Tarot card templates

Major arcana, numbered suits, court and oracle card layouts at tarot size, with the meanings on the card and room for your own artwork. Open one in ShuffleKit and it becomes your project, with a column behind every field.

Card size
Tarot, 2.75 × 4.75 in (825 × 1425 at 300 DPI)
Includes
Two sets, each with trump and suit fronts, a back and a sample deck
Fields
Name, numeral, suit, artwork, keywords and meaning
Output
Edit in the browser, export PNG, SVG or a print PDF

2 templates

Orrery Tarot and Oracle Card Template preview
OrreryTarot and Oracle Card

A flat, geometric tarot set: major arcana, numbered suits, court and oracle fronts with a shared back, cut to tarot size and print-ready. Every frame is editable shapes and type rather than a flattened image, so the brass and the ink are yours to change. Comes with a seven-card sample deck.

5 designs7 sample cards6 fields
Nightjar Custom Tarot Card Template preview
NightjarCustom Tarot Card

An illustrated tarot deck template with Major Arcana, Wands, Cups, Swords and Pentacles fronts and a shared back, cut to tarot size and print-ready. A painting fills the whole card inside a fine double gold keyline, with the card's number on a ribbon hanging from the top edge, a diamond under it carrying the suit's mark, the name on a pointed plate with gold sparkles at its ends, two keywords on a band beneath it, and a panel of italic verse over mist curling up from the foot of the picture. The back is gold line engraving on midnight: a crescent moon in a ringed medallion with vines, sprigs and the four suit marks round it. Every part of the frame is an editable shape, so the ribbon, the plates and the keylines are fills you can recolour, and the suit you pick on a card chooses its front. Comes with an eight-card sample deck of trumps, pips and courts.

6 designs8 sample cards6 fields

From this template to a printed deck

A tarot deck is 78 cards and only a few kinds of card. Each of these templates is built as a set, so the trumps, the numbered suits and the court share a frame and a back and still read as different cards in a spread.

  1. Add the template to a project

    Free, and it copies the fronts, the back, the fields and the sample cards into a project of your own.

  2. Put the deck in the sheet

    One row per card. Type them in, or import a CSV of all 78 and map your column names onto the template's, which is the only sane way to enter a full deck.

  3. Point each card at the design it belongs on

    The fronts arrive with their rules set, so every trump draws on the major arcana front and every numbered card on the suit front as soon as its columns are filled in. To move a card by hand, right-click its row and choose Use this design.

  4. Print the deck

    On Hobby and up, 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 to tarot size.

What size are tarot cards?

Tarot is the size these templates use, and it is what tarot pouches, tuck boxes and print-on-demand partners are cut for. The others are worth knowing about if the deck is meant to be shuffled one-handed or carried.

CardInchesMillimetresPixels at 300 DPI
Tarot — these templates, and most published decks2.75 × 4.7569.9 × 120.7825 × 1425
Large — a roomier card for heavy artwork3.5 × 588.9 × 1271050 × 1500
Poker — pocket decks and oracle decks2.5 × 3.563.5 × 88.9750 × 1050
Square — oracle and affirmation decks3 × 376.2 × 76.2900 × 900

A print-on-demand partner will ask for an eighth of an inch of bleed on every edge on top of these numbers — 900 × 1500 for a tarot card, which is what the blank files below are sized to. A deck printed at two sizes cannot be shuffled together, so pick one before you draw anything.

Every card size, with the bleed figures

Prefer a blank file?

Print resolution, with the bleed, the cut line and the safe zone on their own layer. No account needed.

Questions about tarot card templates

Everything you need to know before getting started.

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Are these tarot card templates free?

Yes. Adding and editing a tarot template is free, and you can lay out a spread on the online playtable without paying. Exporting files is on Hobby and up, and printing through Print & Ship is on Indie.

Do I have to draw 78 illustrations?

Not with Orrery. Its numbered suit cards draw their own pip field from the card's number and suit mark, so a Seven of Cups needs no artwork at all, and only the trumps and the court cards have an artwork window: 22 and 16 pictures rather than 78. Nightjar is full art, with a painting behind every card, so it wants a picture per card or one picture repeated across a suit.

Can one project hold the trumps, the suits and the court?

Yes, and that is what this set is for. The designs live side by side in one project, and each card draws on the design that matches it, so the whole deck exports in one pass.

Can I change the colours?

Yes. The frames are shapes, rings and type rather than a flattened picture of a frame, so Orrery's brass and paper and Nightjar's ribbons, plates and gold keylines are ordinary elements you can recolour, move or delete.

Can I use these for an oracle deck?

Yes. Orrery has an oracle front with no numeral and no artwork window, built for a deck of keywords and messages. On Nightjar, leave a card's Rank empty and the ribbon hangs bare over the painting, which suits an oracle card with a picture and a message.

How do I print them?

On a paid plan, export a print-ready PDF with bleed and cut lines and print it on cardstock. On Indie you can also send the deck to a print-on-demand partner from inside ShuffleKit and get cut, tarot-sized cards back.

Ready to build your card game?

Start with Orrery Tarot and Oracle Card Template, or open any other template above.