This sommelier, or “sommelière” in the traditional French, went for a simple yet elegant business card. Though the card itself is your standard size and shape with a single color font, design ...

1. Keep Things Simple Business cards should be crisp and easy to read. In terms of design, that means leaving a fair amount of blank space so the card doesn’t look overwhelming.

FedEx missed the mark on cutting our cards correctly, but for simple business card designs with a lot of margin, this likely won’t be a problem. Marki Williams/NYT Wirecutter ...