20 Minimal Business Cards (With Simple Modern Design Ideas) for 2019

Contemporary business cards tend towards clean lines and simple designs that harken back to a modernist aesthetic, but this type of design can be a challenge to do well. That’s why we’ve created this list of over 20 simple clean business card designs that you can create quickly and easily using minimalist business card templates from Placeit.

Placeit is an online business card maker that's cost-effective and easy to use. We’ll show you how to use it later in this article, but first let’s take a look at how to go about creating great modern business cards.

How to Make a Simple Business Card Design

Whether you’re a solopreneur or a small startup, these steps will help you understand the steps you need to take to make your own modern business cards. Later we’ll show you how to execute them using the Business Card Maker at Placeit.

1. Choose Your Card Shape and Size

Though modern business cards can come in various shapes like circles, ovals, squares, and customised shapes, they're usually rectangles with either a landscape or a portrait orientation, and their standard size can vary ever so slightly, depending on the part of the world you’re living in. The thing to remember, though, is that the shape, size and consequently the layout you use should always match your company's brand message.

2. Add Your Logo and/or Other Graphics

You really should have a logo before you even start the process of creating a business card, but if you don’t, the tutorialHow to Make Your Own Logo Designwill help you get started.

3. Add Essential Text

You need to add information that allows business prospects to get in touch with you. Most people include basics like their name, the name and address of their company, telephone numbers, e-mail address, website, and sometimes the company’s tagline.

4. Add Brand Colours and Typography

The colours and typography you use in your simple business cards should reflect your company’s brand colour scheme and typography guidelines to create a unified identity with your company and its other promotional materials.

5. Finalise Your Design

Once you’ve completed your simple business card design, evaluate your work to make sure that everything works well together, the text is legible, and the spelling is all correct.

Inspiration: 22 Best Minimalist Business Cards (Simple Modern Design Ideas)

Here are 22 modern and simple business card ideas for designing simple modern business cards:

1.Motherboard Business Card Template for Web Developers

If you’re a web developer looking to make a strong impression with your clients, you can’t go wrong with this clean business card design. You can change the colours as needed to suit your brand and even upload your logo and add it to the modern business card design.

2.Business Card Design Template with Law Graphics

Keep things simple with this modern business card design created specifically for those working in the legal industry. To make it fully your own, just add your business details and you’re done—or customise the template further by changing colours, graphics, fonts, etc.

3.Party Planner Business Card Maker

As a party planner, you want your business card to communicate just how fun you make the events you plan. This contemporary business card with its bronze glitter background and bronze tinged text will work a treat. You can change the diamond shape framing the text to a circle, rectangle, or any number of custom shapes provided.

4.Business Card Maker for Accountants

Here’s some minimal business card inspiration for accountants, with loads of customisation possibilities. Add your own name and business contact details, then upload your logo and customise it as much as you want.

5.Physiotherapist Business Card Template

This is another contemporary business card, but this time for those in the healing professions, like physiotherapists. The template features a soft neutral background and an understated wine-coloured font. Use as is or modify as needed.

6.Business Card Maker for Systems Architect

Systems architects will love this simple business card design featuring technology-inspired graphics embedded in the background and combined with bright colours and clean sans-serif fonts.

7.Business Card Maker for Film Studio Business Cards

A modern business card design for those in film, this template features a solid black background and provides a number of great film-themed graphics and accents like a director’s chair, film reels, lights, clapperboard, and more. This is a charming and simple business card that can be customised extensively to create just the card you want.

8.Business Card Template With Coffee Bean Graphics

A minimal business card design for coffee shops, this template places the business name in bold lettering down the left side of the card and business contact details on the right lower part of the card. Optionally, you can upload your logo and add it to the card or use one of the coffee-inspired graphics provided.

9.Gardening and Landscaping Business Card Template

If you’re looking for simple business cards for gardening or landscaping businesses, this minimal business card design might be a good choice. Change the top graphic to one of the many gardening related graphics on offer, or add your own logo, modify the colours to match your brand, and your card is ready for the printers.

10.Hair Stylist Business Card Maker

Beauty businesses will be happy with this stylish, but simple, business card that can be customised in a myriad of ways to suit different tastes. Add your business information and preferred colour scheme, change the frame to one you prefer, and you’re done.

11.Business Card Maker for Financial Analysts

Here’s some minimal business card inspiration for financial analysts. The template comes with a number of interesting watermarks that add subtle textures to the background of your card. Add your details and your logo, and your card is ready to go.

12.Boutique Business Card Maker

Looking for simple business card design ideas for a clothing brand? Look no further than this gorgeous modern business card design. The template features a floral theme and provides stylish watermark graphics for your card background. What’s more, you can upload your own watermark ideas if you so desire.

13.Clinical Psychologist Business Card Maker

Mental health practitioners looking for simple business cards will be pleased with this eye-catching modern business card design. Add your logo and title to the top left of the card and your name and contact details inside the banner section on the right, then customise the colours and font as desired.

14.Business Card Maker for Florist with Floral Background

And speaking of floral themes, florists interested in clean business card designs for their business should check out this terrific contemporary business card template featuring a beautiful floral background and frame overlay. Make the template your own by swapping out the overlay for one of the other great ones provided and changing the colours to match your brand.

15.Plumbing Services Business Card Generator

Another minimal business card design, this time for plumbers, this template is simplicity at its best. In this example, the template shows a graphic of a broken pipe, the name of the plumber and what he does and his contact number, all against a bright red background. But the customisation features allow you to change the background colour, add an additional text field for a business address or email address, and swap out the graphic for any of the other great plumbing-related options provided.

16.Minimalist Business Card Template

The minimalist business card template is designed specifically for architects, but don’t let that stop you from repurposing it for your own industry. This incredibly flexible template can be customised in myriad ways. Check it out and you’ll see what I mean.

17.Business Card Template for Plumbing and Gas Services

This template offers more great minimal business card inspiration for plumbers with its bright punchy colours and terrific graphics. Just add your details and you’ve got a great card ready for use, or you can customise to your heart’s content.

18.Business Card Maker for Audiovisual Artists

As an artist specialising in audiovisuals, you want your business card to be as distinct as your work, so here’s a simple clean business card design idea that won’t disappoint. Just add your name, title and contact details, select a graphic that best represents what you do or upload your own, and you’re done.

19.Online Business Card Maker for Tattoo Studio

Need some simple business card design ideas for a tattoo studio? Look no further than this terrific minimal business card design.

20.Stylish Wedding Planner Business Card Maker

If you're a wedding and/or event planner, well-designed elegant business cards are critical to your business. We’ve included this simple clean business card design just for you. Try this wonderful card by adding your own details, uploading your own logo or using one of the graphics provided, and selecting appropriate fonts and colours for your brand.

21.Personal Trainer Business Card Template with Illustrations

A simple, clean business card design for personal trainers, this template offers loads of customisation features with graphics for any number of sports including weight training, yoga, swimming, rock climbing, etc.

22.Business Card Maker for Financial Services

Looking for the best minimalist business cards for the financial services industry? Check out this template with its bright geometric background and clean fonts. Customise by adding your own information, change fonts, upload your company logo and colours, and you’re done.

5 Quick Tips: Make the Best Minimal Business Cards (Online)

Once you’ve decided on the right business card for your company, you’ll need to customise it to make it your own. Here are five quick tips for personalising minimalist business card templates using the Placeit business card maker.

1. Add Your Business Details and Select a Font

Starting with the controls on the left, add your business details and select a font style to match your brand.

2. Upload Your Logo

Moving to the controls on the right, you can upload your logo, or if you won’t be using a logo on your card, select a graphic from those offered that best represents your brand.

Next, choose the type of banner you want to use in your modern business card design.

3. Select Colours That Match Your Brand

Using the controls on both the left and the right, you can change the colour of the business card background, as well as the colour of the fonts and other aspects of the business card design, to match your brand.

4. Resize and Adjust the Elements in Your Design as Needed

If you’re not happy with the changes you’ve made, move the elements around to see what works best. Or you canreset your layout to return the design to its original layout.

5. Download Your New Business Card and Send It Off to the Printers

You can learn more about creating a business card in our tutorial,10 Quick Tips: How to Design Good Business Cards.

More Minimal Business Card Inspiration

If you know your way around Adobe Photoshop and/or Illustrator, Envato Elements is another great site for simple business card design ideas.

These unique business cards come in EPS, AI and PSD file formats, and once you've downloaded a template, you can easily adapt your template to a wide range of business purposes. Just replace the text placeholders with your own text, adjust colours, and you've got a terrific business card ready to print.

What's more, youcan download as many modern business cards as you want for one low monthly price. Here are just three terrific business card template choices from Elements to get you started.

Create Simple Business Cards Today

That’s it for our list of the best minimalist business cards from Placeit and Envato Elements. These are just a small selection of hundreds of business card designs that are available, so if you haven’t found one here that quite fits your needs, there are plenty of other great options to choose from. Check them out and let us know in the comments below if you’ve found the perfect simple business card for your company and which one it is. We’d love to hear from you.