Greeting Card
About this template
Elegant half-fold greeting card LaTeX template, a landscape page split into an inside message panel and a calligraphic front-cover panel with gold ornaments and a center fold guide. Print, fold, done.
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- Document class
article[a4paper]- Compiles with
- pdfLaTeX
- Pages in the compiled PDF
- 1
- Bibliography
- None
- Files
- 1 file: 1 .tex
- Packages
geometryfontenctgpagellaxcolortikzcalligra
\documentclass[a4paper]{article}
\usepackage[paperwidth=297mm,paperheight=210mm,margin=0mm,
headheight=0pt,headsep=0pt,footskip=0pt,nohead,nofoot]{geometry}
\setlength{\topskip}{0pt}
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\usepackage{tgpagella}
\usepackage{xcolor}
\usepackage{tikz}
\usepackage{calligra} % elegant calligraphic display face (\calligra)
\usetikzlibrary{decorations.pathmorphing}
% ── Palette ─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
\definecolor{cardbg}{HTML}{FDF6F0} % warm cream
\definecolor{accent}{HTML}{8B3A62} % plum
\definecolor{gold}{HTML}{B8924A} % soft gold
\definecolor{ink}{HTML}{2E1A24}
\definecolor{fold}{HTML}{D9C7CF}
\pagecolor{cardbg}
\setlength{\parindent}{0pt}
\pagestyle{empty}
% ── A small floral / laurel ornament ────────────────────────────────────────
\newcommand{\ornament}[1][accent]{%
\begin{tikzpicture}[scale=0.5]
\draw[#1,line width=1pt] (-2,0) .. controls (-1,0.5) and (-0.4,0.2) .. (0,0)
.. controls (0.4,0.2) and (1,0.5) .. (2,0);
\foreach \x in {-1.5,-1,-0.5,0.5,1,1.5}{
\fill[gold] (\x,0) circle (1.6pt);}
\fill[#1] (0,0) circle (2.4pt);
\end{tikzpicture}}
% one panel = half the page width, full height
\newcommand{\panelW}{148.5mm}Put this template on your own page
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What does the Greeting Card template load?
It uses the article class (options: a4paper), builds with pdfLaTeX, and loads 6 packages: geometry, fontenc, tgpagella, xcolor, tikz and calligra.
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The compiled sample is one page, from a single file. Replace the sample text with yours and the layout stays.
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