Clear Plastic Business Card
A business card in clear plastic, filling the whole frame — where the material is proved by the gap between two layers of ink rather than by anything behind it. Six fields.
We made two examples: a cool-grey card and a sea-glass green one. Both have the same five positions and the same two depths of ink, with a word sunk under the surface and the sheen passing over it. Only the tint and the words change.
The card fills the whole frame with no edge or corner in view, and the clear plastic shows in the gap between two layers of ink: the sunken word has softer edges under the sheen, while the contact details stay crisp on the front face. The sheen often comes out stronger than asked, and the name block can sit higher than the lower-left corner, though the hierarchy still reads.
Generated for this library
Input
Company VIBARY / a vibe library
Contact Studio 4, The Old Print Works · Bristol BS1 6QY ·
T (+44) 117 496 0210 · [email protected] · vibary.ai
Ghost VIBE
Person MAYA ELLIOTT / Library Director
Direct maya / @vibary.ai
Tint the faintest cool grey, almost colourless
Returned 1 card · 1.75:1 · the card is the whole image
bleed no edge, no corner, no rim anywhere in frame
near company upper left, contact block upper right at five
lines, name lower left, direct line lower right - all
crisp, black, tightly tracked
under VIBE across the lower two thirds, pale, softer than the
near layer, both ends cut by the frame
depth the near type casts the faintest separation over the
ghost where they cross; surface sheen passes over both
material uneven internal haze, never a flat fill, no colourYou fill in 6 fields — the braced lines at the top. Everything below them is fixed.
- 1The company, and its line
- 2The five-line contact block
- 3The ghost wordmark
- 4The person, and their role
- 5The direct line
- 6The tint
Clear Plastic Business Card
What this makes
A business card in clear plastic, filling the whole frame — where the material is proved by the gap between two layers of ink rather than by anything behind it. Six fields.
The whole template, in one piece. The steps below are the entire workflow.
How to use it
- Copy the whole template with the button above.
- Replace the six FIELDS lines. Keep the ghost word different from the company name — the long form above, the short form underneath.
- Paste it into any image-capable agent or model, in one message. One run returns the card.
- Check two things before shipping: that no edge of the card is visible anywhere, and that the huge word looks like it is under the surface rather than printed on it. Those are the two failures this style has.
What you swap
- The company, and its line
- VIBARY / a vibe library
- The five-line contact block
- Studio 4, The Old Print Works · Bristol BS1 6QY · T (+44) 117 496 0210 · [email protected] · vibary.ai
- The ghost wordmark
- VIBE
- The person, and their role
- MAYA ELLIOTT / Library Director
- The direct line
- maya / @vibary.ai
- The tint
- the faintest cool grey, almost colourless
Before it runs
- A short word for the ghost layer. It gets set enormous and cropped at both edges, and anything past five or six letters stops being a shape.
- A real five-line contact block. Four lines leaves the corner looking unfinished and six turns it into a paragraph.
- A willingness to use no colour at all. The material is the only visual effect here, and one accent is enough to flatten it.
When to reach for it
When a studio, press or practice needs a card that looks like it came from a real identity system. Templates in this style ask for a transparent card and forbid any background in the same breath, which is why the result comes back as a flat grey panel with nothing to see through.
What changes
- One card filling the entire image, edge to edge — a design, not a photograph of a design sitting on a desk.
- The material is carried by depth between two ink planes: contact type crisp on the near surface, a huge wordmark sunk beneath it.
- A five-part hierarchy that holds at any crop — company, contact block, ghost wordmark, name and role, direct line.
- A modernist grid with real restraint: one weight of sans, tight tracking, no rules, no ornament, no colour.
- The wordmark runs off both edges, which is what makes a small rectangle read as part of something larger.
Pairs with
- Brand Name Typography BoardGive it a brand name, get one silent black-and-white board back — the same name set fifteen ways, in five families of typographic levers.
- Art Toy 3D PortraitA soft 3D character portrait in the art-toy idiom — built around choosing a pose that cannot go wrong, because the one thing these renders always break is named and never solved. Six fields.
- Blind-Embossed Shopping BagA blind-embossed shopping bag photographed in raking light — where the pattern has no colour at all and exists only as shadow, so it has to fade the way real relief fades. Six fields.