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print/ — stationery templates

Business card (double-sided), A4 + US Letter letterhead, and an A4 invoice. Millimetre-exact SVG plus a print-ready HTML sheet.

Start with PRINT-SPECS.md — it carries the trim/bleed geometry, the CMYK and Pantone table, the production minimums, and the two colour decisions that need making.

Quick facts

  • All SVG user units are millimetres. Files open at true size with no scaling step.
  • Card 85 × 55 mm trim, 91 × 61 mm with 3 mm bleed, 4 mm safe.
  • A4 210 × 297, bleed doc 216 × 303, 20 mm margins.
  • Guides live in <g id="guides"> in the *-guides.svg files — delete before press.
  • print.html prints the card 2-up plus both sheets. Print at 100 %, never “fit to page”.

The two decisions

  1. Card front colour. The brief’s #0F172A has no usable Pantone match (nearest 289 C, ΔE 5.8). Brand Deepwater #08222E matches 5395 C at ΔE 1.7. Both files are supplied; Deepwater is recommended for print.
  2. Gradients on a two-ink job. Pulse mint has no spot and is out of CMYK gamut, so the accent strip and letterhead rule become a tint ramp of Spot 2 rather than a hue shift.

Before anything goes to a printer

These are RGB layout masters. SVG has no CMYK. Re-apply colour as CMYK or spot swatches in Illustrator/InDesign, outline the live text, and export PDF/X-4 with the bleed box. Details in PRINT-SPECS.md §1.