Trading Card Maker
Design your own original cards with artwork, a title, stats you name yourself, rules text and a matching back, then print nine to a sheet. Cards are laid out in inches or millimetres, so a standard 2.5 x 3.5 in card with 0.125 in of bleed downloads as an 825 x 1125 px PNG at 300 DPI. Rules text that would cross the safe margin is outlined and flagged before export, never shrunk to fit, and the sheet PDF mirrors the backs for a long-edge or short-edge flip, so every back lands behind its own front when you print double-sided. Import a CSV to fill a whole deck, match pictures to cards by file name, and save a project file that reopens with every stat label and artwork position as you left it. These are original fan and game cards: no named game's frames, logos or symbols are included, and your pictures stay in your browser.
Ember Fox. Plains, Trickster. Speed: 4. Guard: 2. Wits: 3. Ember Fox moves before every other card this round. When it wins a contest, draw a card, then put one card from your hand at the bottom of your deck. While you have three or more cards in play, it gains +1 Speed, and each other player discards a card at the end of the round. Quick paws, warm heart.
sheet 1, fronts 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9
Cards made here are your own original designs, for fan projects, homemade games and classrooms: no named game's frames, logos or symbols are included. Drag the artwork on the card to move it, or use the sliders; with the card focused, arrow keys move it and plus and minus zoom. The dimmed edge is the bleed, cut away after printing; words stay inside the dotted safe line.
Cards, 9 of up to 200
Many cards at once
The CSV's first row names the columns: title, tags, rules, quote, back, art and color, and any other column becomes a stat labelled with its name (up to 4). Importing replaces the cards and keeps the size, sheet and back. Add pictures by name puts each picture on every card whose art column names that file.
Edit card 3, example text
Artwork
No picture: the artwork window prints as a light tint of the card colour.
Card size, layout, sheet and back
Bleed 0.125 in a side makes the PNG 2.75 x 3.75 in, 825 x 1125 px at 300 DPI. Text stays 0.125 in inside the trim, in 2.25 in x 3.25 in. Rules text is 9 pt on 11.25 pt lines.
Layout
Print sheet
3 x 3, 9 cards a sheet at trim size, touching, so one cut serves two cards; margins 0.5 in at the sides and 0.25 in top and bottom, crop marks in the margin. Each sheet of fronts is followed by its backs, long-edge flip, each row of backs mirrored left to right. Print double-sided with the same flip, at 100%.
Back
Every card shares this back. A card's own back text prints on its back only.
The PNG is the selected card's front or back at 825 x 1125 px, bleed included, marked 300 DPI. Sheet .pdf lays the cards out at trim size for home printing. Print-shop .pdf puts one card a page at 2.75 x 3.75 in with its bleed. Both PDFs hold each face as a 300 DPI JPEG image. The project file keeps every card, label, position and picture, so it opens here again as it was.
Common questions
- How do I make my own trading card?
- Pick a card in the list and type its title, tags line, stat values, rules text and quote in the fields beside it, then choose a picture and drag it on the card, or use the scale and position sliders, to frame it. Name your stats under Card size, layout, sheet and back, where you also set the card size, one of three original templates, a typeface and the back. The page opens with nine example cards marked as examples; replace their words, or press Start an empty deck. Download the selected card as a PNG, or the whole deck as a sheet PDF or a print-shop PDF.
- What size is a trading card, and what resolution should the image be?
- The standard size is 2.5 x 3.5 in (63.5 x 88.9 mm). At 300 DPI that is 750 x 1050 px, and with 0.125 in of bleed on every side the PNG this tool makes is 825 x 1125 px. It also has bridge (2.25 x 3.5 in), mini (1.75 x 2.5 in) and tarot (2.75 x 4.75 in) sizes, or a custom size from 1.5 to 10 in a side in inches or millimetres. Once a card has a picture, its Artwork section shows how many picture pixels land on each printed inch.
- How do I print trading cards double-sided so the backs line up?
- Sheet .pdf puts each sheet of fronts on one page and its backs on the next, unless you choose Fronts only. Standard cards go 3 x 3 on US Letter at trim size, touching so one cut separates two cards, with margins of 0.5 in at the sides and 0.25 in at the top and bottom and crop marks in the margin. For a long-edge flip each row of backs is mirrored, so the first row reads 3 2 1 and card 3's back prints behind card 3; for a short-edge flip the rows are swapped instead. Print at 100% with the same flip set in your printer. A home printer's duplex alignment can still move the backs by a millimetre or two, which the tool cannot measure.
- What are bleed and the safe margin?
- Bleed is colour and artwork carried past the cut line, 0.125 in a side by default, so a cut that lands slightly off leaves no white edge; it is in the PNG and the print-shop PDF. The safe margin keeps words 0.125 in inside the cut, and the card preview dims the bleed and draws both lines. On a standard card the rules box is 2.25 x 0.625 in and holds four lines of 9 pt text on 11.25 pt lines. Text that needs more lines, or a title too wide for one line, is outlined in red on the card, listed under the card's fields, and export asks you to fix it or press Export anyway: lines past the box, or the end of a title too wide for the card, are not printed, and the text is never made smaller.
- Can I make a whole deck from a spreadsheet?
- Yes. Import CSV reads a file whose first row names the columns: title, tags, rules, quote, back, art and color, and any other column becomes a stat labelled with its header, up to four. Each row after that is one card, up to 200. When the art column names a picture file, Add pictures by name puts each picture you choose on every card that names it. CSV template downloads a two-card example with every column.
- Can I use logos or card frames from real card games?
- The three templates are original and generic: no named game's frames, logos, symbols, set marks or card text are included, and nothing here claims to be official or compatible with any game. Whatever pictures you add are your own choice; the tool does not look at what a picture shows. It is made for original fan cards, homemade games and classroom projects.
- Are my pictures uploaded anywhere?
- No. Each picture is read in this browser tab: its declared size is checked first, then it is saved again at up to 2400 px on its longest side, which also drops camera metadata. The browser remembers your deck's words and settings between visits, but never the pictures. They leave the tab only inside a PNG, a PDF or a project file you download.
- Can I save my cards and edit them later?
- Project .json saves every card, the stat labels, the layout, the back, each picture and each picture's position in one file. Open project loads it here again as you left it, including the artwork positions. Without a project file, the deck's words and settings come back on your next visit, and Add pictures by name puts the pictures back on the cards they came from.
An original, generic card layout: no named game's logos, frames, symbols or card text are included, and nothing here claims to be official, endorsed or compatible with any game. Sizes are exact at the settings shown (2.5 x 3.5 in at 300 DPI is 750 x 1050 px before bleed), text that would cross the safe margin is flagged rather than squeezed, and your artwork stays in your browser. A home printer's scaling and duplex alignment can still shift a sheet by a millimetre or two, which this cannot measure.