The Cutle blog
Practical guides to designing and printing ID cards.
A student card has to be readable at a glance, survive a few years in a wallet and cost almost nothing to replace. This guide covers the information hierarchy, layout, colour and printing choices that survive those constraints.
Light, background, framing and crop ratios that produce usable card photos with an ordinary phone, the resolution you actually need for print, and the seven mistakes that ruin most of them.
Printing and laminating, a PVC card printer, a card bureau or the print shop on the high street: what each one costs you in durability, consistency, lead time and control over personal data.
