By • 2:30 pm, October 25, 2017 • • Business cards refuse to go away. Photo: Today, almost everyone carries a smartphone, and that’s where we keep our contacts lists. And yet we still exchange business cards. They’re easy to use, they don’t require you to mess withAirDrop, or any other convoluted way to share, and — perhaps most important — they’re customary.

Free Business Card Software - Easy to Design Business Card from Templates in Minutes Introduction to Business Card Business cards are cards bearing business information about a company or individual.

We’re used to handing over our details on card. So today we’re going to see how to make and print a business card in Pages, for Mac or iOS. The good news is, it’s super easy. The bad news? Think of the trees. Do we really still need business cards?

The answer to this comes from the Mobile World Congress, the yearly trade show in Barcelona where the the newest mobile tech is hawked. There’s always a new startup there trying to replace the business card with some kind of clunky app-based “solution,” but the whole show runs on paper cards. But when I tried to go card-free one year, every time I had to exchange contact details I had to explain myself, all while scrawling my email address onto scraps of paper.

Worse, if you don’t have a card, PR folks assume that you’re not legit. An official-looking card “proves” that you work for whoever you say you work for. And a card is pretty much mandatory to get into press events. How to design a business card in Pages Pages has several business card templates built in.

These are better than starting from scratch, because they’ve already taken care of the layout of multiple cards on a page, which is the most annoying part of printing business cards from a word-processor app (fancier publishing apps like InDesign have tools to make this easier). To design a card, we will choose one of these templates, redesign one of the cards to our liking, and then copy and paste that new design across the entire page.

There’s no way to automate the last step, but we can make it less painful. One final note before we begin: The screenshots here show Pages on an iPad, but the process works exactly the same on the Mac. Pick a template Pick one of these fine templates to get you started. Photo: Pages business card templates Open up Pages and tap the little + icon, then scroll down to check out the templates. I picked the Classic Business Cards template because it is the simplest, and therefore easy to customize.

Switch on guides Make sure all of these are on. Photo: Cult of Mac Next, we switch on Pages’ smart guides. These are lines which appear whenever you drag an object, in order to make it easier to line things up.

To switch on the smart guides, tap the at the top right of the window to access Pages’ settings, and toggle the switches for Center Guides, Spacing Guides, and Edge Guides. Exit settings by tapping the again. Edit your business card You only need to edit the first card in the template. Photo: Cult of Mac Now we start on the design. First, you should replace the sample text with your own contact details.

Just tap or click into the existing text fields and change the information. Do this by double-tapping on the text to make it editable. Type in your own details for the name, job title, and contact information fields (these fields may vary if you chose a different template). Next, we’ll change the typefaces. I like Helvetica, so I’ll change my card to use that.

I’ll also make the name bold so it stands out. To access these text tools, tap the little paintbrush icon in the toolbar, and then tap the Text label at the top of the sidebar. You’ll be familiar with these tools. Change the fonts This is where you pick your typeface.

Photo: Cult of Mac To change the fonts, font sizes, and other attributes, just tap on the text in the main window, and then make the changes in the sidebar. One thing to note here is that these business card templates are. That is, the text is contained in boxes, instead of being allowed to roam free across the page. Boxes can be grouped together, and if you’re using the same Classic template as me, then you’ll notice that the name and job title boxes are already grouped, because when you tap on ones they both get selected. If you want to apply different styles to each of these fields, you can just double tap each one to select it individually.