Engine Turn: a silver guilloche business card template.
Engine Turn is a silver guilloche business card template: pale steel cut with dark machined lines, like the lathe pattern on a watch dial, with a rosette on the right and your name in dark type on the left. The pattern is computed from your name, so it is yours alone. It is on Pro.
Pro design · Starts free in Oxford · Switch to Engine Turn on Pro
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What it is made of.
A cool gray surface from #e4e7ec to #8e95a1 with a brushed sheen, cut with hundreds of fine dark lines (rgb 38, 44, 56) that sweep across the whole band and gather into a rosette on the right. The lines are darker than the metal around them, which is how real engine turning looks: incised, not printed. The name is in Helvetica Neue, near-black, with a short rule beneath and a small serial in the corner.
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- Plan
- Pro ($15 a month or $12 a month billed annually, with 7 days free)
- Wallet layout
- Artwork band (store card): your name is drawn into the art
- Name set in
- Helvetica Neue (sans-serif)
- Colors
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#e4e7ec #bcc2cc #8e95a1 #262c38 #e6e9ee #8b929e - Pass colors
- Text
#1a1e26on#e2e5ea - From your name
- Yes: the engraving and its serial are computed from your name
Who should wear Engine Turn.
Engineers, product people, watch and car enthusiasts, finance: anyone who likes precision for its own sake. It is the most technical-looking design in the set. If you want the engraving with more warmth, Sovereign is the same technique on cream.
How it reads in a dim room.
Dark type on light gray reads strongly, past 7:1. The gray ground is darker than the white designs, so it glows less in a dim room, though it is still a light card: if you mostly meet people in bars or at evening events, a dark design keeps the screen calmer.
13.2:1text contrast · 7:1 is the bar
Measured from the pass's own colors, by the WCAG contrast formula. 21:1 is black on white; the line marks 7:1, the bar for small text. This is a light card.
Top to bottom, on the pass.
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- Name, in the art
- Role and company
- QR, opens your page
- Links, on the back
- Your name, in the artworkDrawn into the band across the top of the pass. A long name shrinks, then wraps, rather than being cut off.
- Your role and companyOne row under the band, in Apple's system font.
- Your phone numberTappable on your own phone.
- The QR codeOn the white plate Wallet draws at the bottom. It opens your page at cardr.co/yourname.
- The back of the passYour page link and every link you added.
Unlike Intaglio and Sovereign, the turned lines run across the whole band, behind the name as well; the surname is set in bold near-black so it stays clear of them.
Start free, wear Engine Turn on Pro.
Your card is made in Oxford first. Start Pro ($15 a month or $12 a month billed annually, with 7 days free) and switch to Engine Turn in your card's editor. What Pro includes.
Engine Turn, answered.
What is guilloche?
A pattern of interlaced curves cut by a machine called a rose engine, used on watch dials, banknotes and certificates because it is hard to copy by hand. Engine Turn draws the same mathematics as vector lines.
Will two people on Engine Turn have the same pattern?
No. The pattern is seeded from the name on the card, and the serial in the corner shows the seed.
Is Engine Turn a metal card?
It is a Wallet pass design. Cardr Metal is the physical engraved card, sold separately in the UK.
How do I get Engine Turn on my card?
Make your card free (it starts in Oxford), then start Pro and pick Engine Turn in your card's editor. Pro is $15 a month or $12 a month billed annually, with 7 days free. Your pass redraws itself in Wallet.
Start your card free today.
Free in Oxford today, and Engine Turn whenever you start Pro. Your details change any time without reissuing anything.