Place Card Template

A place card has one job: to tell someone where to sit, from a step away, in a room where everyone is talking. So the name is the biggest thing on the card, set in Newsreader italic at 20 points, and nothing competes with it but a small sprig or a rule above it and, if you want one, a short line under it for the occasion.

Paste your guest list, one name per line, and the customizer makes a card for each name, six to a sheet. Eight guests is two sheets; a hundred and twenty is twenty. The spare places on the last sheet print with the ornament and no name, so the cousin nobody told you about still gets a card that matches the others, in your own handwriting.

Each card is a tent. The lower half is the front. The upper half is the back, printed upside down, so that once the card is folded and standing the name reads the right way from the other side of the table too. For a head table or a row along a wall, turn the back off and it prints blank.

The sheet is cut three times, once down the middle and twice across, along the marks at its edges. Then each card folds in half at the dotted ticks. The cards run to the paper's own edges, so there is no strip to trim and throw away. Each one is 4.25 by 3.67 inches flat and stands 1.83 inches tall; on A4 it is 105 by 99 millimeters and stands 49.5.

Every name is held to twenty-four characters, and the customizer also measures each one on its card. A name that will not fit is named under the list and the button waits, so you can shorten it or use an initial before you pay, not after you print.

The themes match the wedding invitation, the reply card and the menu in this drawer. Kraft is made for kraft cardstock, which suits a Thanksgiving table: the PDF carries only the brown ink and your paper does the rest. Light ink is there for a proof on copier paper.

Print at 100%, not fit to page, on cardstock between 65 lb and 110 lb cover. Score each fold before you fold it: run an empty ballpoint pen along a ruler on the fold line and the card bends clean instead of cracking. The free version is this sheet with six sample names, in the Gilt theme, on Letter or A4, with a small credit line at the top. The paid version prints your whole list, with your line and your ornament, in every theme, and comes back in Letter and A4 from one purchase, with a link that works for a year.