Using Blue Colors in Business Cards

Blue is a wonderful color for the background of a business card. Blue is the color of peace and tranquility, yet it is sleek and professional. Below is a swatch of three Pantone colors in various tint which can be used on the background of the color business card.

The tints are, in descending order: 100, 80, 60, 40 and 20...These are all percentage tints of the particular color. Note how the color progressively turn light as the percentages of the colors drop. The top row shows the Pantone colors at their full 100% tint. This is the highest value and shows the actual color as it exists in its true form. You can expect the highest quality print from this tint value on the business card...each tint value will also printe well, but very low tint values can cause trouble in some business cards. The tint value for reverse text will be at 0%

Note: you can only assess tints or percentages of spot colors on business cards with certain software. This can't be done with programs such as Microsoft Word or Publisher. You can assess tints or percentages to the card files with any of these versions of Adobe Illustrator: 8,9,10,11,12 or any version of CorelDraw after 6.0. The new X3 version allows of transparency effects on the business cards too.

Multiple transparency effects can also be achieved on the card with using Macromedia Freehand version X. If you have your card format in MS Word, we can color convert it using the latest verions of the above mentioned software for you at now additional charge. We want your full color business card to look good and we have invested in the lastest verions of these applications to make sure that the colors look good and meet your specification on the business cards.

Contact us with the matching Pantone colors and we can input the color into your card. This way there will be no surprises when the card is acutally printed. Check out the Pantone website...the least expensive CYMK to spot process color guide is around $100.