Foil Business Cards
Metallic foil pressed into premium stock by hand. Every card catches the light differently — because every impression is made individually with a heated die, not printed digitally.
Custom Hot Foil Stamped
Choose your paper, pick your foil color, add embossing or edge finishing. The most options, the richest result.
From $290 for 250
3 weeks
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Raised Foil on Soft Touch
Dimensional foil that rises off a velvet-soft matte surface. Three foil colors — gold, silver, or holographic.
From $105 for 100
4 business days
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Flat Hot Foil
Clean metallic foil on smooth silk stock. Six foil colors. Our fastest foil option.
From $210 for 500
7 business days
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Holographic
Iridescent rainbow foil that shifts through the full spectrum. On velvet-soft matte stock.
From $105 for 100
4 business days
View details →What is foil stamping?
Foil stamping is a printing technique where a heated metal die presses thin metallic foil onto paper. The die is custom-made for each design — your logo, your name, a pattern — and the heat bonds the foil permanently to the paper surface. The result is a sharp metallic impression with a reflective quality that changes as the card moves in your hand.
We use hot foil stamping exclusively, which produces crisper lines and richer metallic coverage than cold foil or digital metallic printing. Gold foil business cards are our most requested, followed by silver, rose gold, and holographic — but the technique works with any metallic color on virtually any paper stock.
Foil pairs especially well with textured papers like cotton and black stock, where the contrast between matte paper and reflective metal creates the most dramatic effect. For an even richer result, combine foil with embossing to create a raised metallic impression you can feel.
Which foil option is right for you?
| Custom Hot Foil Stamped | Raised Foil on Soft Touch | Flat Hot Foil | Holographic | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Paper | Silk, Cotton, Black, Colored | Soft Touch Matte (20pt) | Silk (16pt) | Soft Touch Matte (20pt) |
| Foil colors | 6 colors | 3 (Gold, Silver, Holographic) | 6 colors | Holographic only |
| Add-ons available | Embossing, edge finishing, rounded corners, double-sided foil | Double-sided | Rounded corners, Spot UV | Double-sided |
| Turnaround | 3 weeks | 4 days | 7 days | 4 days |
| Starting price | $189 / 250 | $89 / 100 | $79 / 100 | $89 / 100 |
Custom Hot Foil Stamped
- Paper
- Silk, Cotton, Black, Colored
- Foil colors
- 6 colors
- Add-ons available
- Embossing, edge finishing, rounded corners, double-sided foil
- Turnaround
- 3 weeks
- Starting price
- $189 / 250
Raised Foil on Soft Touch
- Paper
- Soft Touch Matte (20pt)
- Foil colors
- 3 (Gold, Silver, Holographic)
- Add-ons available
- Double-sided
- Turnaround
- 4 days
- Starting price
- $89 / 100
Flat Hot Foil
- Paper
- Silk (16pt)
- Foil colors
- 6 colors
- Add-ons available
- Rounded corners, Spot UV
- Turnaround
- 7 days
- Starting price
- $79 / 100
Holographic
- Paper
- Soft Touch Matte (20pt)
- Foil colors
- Holographic only
- Add-ons available
- Double-sided
- Turnaround
- 4 days
- Starting price
- $89 / 100
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Long-tail specs
Specific specifications, priced
Deeper reads on individual technique + material combinations — honest constraints, ballpark pricing, and the specification we run most often.
Gold Foil Business Cards on Black — 100 Cards
Real gold foil stamped onto black uncoated stock. Highest-contrast combination in print — 100-card starter run.
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Foil on cotton: soft stock, hard-edged shine
Metallic foil stamped into soft 32pt cotton — the foil sits slightly below the surface so the finish reads sculpted, not applied.
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Silver foil on black: the cleanest contrast in print
Real silver foil stamped onto black uncoated stock — cooler, more editorial contrast than gold on the same sheet.
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Copper foil on cotton: the color everyone forgets to consider
Copper foil — richer than gold, less pink than rose — stamped onto warm-cream or natural-white cotton. Hand-finished character.
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Holographic foil on black — how to use it without cheapening the card
Holographic foil used as a controlled accent on black uncoated stock — dazzle without the lottery-ticket read.
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Rose gold foil on cotton: warmer than you think, cooler than roses
Rose gold foil — a copper-heavy alloy that reads warm without tipping bridal — stamped on soft 32pt cotton.
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Foil is the one finish people recognize by touch before they read it. A heated metal die presses a thin metallic or pigment film into the sheet, so the mark sits slightly below the surface and catches light at an angle. It is not printed ink — there is no toner, no CMYK build, no screen. That difference decides what your artwork can and cannot do. Four ways to do it live under this page: hot foil stamping, raised foil, holographic foil and custom foil.
The shine comes from a metal die and pressure, not from ink
A die is machined from your artwork, mounted, brought up to temperature, and pressed through a roll of foil into the card. Heat releases the film from its carrier, pressure marries it to the fibre. What you get back is a crisp metallic shape sunk a hair into the sheet.
That is why foil reads differently in a photo than it does in a hand. Ink sits on top of paper. Foil is in the paper. Tilt the card and the stamped area flares, then goes dark, then flares again. Uncoated and softer sheets take the impression deepest.
A gradient will come back as one solid tone of foil
This is the thing that disappoints people when nobody says it early. Foil has no halftone. There is no 30% silver or 60% rose gold — the die either presses foil or it doesn't. Send a logo that fades from light to dark and the whole shape stamps in a single flat tone.
So we rebuild the mark as solid shapes before anything is machined. Drop shadows, soft glows, photographic fills and blends all get resolved into hard edges. Fine hairlines and very small type need a look too, since a die has to hold that detail under pressure.
Which of the four foil methods belongs on your card
Hot foil stamping is the classic: flat metallic, sunk into the sheet, at its best on thick uncoated stock where the debossed edge is visible.
Raised foil sits proud of the surface instead of below it, so the shine rides on a slight dome you can feel with a thumbnail.
Holographic foil splits light into spectrum shift as the card moves — strong on a bold shape, muddy on thin script.
Custom foil is for when nothing on the standard swatch card matches, and the colour has to be pulled closer to a specific brand tone.
Common questions
From a physical swatch card, in daylight, against the actual paper you plan to use. Screens lie about metallics badly. Whatever you pick gets named in full on your quote, so the same foil comes back on a reprint two years from now instead of a close cousin of it.