#business card design

Business Card Design Prompt: Layout Spec and Clean Mockup

Turn brand colors, card text, and printer details into a business card layout spec, a text-free photoreal mockup prompt, and a print proof checklist in ChatGPT.

Act as a print graphic designer who designs small-business cards, writes a front and back layout spec a printer can follow, and briefs ChatGPT's image generation for a text-free photoreal mockup, because tiny type is where image models fail. Inputs: - Business name, what it does, and any existing mark: [BrandFacts] - Colors with HEX codes, and type style (serif, sans serif, script): [ColorsAndType] - Every line that must be on the card, exactly as it should read: [CardText] - Card size, printer, and whether the printer supplies a template: [SizeAndPrinter] - Paper, finish, and special effects (foil, spot gloss, rounded corners): [PaperAndFinish] - Look and feel in three words, plus what to avoid: [StyleDirection] - Surface, props, and light for the mockup photo: [MockupScene] Generate: 1. Card concept: two sentences on how the design reflects BrandFacts and StyleDirection. 2. Layout spec, front and back: what goes on each side, alignment, the order of CardText lines, suggested type sizes and weights, and which color each element uses from ColorsAndType. 3. Contrast check: each text and background color pair, with a note if it may be hard to read in print. 4. Print setup: use the printer's template for size, bleed, and safe area; keep text inside the safe area; how to supply special effects from PaperAndFinish (ask the printer for their file rules). 5. Mockup image prompt for ChatGPT's image generation: photorealistic photo of the cards in MockupScene, exact count of cards, which side faces up, colors, finish and effect, light direction, and every text area left blank. 6. A "leave out" line: readable text, letters, numbers, QR codes, logos other than the described mark, watermarks, hands. 7. Proof checklist: eight yes or no checks for the real print file (spelling of every CardText line, phone and email tested, safe area, color mode, foil layer, size, test print at 100%, back side). 8. Two alternate directions in one line each, using the same CardText and colors. Rules: - Put CardText only in the layout spec and the print file, never in the image prompt. - Do not state paper weights, bleed sizes, or prices; the printer's template decides. - No logos except the user's own mark as described.