed .pkpass, at the real proportions, with real scannable QR codes. 4 are on the free plan and are marked as such. The same card is shown in all 16 finishes so you are comparing the design rather than the content.
One card, 16 ways.
Same person, same details, same renderer. Only the finish changes, which is the only way to compare finishes honestly.
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White, black type. The default, and the one most people should ship: the QR has the most contrast it will ever get.
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Near-white with room for a portrait in the artwork itself. With no photo uploaded it falls back to the monogram shown here.
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Light card, one accent colour taken from you. The choice if you already have a brand and want the card to defer to it.
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Deep navy with a cool highlight across the top. Formal without going to black.
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A brushed grey mesh, low chroma. The neutral option for when a colour would be a claim you do not want to make.
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Warm ivory with a soft radial glow, and the mark pressed into the surface rather than sitting on it.
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Pale green, dark type. Light enough that the monogram disc inverts to stay legible against it.
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Dark brown ground with a warm directional sheen. Reads as metal rather than as a colour.
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A machined guilloche on pale grey, the pattern used on banknote borders. Thousands of real paths, not a texture image.
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Near-black with a gold-leaning foil for the type. The highest contrast finish in the set.
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Deep indigo with cool light bleeding through it. Dark enough to keep the QR clean.
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Deep desaturated red. Formal without being navy, which most of the rest of this set is.
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Deep violet through to slate. The softest of the dark finishes.
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Fine engraved linework over near-black, in the register of a printed share certificate.
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Cream with an engraved plate pattern and dark navy type. The lightest of the engraved finishes.
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Two colours you pick, and the whole field is built from them. The only preset with no fixed appearance; shown here on its default blue.
Pick a dark one and stop thinking about it.
This is the decision people spend the longest on and it changes the outcome the least. The scene this card is used in is a loud room, poor light, and somebody who is already half turned towards the next conversation. A dark card with a light QR code gives their camera the easiest possible job, which is the only design property on this page that measurably affects whether the handover works. Everything else is for you, and that is a perfectly good reason to care about it — just not for very long.
You can change this after you have handed it out.
Which is the strongest argument for not agonising over the choice above.
A printed card commits you to a design for as long as the box lasts. A Cardr does not. Change the finish, change your job title, change your phone number, and every copy already sitting in somebody else’s Apple Wallet redraws itself on their phone. You do not have to contact anybody, and there is nothing to reissue.
So the sensible order is: take Classic, hand the card out this afternoon, and change the design next week if you still want to. The cards you have already given away will change with it.
Where to go next.
Seven steps, about a minute, nothing to install.
Free The 4 free designsWhat the free plan includes, and where the others cap theirs.
Apple Wallet How the pass worksWhy the artwork above ends up on a signed .pkpass.
Pricing All 16 on ProFrom £9 a month, sixty days to change your mind.
Designs, answered.
Are these real, or mockups?
Real. Each card above is drawn by the same function that renders the artwork onto an issued Apple Wallet pass, running on this page as you load it. The QR codes are produced by the same encoder the product uses and are genuinely scannable. Nothing here is a photograph, a render or an illustration of the product.
Which digital business card design should I pick?
A dark one, unless you have a reason not to. Most of these get scanned in a badly lit room by somebody holding a drink, and a dark card with a light QR gives the camera the easiest job. Past that it barely matters: the design is the decision people spend longest on and the one that changes the outcome least.
How many designs are free?
4 of the 16, and they are marked above. The free ones are not watermarked or degraded versions of the paid ones — Classic in particular is the one we would tell most people to ship.
Can I use my own colours?
Two ways. Brand Colour takes a single colour from you and builds the card around it, and Custom Gradient takes two and builds the whole field from them. Brand Colour is on the free plan; Custom Gradient is on Pro.
Can I put my photo on the card?
Yes. The Signature finish composites a soft-edged portrait into the artwork itself, and every design can carry a photo in the thumbnail slot beside your details. If you add no photo, the card falls back to a monogram drawn from your initials.
Can I change the design after I have handed cards out?
Yes, and this is one of the better arguments for not agonising over it now. Change the design and every copy already saved in somebody else’s Apple Wallet redraws itself on their phone. Nobody has to be told, and nothing has to be reissued.
Put your own name on one of these.
Free forever, 4 designs on the free plan, and you can change the finish any time without reissuing anything.