[ubuntu-art] Business Cards

[Thorsten Wilms]

On Sun, 2009-12-27 at 07:18 +0100, Lasse Havelund wrote:
> Hey everyone,
> 
> I recently looked at the option of using the business cards, and I
> managed to derive a design from them. It can be found here:
> http://people.ubuntu.com/~lhavelund/
> 
> I was unable to find the font used. These business cards use Liberation
> Sans, which seems to work according to what the original author
> intended.
> 
> Note that the SVG files on the page uses curves, not text. It shouldn't
> be a major problem to fix that in Inkscape.

These would do, if you provide a version with editable text.

The deluxe solution would be to just ask for the name/data and generate
a matching SVG ... too bad there's no infrastructure in place to do that
online.

Oh, and I noticed that the big Circle of Friends in the background is
somehow distorted. Should be replaced with one directly imported from
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Artwork/Official?action=AttachFile&do=get&target=UbuntuCoF.svg


> The format I've used is for 85x54mm format cards, with appx. 3mm slack
> on both sides for cutting.

How is the cutting usually handled, especially for a custom shape?

In case someone does it manually, perhaps for a low volume printed at
home, shouldn't there be crop marks?

(I somehow managed to never deal with the production of business cards.)


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