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Gold Foil Business Cards With a Warm Metallic Finish

Gold foil business cards add a bright, reflective finish to logos, names and selected design details. As the card moves, the foil shifts between light-catching highlights and deeper golden tones, creating a dynamic contrast that standard print cannot replicate, helping important parts of your design stand out.

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Introduce Your Brand as the Gold Standard

Gold foil gives business cards a bright focal point while allowing the printed design to remain clear and balanced. Its warm yellow colour works across black, white, coloured and printed backgrounds, giving you control over the level of contrast. Configure your options online, then reply to your Order Confirmation email with your artwork or design brief. We will send a digital proof for your approval before production begins.

  • Use gold foil for logos, names, borders, patterns or selected artwork details.

  • Choose from six paper stocks, with weights available from 16pt to 38pt.

  • Add painted edges, rounded corners or extra thickness to change how the card looks and feels.

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Choose from 12 metallic foil colours, with a different foil available on each side.

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Choose from 6 paper stocks, 16 to 38pt, all available with double-sided printing and foiling.

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Configure your order and watch the total price update in real time.

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Our in-house design team supports you from your initial brief to digital proof approval.

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Every order is printed, foiled, finished and quality checked in-house.

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Rush production available, with dispatch in as little as 4 working days after proof approval.

Customer Gallery: Foil Business Cards

Browse metallic foil business cards produced for previous customer orders. See how different combinations of foil colours, paper stocks and finishing options work together, and find ideas for your own business card design. Explore our full print gallery for more customer work.

Holographic silk Mother of Chaos monochromatic business cards with bold black typography, white card front, black reverse, and iridescent logo detail.
Listening Stars 28-page gloss comic book opened on an easel, showing dark blue illustrated interior pages with speech bubbles, comic panels, and glossy print finish.
8-page silk Yiqi Pan Asian Cuisine menu with clean green branding, illustrated bowl artwork, restaurant awards, and printed food sections with dish photos.
Metallic gold “POPPY” landscape silk art print with bold 3D-style lettering, a lavender marbled background, and a black border.
Metallic silver bright red creased belly bands with 4-leaf clover logo, black star details, and folded wraparound paper design.
Metallic copper die-cut ROOT circle sticker with white botanical line art, bold lettering, and illustrated plant-themed details.
8-page uncoated A5 order of ceremony booklet opened on an easel, showing a minimalist wedding programme page with centred text and soft textured paper finish.
Bio Cycle Rag Texas Buster fireworks postcard with vintage-style illustration, showing a cowboy sitting on a firecracker with soft textured print finish.
Metallic gold A3 quote art print with bold “Dont Be a Dick” lettering on a bright green background, displayed on a wooden easel.
12-page A5 silk artist product catalogue opened on an easel, showing printed artwork examples with painting titles, medium details, and gallery-style page layout.
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Production Turnaround

We aim to produce and dispatch all orders as quickly and efficiently as possible. As every product is custom printed to order, turnaround times can vary depending on artwork approval, quantity, finishing options and the complexity of the project. More specialist products and finishes, including duplex, triplex, die cut and foiled items, will usually require additional production time due to the extra processes involved.

As you configure your product, the online calculator updates in real time to show an estimated turnaround based on your chosen options. Once you approve your proof, our team will email you a dispatch estimate for your specific order. This estimate covers the production time from proof approval to dispatch and does not include courier delivery time.

Rush Production

If you’re working towards a tight deadline, we also offer a Rush Service at checkout which means you can reduce the production turnaround by 1 business day on eligible products.

Quality Checks and Dispatch

Although we are based in the UK, our courier partners provide fast, tracked delivery across Canada. Orders are carefully printed, finished, quality checked and prepared for dispatch before being sent across the Atlantic.

Canadian shipping is charged from CA$24.95. Delivery to major urban areas in southern Canada typically takes 1–2 business days after dispatch, while deliveries to rural, remote, northern and territorial locations may take an estimated 2–3 business days or longer, depending on location and courier coverage.

Delivery Options and Returns

You can find full information on delivery times, shipping options, courier services, and return policies on our Delivery & Returns page.

Printing the Base Design

Every foiled product begins with the main artwork being printed, which is the first stage in how our digital foil printing process works. This creates the text, imagery and background elements that form the printed base layer. Printing this artwork first allows the metallic details to be positioned accurately as part of the finished design during the later stages.

Applying the Soft Touch Laminate

Once printed, the sheet is covered with an ultra-fine soft touch laminate. Any side receiving foil must be laminated so the toner can adhere cleanly before the metallic foil is applied. The laminate also protects the printed surface, prepares it for the foiling process and adds a smooth, velvety matt finish.

Overprinting the Foil Areas

Toner is then printed over the soft touch laminate using the separately supplied foil artwork. This overprint defines the areas intended to receive foil, such as lettering, linework, logos or selected design details. For every side being foiled, supply one print file and one separate foil file, following our foil artwork setup guide.

Applying the Metallic Foil

Finally, the printed sheets pass through one of our foiling machines, where the chosen metallic foil is bonded to the toner using heat and pressure, bringing the full printed design together. The sheets can then move on to cutting, creasing or any other required finishing.

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Choose your options and order online with our product configurator, which updates your total in real time.

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Reply to your Order Confirmation email with your artwork or design brief and any supporting files.

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We check for technical issues and contact you if needed. You are responsible for checking the spelling, information and layout before you approve.

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Once approved, your order moves into production and is dispatched within a few working days.

How to Supply Your Artwork?

After placing your order, reply to your Order Confirmation email with your artwork files, design brief, or a download link including your order number. For detailed specs, see the resources below. Need help writing a foil design brief or preparing your files? Contact our friendly design team or visit our blog.

Basic Requirements

Additional Finishing Requirements

For products with foil, Spot UV, cutting, creasing, perforation or drilling, we strongly recommend including a composite reference page for each printed side to prevent mirrored or misplaced finishing elements and guide our design team when preparing your proof.

Metallic Foil & Spot UV Products

  • Supply the CMYK artwork and the foil or Spot UV elements on separate pages.

  • Set all foil or Spot UV elements to 100% K (black). See our helpful guide about how to supply artwork for foil printing.

Die Cut, Kiss Cut, Folded, Perforated or Drilled Products

  • Indicate die-cut lines, kiss-cut lines, crease lines and drill holes using a solid 1pt magenta line on a separate page. See our helpful guide about how to supply artwork for die/kiss cutting.

  • Indicate perforation lines using a dashed 1pt magenta line on a separate page.

Variable Data Merge

  • If you select All Prints Personalized via Data Merge, supply a spreadsheet alongside your artwork containing the information for each print.

  • Use one row for each personalized print and clearly label each column, such as Name, Address, or Unique Code.

  • Download our Variable Data Merge template to get started.

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Download our PDF template for all available sizes.

What Does Gold Foil Look Like on a Business Card?

In person, gold foil appears brighter and more reflective than it does on a screen. Its warm yellow tone shifts from pale flashes to deeper gold as the card moves, especially in direct light or sunlight.

Screens and static images cannot reproduce this changing reflection accurately, so a physical metallic foil sample pack is the most reliable way to compare the colour and shine before ordering.

What Is the Difference Between Gold, Rose Gold and Copper Foil?

Gold foil has a bright yellow-gold tone, rose gold uses softer pink-copper tones, while copper bronze foil is deeper with stronger orange-red undertones.

Gold is the lightest and most recognizably golden of the three, rose gold has a softer appearance, and copper creates a richer, earthier finish.

Compare each tone against your printed colours and paper choice to see which works best with your design.

Can I Print Gold Foil Business Cards on Black or Coloured Paper?

Yes. Gold foil stays clearly visible on black, coloured and printed backgrounds.

Darker backgrounds create stronger contrast, while lighter and natural papers produce a softer effect.

The background changes how prominent the foil appears, but does not impact the colour of the gold itself.

Can I Combine Gold Foil and Full-Colour Printing on the Same Business Card?

Yes. Your full-colour artwork is printed first, then gold foil is applied wherever you choose in your separate foil artwork. This lets you combine photographs, gradients, colours and backgrounds with metallic logos, lettering or selected details.

Supply the printed design and foil artwork on separate pages so we can check the position of each before production.

You can see all four stages in the Foiling Process tab on this page.

Can Gold Foil Be Applied to Both Sides of My Business Cards?

Yes. You can add gold foil to the front, back or both sides of your business cards.

Every foiled side receives soft touch lamination and needs separate printed and foil artwork showing exactly where the gold should appear.

We will send you a digital proof so you can check the layout and foil placement before production.

How Fine Can Gold Foil Details Be on Business Cards?

Keep gold foil lines and lettering at least 0.5pt (0.18mm) thick, with the same minimum space between separate foil elements. The foil bonds to a printed toner layer, so details below this size may break up or join together during production.

Clear spacing and slightly bolder shapes will give the finished foil cleaner, more consistent edges.

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Recommended Guides for Foil Business Cards

Practical guides to help you set up your foil business cards. Learn how to write a design brief, prepare your foil artwork, avoid common issues and check your files and proof. These guides cover the key steps before your order enters production.

Illustrated foil business card designs featuring colourful character artwork, demonstrating artwork preparation for metallic foil printing.Illustrated foil business card designs featuring colourful character artwork, demonstrating artwork preparation for metallic foil printing.

Setting Up Your Artwork for Foil Printing

Follow the artwork requirements for separating your printed design and foil elements, preparing each page and supplying your files correctly.

Illustrated event poster designs displayed in multiple positions to demonstrate print movement tolerances and foil registration alignment.Illustrated event poster designs displayed in multiple positions to demonstrate print movement tolerances and foil registration alignment.

Printing Movement Tolerances

Learn how to prevent foil printing issues by adjusting thin lines, tight spacing, intricate patterns and close alignment before production.

Illustrated print-ready artwork files featuring a colourful map design with cursor icons, representing artwork checks before sending files to print.Illustrated print-ready artwork files featuring a colourful map design with cursor icons, representing artwork checks before sending files to print.

How to Check Your Artwork for Print

Use a practical checklist to review your bleed, safe zones, resolution, colour setup and other common artwork requirements before sending your files.

Colourful foil packaging artwork featuring a strawberry-themed product design with a cursor icon, representing the review and approval of a digital foil printing proof.Colourful foil packaging artwork featuring a strawberry-themed product design with a cursor icon, representing the review and approval of a digital foil printing proof.

How to Check Your Foil Printing Proof

Check each page of your foil proof carefully and confirm the artwork, information, foil placement and layout before approving your order for production.

Keep Your Brand Consistent Beyond the Business Card

A foil business card is often the first step in building professional relationships. These related products help expand your branding, offer value when customers interact with your business and support your marketing by creating further opportunities for loyalty, repeat business and referrals.

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Metallic Foil Fyers

Promote your products, services or events with matching metallic foil flyers, giving customers more information while keeping your print materials consistent with your brand.

Metallic foil die-cut sticker in a hexagonal shape with vibrant pink branding and bold typography on premium sticker stock.Metallic foil die-cut sticker in a hexagonal shape with vibrant pink branding and bold typography on premium sticker stock.

Metallic Foil Stickers

Apply matching metallic foil stickers to packaging, envelopes and products to create a consistent branded finish that customers can recognize across different items and materials.

Metallic foil postcard displayed alongside a matching mailing postcard, showcasing colourful branding and direct mail design.Metallic foil postcard displayed alongside a matching mailing postcard, showcasing colourful branding and direct mail design.

Metallic Foil Postcards

Create direct mail campaigns with matching metallic foil finishes that extend your brand, share key information and give customers something physical to keep or respond to.

Metallic foil invitation featuring elegant typography and a minimalist wedding-inspired design on premium white cardstock.Metallic foil invitation featuring elegant typography and a minimalist wedding-inspired design on premium white cardstock.

Metallic Foil Invitations

Promote product launches, event openings, networking opportunities and special occasions with branded invites that carry your visual identity beyond your business cards.

Metallic foil greeting card featuring a pastel pink birthday cake illustration and metallic gold foil Birthday lettering on folded cardstock.Metallic foil greeting card featuring a pastel pink birthday cake illustration and metallic gold foil Birthday lettering on folded cardstock.

Metallic Foil Greeting Cards

Send branded thank-you messages, seasonal greetings and special occasion cards with metallic foil details that create a more considered and personal design.

Gold Foil Business Cards With a Warm Metallic FinishGold foil business cards add a bright, reflective finish to logos, names and selected design details. As the card moves, the foil shifts between light-catching highlights and deeper golden tones, creating a dynamic contrast that standard print cannot replicate, helping important parts of your design stand out.
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