Rank-and-suit card layouts with the rank in both index corners, a suit that colours the card it is on, and a back that lines up with every front. Open one in ShuffleKit and it becomes your project, with a column behind every field.
A free card game template for making your own card game: Action, Number and Reference fronts and a matching back at poker size, printable blank or filled in. An action card has a cost, a name, a picture, a type line and a rule. A number card has a big number in the middle and again in two corners, with a bar under a 6 or a 9. A reference card holds your rules. Each card’s suit colours a rounded band round a cream card, and every word is dark ink, so the cards print cleanly at home and take a pen. Type your deck into the sheet, or print empty cards and fill them in by hand, nine to a sheet. Comes with a 54-card sample game about a village garden: 16 action cards, 36 number cards in four suits and two rules cards.
A free deck of cards template with all 54 cards, to print as poker cards or to make into a deck of your own. The four suits run from ace to ten with their pips laid out the traditional way, the twelve court cards are drawn as their crowns, coronets and caps in an old engraved style, and the two jokers have a jester's cap and a juggler's clubs. Every card has its rank and suit in the top corner and again upside down in the bottom one, in red or black, and the back is a deep red lace with a crown in the middle. A Blank card design prints the corners and a gold frame round an empty middle, for a blank playing card of your own, and two blanks come with the deck. Type a rank and a suit, and the card finds its front.
A small numbered card game set of masked goblins: Puddle, Plum, Moss and Rose suit fronts and a shared back, cut to poker size and print-ready. Each card is a parchment face inside a band of its suit's colour, which widens into a tab in two opposite corners. The rank sits in the top tab and again upside down in the bottom one, so the card reads from either end of a hand, and a 6 or a 9 gets a bar underneath. A fine frame with scroll corners runs between the tabs, and the goblin's name sits under its feet. Every part of the frame is an editable shape, and a Suit column picks each card's colour. Comes with an eight-card sample deck.
An illustrated number card set with Lagoon, Coral, Kelp and Sand suit fronts and a shared back, cut to poker size and print-ready. A painting fills each white card to a jagged painted edge, and the rank is carved in chunky stone numerals in the top-left corner and again, the same way up, in the bottom-right, each hanging half off the painting onto the paper. A letter works as well as a number, so the same fronts take an ace or a king. The painted edge is one shape laid over the picture, so any artwork you drop in gets the same edge, and the suit you pick on a card chooses the colour of its stone. The card's name sits on the paper under the painting and hides when you leave it empty. Comes with an eight-card sample deck of island places, two from each suit.
A card box template for a deck of 54 poker-size cards: a tuck box drawn flat, ready to print, cut, fold and glue. Front, back, both sides, the lid and the bottom are all in place on the dieline. The title, deck name, blurb and contents are fields, so one row in the sheet is one box, and the front and back each take a picture of your own. Three designs come with it: a picture box, a classic playing card box with a double border, and a label box with no pictures at all. Print it at full size on Letter or A4 with the cut and fold lines over it, or order it from The Game Crafter as their Poker Tuck Box (54) with the deck it holds.
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From this template to a printed deck
Fifty-two cards is the point where typing them one at a time stops being reasonable. These templates are built for the other way round: the deck is a spreadsheet, and the design is a separate thing that every row draws on.
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Add the template to a project
Free, and it copies the suit fronts, the back, the fields and the sample cards into a project of your own. The author's later changes never reach your copy.
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Import the deck as a spreadsheet
Thirteen ranks across four suits is 52 rows, which is a CSV rather than an afternoon. Map your column names onto the template's on the way in, or type a shorter deck straight into the sheet.
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Each card finds its suit
The suit fronts arrive with their rules set, so a card draws on its suit's front as soon as its suit column is filled in. To move other cards onto a design, select their rows, right-click and choose Use this design. Dibbleton has one front for each kind of card instead, and a card's suit colours whichever front it lands on.
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Print the deck
On Hobby and up, export a print-ready PDF with bleed and cut lines for a home printer. On Indie, send the deck to a print-on-demand partner from inside the project and get it back cut, squared and boxed.
What size are playing cards?
Poker is the size these templates use, and it is what card sleeves, tuck boxes and print-on-demand partners are cut for. Bridge is the one worth knowing about, because a hand you have to hold is easier to fan at a quarter inch narrower.
Card
Inches
Millimetres
Pixels at 300 DPI
With bleed
Poker — these templates, and most decks sold in shops
2.5 × 3.5
63.5 × 88.9
750 × 1050
825 × 1125
Bridge — narrower, for a hand held in a fan
2.25 × 3.5
57.2 × 88.9
675 × 1050
750 × 1125
The bleed column is the canvas a printer asks for: an eighth of an inch past the cut on every edge, which the blank files below are already sized to. Keep the index corners inside the safe zone rather than against the cut, because a deck is trimmed in a stack and the last card is never cut exactly where the first one was.
The PDFs are nine blank poker cards to a sheet with crop marks, and a page of backs that lines up when you print double-sided. The SVG and PNG files are one card at print resolution, with the bleed, the cut line and the safe zone on their own layer. No account needed.
Yes. The template, the editor and the online playtable cost nothing. Hobby adds exporting the deck as PNG, SVG or PDF files, and Indie adds having it printed and boxed through Print & Ship.
Can I make a full 52-card deck?
Yes. Import a spreadsheet of 52 rows, one per card, with a rank column and a suit column. Each suit has its own front, and every card lands on the front that matches its suit without being touched one at a time.
How do I get the back to line up with the fronts?
The back is a design in the same project at the same size, so it is already aligned with every front. Export a duplex PDF and the backs are laid out to match the fronts sheet by sheet, with a long-edge or short-edge setting to match the way your printer turns the paper over.
Can I print these at home?
Yes. Export the print-ready PDF (Hobby and up) and run it on 300gsm cardstock, which is close to what a shop-bought deck uses. Cut inside the crop marks with a guillotine rather than scissors, and expect the corners to be square unless you round them yourself.
Can I change the suits?
Yes. The suit is a column with its own options and colours, not something baked into the artwork, so renaming a suit or adding a fifth one is an edit to the field rather than a redraw.
How many cards are in a deck of playing cards?
Fifty-two: thirteen ranks, ace to king, in each of four suits. Most decks add two jokers for 54, and many carry a rules or ad card besides. To make the whole deck here, import a spreadsheet with one row per card, 52 or 54 of them.
Is there a playing card template for Word or Canva?
Use the PNG below in either. It is one card at print resolution with the cut line and the safe zone drawn on it, so in Canva or Word you place it at 2.75 × 3.75 inches, the card plus its bleed, and design over it. For a sheet you can print straight away, take the PDF: nine blank cards with crop marks and a page of backs. Neither one fills a deck for you, and that part is what the editable templates above are for.
Is there a template for a card game of my own, not a standard deck?
Yes. Dibbleton is a card game template with three fronts: an action card with a cost, a picture, a type line and a rule, a number card with its number in the middle and in two corners, and a rules card. A card's suit colours its band, so four suits are one design, and a card with nothing filled in prints as an empty frame to write on. It comes with a 54-card sample game. Dibbleton, the card game template.
Is there a full deck of cards template, with court cards and jokers?
Yes. Gildercourt is all 54 cards: ace to ten in four suits with the pips laid out the traditional way, a jack, queen and king of each suit, two jokers and a red back. It also has a Blank card design, for blank playing cards with only the corners and a frame, and two blanks come with the deck. The Gildercourt deck of cards template.
Is there a template for board game cards rather than playing cards?
Yes, on their own page. A board game's cards are characters, events, resources and items more often than ranks and suits, and the board game card templates are built for those, each with a name, a picture, a rule and the numbers its type needs. Board game card templates.
Is there a template for the box the cards go in?
Yes. Tuckwell, at the end of the templates above, is a card box template: a tuck box that holds 54 poker-size cards, laid out flat with the front, back, sides and lid in place, and the title, deck name and blurb as fields. Print it on card stock with the cut and fold lines, or order it with the deck through Print & Ship.
