Modern Business Card Design in Inkscape !!!

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and welcome to those episode of going scape today
can be teaching guys how to design a very cool looking modern business card Modern Business Card Design in Inkscape !!! now to get started me to open up our main panels
the ones will be using will be an object fill and stroke you also need object
align and distribute will be cycling through these very often in this
tutorial
so get started me to set up a document for a business card size
to a file document properties
now for this will be switching to changes for the wit
best prints online we're going to use
the standard business card with this

we'll be adding point to five inches for bleed purposes
will do the same for the high
now if you need in a different dimension you can always like down this drop-down
and you can slack millimeters or centimeters anything you like
once for all set their own go ahead and close out
now assume in a little bit
now all we need to do is add some guides
so we know where not to make a design so go ahead and rack for your rulers over
here
and drag a couple these guides will need for
them and since will be designed as business card with professional printing
in mine
for men to make sure that we use these guys is a safe zone
and then the rest will be simply a trim in a bleed zone
to adjust the dimensions it is let's go ahead and double-click
now have this what singers as well for the stop line
Milan R Y axis to be a two inches for this bottom one here
double click again switched inches libel month
to you
for those left one
go-ahead double click as well we want the X
to be point to five inches
and our final one on the right here
will be
inches
click OK
great now we're all set up me design a business card will just make sure that
nothing goes outside these lines
and any backgrounds and background images: need to go
to the that's completely for the bleed now let's actually get started on the
design for business card
first thing we need to do is make sure snapping is enabled
go ahead and enable snapping snap bounding boxes
sent bounding box corners snot nose pads are handles
and a snack cups know it's rectangle corners center
and also wanna make sure that we snapped to the page border
and also check that your snap guides on usually that's default but double check
now ross et let's grab our pen tool
not just quick break here you see it snaps
and I want just a slight angle in or snapping animal DoubleClick
now this'll be the split in the middle for business card
let's go to line disturb you relative to page
and let's go ahead and center on a vertical axis lectures perfect another
all sat there let's finish this up with the pen tool
just click on the existing snaps their go hand a snowball where on the business
card
and done it's got a phone stroke
give this to some sort of ill probly a dark grey for now
handled through that stroke now they're all set there
also ahead a blue accent to this sold says control de
to duplicate and now we have an extra shape and return snapping off since that
seems to be is napping times it'll save now what this color to be a bright blue
for accent their ego
masa going to use like this and I hit my and key
to bring it back adele is pretty good right there
that just make sure I didn't move it on to better align disturb you
make sure center on the horizontal axis area
now let's keep going now want to do is add some taxed
let's go to our textile and let's create our
her fellow named John Smith I have a specific font in mind
believe it's called the bold font and there it is
and this is what I'm going to be using go ahead and select the first heard the
name
I'm gonna make that completely wat I won his last name to be that blue-collar
someone go to our blue blue outline here am a copy this caller
that way when I go back to my text object then go ahead
selected last name he simply paced to rate your
area numbers shrink this town the size
alright so far so good
now he also needs a job title let's go ahead and copy in case this
let's give 'em job title: love
creative tire actor
and let's see let's make this one
white as well maybe a light grey
they re I like that better am a shrink this up
a neat trick we can do since we want the is the same way it
we can go ahead and slick this text object in Ghana and it
copy against like this job position
in slacked this I locking so it keeps the aspect ratio
we can go to Edit in paste size
paste with perfect now we know it's that
it's exactly the same with those that go ahead and select that
shift click the first one and had to align distribute so I can keep this
under
go ahead and send that out resume in just a little bit
cranked up now what I want to do is and just a little bit of an accent to out
this caller
I'm gonna go ahead and control de once again
the shape gonna fill and stroke and under Phil
I'm gonna pattern you'll see it on Mac to give me the stripes which i think are
pretty cool
i'mma do the white ones out and then we can go down to a PC
and put this is a very low numbers such as to
that's pretty subtle you can leave it out alive I'll just leave it and just
the show the things they can do something like this also going is me and
key
and then pay job to make sure that I have it the proper z-index there
all right now looks good so now I think I might
move his name just a little bit people keep it centered
doesn't have to be perfect are effect on mine even control gene a group to sign a
mess that up again
so the icons I have here actually called Thai pecans
and it's our free commercial use at icons
that I'll put a download link in the description below the video free to get
they're very nice in generic I have your iPhone for the phone number
have a letter for email have a location pen for the address
and a computer screen for the website is a great some icons there's a ton alarm
and they're very modern easy years so this will be using for this kind
miss kahn Design diverted dragged is in here they have a native SVGA format so
it's perfect for
Inkscape now I wanna do
is have a circle too in case Aldi's
gonna do is make sure that they all have
a year an actual size here make sure that there
probably twenty nearly twenty for
their account when I wanna do
is an a white stroke on the outside
struck styles to an actually think they'll be good
McCaughan and let's see if we can fit one these icons in here
to him I on key to bring that forward an area it's
let's give this one a white fill in left-center
using a line in this review right there we go
I think he'll do just fine but you know what
also wanna do is add a a little space here
to put the info on let's use this
rectangle tool here and I'm a drag just a
spot here her to see is lon mixture
Houston have a very odd thing on on there let's just reset
like they were to the stroke on color blue
now the idea that I adhere
was too seem

sense that'll be the stroke size attracted by

wanted to see if we could do something like this the line is out
in a place that behind the using the N key
do something like this I think this might be it
pretty good idea for a ok for design delivers business card
let's see maybe can also do a round the corner
yeah early like that I think she got this
just make sure min try get just a little bit for their
excellent now we're probably going to have to adjust the sizes up the is as I
enter the information
possibly a great place to start suckin to start copying and pasting
someone do that four times when I need to do
is obviously change the icons on each one I guess that will position to resize
these in the bed
go ahead and delete these phones
the richest it is a little bit in place here
publisher and is in the right order
quincy now on the location last their ego
the computer conspirator from the slot card is holding control
her holding shifting clicking hell am I gonna fill
and make them all white now let's go ahead and do the same thing to do for on
the line and to serve you
let's just keep aligning these to their circles
now for the actual information on the business card ahead a different font and
mine
to grab my text tool missus type something are a quick right this'll be
John Smith's phone number
who once try to slow this down
area and the fun ahead in mind
was called Roboto guidance like that
yeah this is a good finds very trendy and author welders I think
before I keep entering information now I think I'm gonna have to at least
groupies because
but to get very crowded in here and i wanna keep missing
my selections and all that go ahead and just like
done in control G to Groupon I so first
would see if we can position the is evenly vertically first
so do this in the online industry even hamas like

I was gonna hit this one here that should bring of light that way
as far as distribution we can go ahead and something like this
and actually looks pretty good its effects like the is
sure ok it here hi yet let's do this
summer treats luncheon as a group Nadu
relative to page well centered that way and if I need a more room I guess I can
just a
just days later unchecked that justice
so it's just consider entering its information also want to give the tax
day white fill
Austrian and I'm just being lining these as we go
horizontally alias me
in algis control do you duplicate not just keep adding is influenced you
J Todd Smith yet fake
dinner sounds good
also needed
a fake website
ago very creative Facebook site at nine
and will also need
and address still

for the bridge on live it looks like graphic lane
and fake

New York every gal
to looks like this and just wanna be a two liner
after just that later alright summer do the same thing I did before with the
line disturb you
ago had and online it to the left picture of flat out there
and then we go hand in hand align all these
to their holding I as something be different for certain that stuff not
gonna fit
that's what I'm gonna do is
stir and during some his group's by double-clicking I can grab the rectangle
tool
and it's like these all control and Rachael for
I really wanted was just a
a uniform with that I can use looks like a
should be pretty good
I'm a go-ahead and do this for all of them hit enter
here we go hadn't get this far
excellent finally
perfect right now the only one who really need to tinker around with will
be this address mine
double clicked on the group again let's grab a rectangle
and we're fighters track this down the section looks very good
side from being just a tad too long I'm wondering if I should
looks like I'll have to adjust all the tax eyes just a little bit smaller
maybe you could just do this on noses do that
I think that the better Moscow headliners very own
now we were still sad just little bit off but not too bad
think overall it's pretty good but directness and down
now that's not centered someone rallies to its election is group
relative to page an online once more alright
heard there we go I think we could us to get with this
just make sure a larger put a %ah the put a white
correcting all behind all this too so we gonna
this week to make sure that there's no transparency is scared
and gonna fill and stroke to order them
it's her perfect am's go ahead and
the Sun is back and their ego wondering if we could take a nap this text a
little bit take a little easier to read
noticing from zooming out that's a little tied
go ahead and just a light stroke on it define on it that much
there you go that's lot better
excellent okay I think this looks pretty good time ago had an export this and see
what we get
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