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Below, you can see an example of what may happen if you do not extent your artwork to the bleed line (over the cutting line) in your design file. Image 1 shows a design where the artwork has been placed right against the cutting line, and image 2 shows the potential result of using such design as final artwork – even a misalignment of a few micrometers may cause a thin, white line to appear. This can easily be countered by extending your artwork to the bleed line, over the cutting line. Please note that even though this example concerns cards specifically, including a bleed in the design file is equally important for all personalized components (game boxes, gameboards, cards, rule sheets and token stickers).

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Box lid
Ideally, the design on top of the box lid should merge seamlessly into design on the sides (so that the design continues over the edges and onto the sides). Having a design on top of the box lid that continues over the edges and onto the sides will help you avoid alignment issues. If the design for the top of the box lid differs from that for the side(s), please let the top design continue 1 mm over the edges and onto the sides (see figure below). By doing this, minor deviations will be balanced in a better way. Please note that the layout criteria are different for the box bottom.

Box bottom
Contrary to the box lid, the design for the main part of the box bottom must be fitted exactly to the dieline WITHOUT continuing over the edges and onto the sides (see figure below).

Box sides
During the production of bottom-lid boxes, the printed paper is glued onto the cardboard box (see figures above). During this gluing process, the paper is folded over the edges, which causes the height of the sides to increase slightly. This results in vertically centered elements on the box sides being moved slightly towards the center of the design area. Therefore, please move design elements that need to be vertically centered (logos, text, etc.) 1 mm towards the outer edge (see figure below) to ensure better alignment.

• The card decks available via Kylingm can be customized on both sides, front and back.
• If your design has a border, we strongly recommend that this border is not thinner than 3 mm, and that the inside radius of the border is either 1 mm or 0 mm.
• You can upload one file for the entire deck. Each card front and back must be placed on a separate page (i.e. a document with a total 56 pages for a 28-card game and a 112 pages for a 56-card game). This means that you need to alternate between front and back design for each card (two pages per card – the first one for the card front and the second one for the card back).
• Make sure that the cards are in the correct order for printing. The order of pages in the file is the order of the printed deck. This means that the design on the first page of the file will be printed on the front of the first visible card in the deck and the design of the second page will be printed on the back of the first visible card.
• IMPORTANT: on the front of the first card, there will be a small white rectangle (15 x 3 mm) with a numeric code in black text, located in the upper right side of the card. This code is used for tracking each deck throughout the production process. This rectangle will be printed on top of your design and cannot be removed or changed. Please bear this in mind when designing the first card of your deck. The exact position of this rectangle is marked on the first page in all card design templates.
• Always ensure that all the cards are correctly formatted and uploaded, and that they are in the right order – check through all the cards of your deck in the editor before adding it to your game.