business cards

[biosensor]

whats the bigges size you should be on a business card?
by boss is wanting me to use a 12 point on the cards but it seems big to me or am i just crazy...
the font im using is just plain arial...

[SharkFinStudios]

12 point is a bit large for a business card, but it also depends on who your audience is. Usually 10 point is as high as I will go. You do have to take into consideration fonts and space on the card, too.

[Virgo Nightingale]

Depending on the font, I generally don't go above 9 or 10. I did a BC for an optometrist a while back and I made the type a little bigger, figuring that someone looking at the card probably has poor eyesight and wouldn't be able to read anything too small.

[emberleo]

People always think bigger is better. Let me just say if you can read it then anyone can read it. 7-9pts is optimal in my opinion.

[budafist]

We're talking just the small details right? Name, title and company name can be bigger of course.

We did a bc for Foundation of the Blind once. That was big text - to make it fit we had a folding card so we had 4 surfaces to work with.