✦ Certificates template
Leading edge · Automotive
Everything hugs the leading edge and is propped by a rule; the rest of the field stays deliberately empty.
Set in Poster condensed on the Automotive palette — a bold pairing drawn for automotive. The canvas is 11 × 8.5", the trim size the press cuts to, with the bleed and the safety margin already in place.
- Size
- 11 × 8.5"
- Layout
- Leading edge
- Type
- Poster condensed
- Palette
- Automotive
- Industry
- Automotive
- Style
- Bold
Free to edit — you pay for the printed product, not the design.
What you can change
Everything. The template opens as ordinary layers — headline, supporting lines, contacts, rules and blocks of colour — so you rewrite the words, swap the palette for your own brand colours, drop your logo in place of the mark, and move anything that sits wrong. The placeholder wording is deliberately the length of real copy, so a layout that holds here holds with your text too.
When it looks right, the artwork travels with you to Certificates or any other certificates in the catalogue, where stock, quantity and turnaround are priced live. We proof every job in Sun Valley before it goes on press.
How this file has to be built
- Bleed 0.125" · safety 0.125"
- Backgrounds run 0.125" past the cut line so trimming never opens a white sliver; anything that must survive stays 0.125" inside it. The studio canvas is the cut line itself — magenta edge — and the dashed guide inside it is the safety margin.
- 300 DPI at final size
- Small format is read at arm's length, so photos and logos need the full 300. One side or both, your choice at checkout.
- Foil mask · Raised spot UV mask
- These ride as separate masks, not as part of the artwork: 100% black where the layer lands, white where it does not. Design the ink in the studio and send the mask alongside it.
- · Decorative borders sit on the trim line — the safety margin is what keeps them even after cutting.
- · A foil or raised-UV seal needs its own 100% K mask file: black where the finish lands.
- · Leave the recipient name and date as editable fields if you plan to fill them by hand.
Other Certificates layouts
Accent band · ChildcareKids & family · Handmade
Haloed badge · Farm & gardenTrades & home services · Bold
Hard split · Meditation studioMedical & pharmacy · Bold
Nine-square grid · Security & techTech & security · Formal
Corner wedge · Gym & fitnessGym & fitness · Vintage
Full plate · Music & nightlifeArts & culture · Formal
Centred lockup · Gym & fitnessSports · Bold
Centred lockup · HotelHotels & hospitality · ClassicCertificates questions
- Why do borders drift on printed certificates?
- Because a border drawn exactly on the trim line has nowhere to go when the sheet shifts a hair in the cutter. Give the border its own margin inside the safety line and it stays even on every copy.
- Can I add a gold seal?
- Yes — certificates support foil and raised spot UV. Design the ink layer in the studio and send the seal as a separate 100% black mask.
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