Business Card Size

There is no single worldwide business card size: North America uses 3.5 × 2 inches, most of Europe 85 × 55 mm, Japan 91 × 55 mm and Korea 90 × 50 mm. This tool gives the trim size for each standard, adds the bleed your printer asks for, marks the safe area for text, and converts everything to the pixel size to set up in Photoshop, Illustrator or Canva.

How to use this tool

1. Choose your country's standard and the orientation.
2. Pick inches or millimetres, then enter the bleed and safe margin from your printer's spec sheet.
3. Set the resolution — 300 DPI is standard for print.
4. Create your file at the "with bleed" size and keep important content inside the safe area.

Formula

with bleed = trim + 2 × bleed · safe area = trim − 2 × margin · pixels = round(mm ÷ 25.4 × DPI)

Bleed is the extra image beyond the cut line, so slight cutting shifts never leave a white edge. The safe margin keeps text away from the cut.

Example

A US card is 3.5 × 2 in. With a 0.125 in bleed on each side the file is 3.75 × 2.25 in, which at 300 DPI is 1125 × 675 pixels (the trimmed card is 1050 × 600). A Korean card is 90 × 50 mm; with the common 1 mm bleed the working size is 92 × 52 mm.