So, I am designing a business card in illustrator and I want it to have a texture like this
Is this just the paper that it is printed on, or do I need to put some sort of texture in my design? Like do I just design it with a flat solid color?
Answer
This example that you show is 100% real paper.
So you need to talk with printing house what paper you can use and prepare design for this paper.
You can print some paper texture on normal paper, but it will be not so realistic in my opinion and choosing other paper is better way 🙂
Example:
http://www.blog.blushpublishing.co.uk/tag/business-card/page/2/
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Source : Link , Question Author : David , Answer Author : Sebastian Zarnowski