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The Ultimate Guide to Graphic Design Templates

What is a template in graphic design? A lazy shortcut or one of the greatest assets you can have? Let’s learn about graphic design templates, where you can find them, how to use them, and much more!

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Graphic design templates can help you kickstart your design process if you are stuck. Since you don’t have to start from scratch, design templates save you tons of hours.

Here is a list of 35+ brilliant sets of templates categorized for different purposes.

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Business cards

This business card template uses three primary colors—red, black, and white. On the front, you can display all the important contact information; on the back, you can display your business logo to create an everlasting impact.

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If you want a touch of elegant royalty in your business card, these types of design templates will work best for you. Go for dark monochromatic colors for the background and golden colors for texts and illustrations. 

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If you are a doctor or a lawyer, black-and-white template options are perfect for showing you mean business and take your work seriously. 

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Clean lines, ample space, and a simple layout offer a polished touch to your business cards. Whether you're in engineering, accounting, medicine, dentistry, or pharmacy, this design suits professionals across various fields, with or without a logo.

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Incorporating colorful shapes in your business card design is a great way to give your card a clean and professional look. You can even add your photo to personalize the card even further. 

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The strokes of watercolors add a touch of artistic creativity, so they’re a good choice for artists, interior designers, or architects.

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For high-level roles in creative industries like producing or marketing, an abstract design on your business card makes a bold statement. 

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This business card template is an excellent choice if you want to create business cards with minimalist designs. On the front, you can display the company or owner’s name and a tagline or credentials; on the back, you can share the contact details.

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Marble-like designs look great for construction companies and interior designers.             

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Flyers

Flyers with simple designs and only the essential information work best for businesses. This flyer template is perfect for a cleaning company that wants to market its services to local customers.

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Combine a powerful picture with trendy colors like purple, and you will have a stunning flyer for your fitness business like the one below.

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On the other hand, pastels can be a a great elegant choice too. 

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This flyer design by The Side Hustle contains a perfect mix of elements that make it fun to look at. Custom illustrations, a stunning color palette, and a matching type font make for a recipe for success.

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If you are designing for a spa business, this graphic design template is perfect. A picture that portrays relaxation and the calm, monochromatic color adds a soothing touch to the flyer.

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Playing with font and placing them in various sizes and colors on the flyer can help you create a minimalistic yet creative flyer. 

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This barber shop flyer template is perfect for attracting your specific clientele—let your salon's vibe shine, and watch the right customers flock in.

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If you are creating a flyer about a particular product, then making that product the main subject of your design can create an immense visual impact on the audience. However, when you do this, remember to keep only the essential text and details.

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If you are making a flyer for a restaurant or a fast food chain, make sure you include the best-selling dish on the design.

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If you want to give your flyers a professional and a clean look, go for shapes. The shapes add a depth to the graphic design. Such flyers can be used for internal communication or job advertisements.

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Social media posts

Infographic social media design templates, like the one below, allow you to share educational content with your audience and establish your brand identity.

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This social media template is perfect for any social media platform where you can potentially hire a candidate. It gives you the space to add your logo, a big, bold heading, a CTA space, enough space to share the essential details, and a photo holder to complete the professional look.

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If you run social media ads for a course or an online workshop, then these types of design templates work great. Just insert a relevant photograph, brand logo, essential contact details, and a relatable headline that complements your CTA.

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Infographics work great on social media. They engage and educate your audience at the same time. Use vivid colors and relatable illustrations to make an impact.

You don’t need a design team anymore to create illustrations. ManyPixels has vast library of free customizable illustrations that you can simply download and use in your design projects. 

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Social media posts that feature food are great for engagement, so if you are creating posts for a restaurant or a fast food chain, ensure that you use the food item as the main subject of your design.

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Carousels are a great way to share a listicle or dissect a lengthy educational content into easily digestible pieces. They work great on LinkedIn, Instagram, and Facebook. You can create a carousel post using a thematic template like the one below.

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Creating visual content for different social media platforms is no longer a headache. Download this template below and just adjust the colors, add your logo and marketing text, and go live in minutes.

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Promotional social media posts must look professional and clean. A minimal design combined with a photo and a headline works great to generate leads on LinkedIn or Instagram.

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Even if you have created an amazing video for your YouTube channel, nobody will watch it if the thumbnail fails to make them click. A trendy, dark background with minimal text and a person’s face is a proven formula to get views on your video.

We have a complete guide on how to make a great YouTube thumbnail. Do check it out.

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For tech companies, if you want to promote your software or apps on social media, display a short video or screenshots of your app’s user interface. Add your contact details, website information, and a headline that explains your app, and you’re good to go.

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Presentations

Vivid colors in a presentation tempate help you highlight the important text without overdoing it and without needing any illustrations to make your point.

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To make an impactful pitch deck, combine vivid colors with relevant and relatable illustrations. The headlines and texts must be short and occasionally include pictures to create a balance with illustrations.

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This graphic design template combines the power of engaging media like videos and images and branded illustrative infographics. Such presentation templates let you deliver a fun presentation while also imparting knowledge.

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If you want to create an informative presentation with important information like revenue details, profits, geographical locations, and expansions, a template pack is the way to go. 

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If your presentation contains a lot of text, go for a trendy color, as it is the only visual element that can make it impactful. 

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Ads

Social media ads are all about nuances. Using the same ad design over and over again probably won’t work and will make your ads look annoying and spammy. So, the best way is to use a simple social media ad design template.

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Create different ad types in suitable sizes and file formats for various channels. Use your primary brand colors and create a basic layout for your logo, heading, CTA, image, etc. These ad templates are ideal for lead generation or increasing website traffic.

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Most of the time, a social media ad with a product image and a powerful headline will bring you more sales than a text-heavy ad image. If it is a sales campaign for, let’s say, Black Friday, you can try this template out.

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Combining colors with shapes like triangles or boxes gives you more freedom to experiment with your ads. 

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Landscape ad templates also work well on platforms like Facebook and LinkedIn. You can use illustrations or photos on one side and headings and CTA buttons on the left. 

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Where to find graphic design templates?

Graphic designers, both professionals and novices, can find free or affordable graphic design templates on several platforms:

  • Canva: Offers a user-friendly interface and a vast template library. Canva also provides useful design tools to edit templates quickly.
  • Template.net: This website offers free and paid plans and access to various original designs, including editable file formats like AI, PSD, and EPS, making it ideal for professional designers.
  • Freepik: Known for illustrations and images, Freepik offers free and paid editable templates, making it a valuable resource for DIY designers seeking templates and photos in one place.
  • Stock Layouts: Specializes in high-quality print design templates for items like flyers and brochures, with options for individual purchases or unlimited access subscriptions.
  • PNG Tree: Offers more than just PNG files, with stock photos, clipart, 3D illustrations, vectors, and backgrounds available. It provides various pricing tiers, including lifetime subscriptions, catering to different needs and budgets.

Templates are great - but nothing beats custom.

While graphic design templates are helpful, transforming them into custom designs requires skill. For example, even if you download landing page or website design templates, you’ll need a little website development knowledge to adjust and personalize the template.

This is where ManyPixels can help you out. ManyPixels offers on-demand graphic design solutions for a flat monthly fee, ensuring hassle-free access to custom designs without the DIY struggle. 

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Rohit is a novelist (not a NY Times Bestseller!), an avid reader, a passionate content writer, and does YouTube on the side as a hobby! When he is not researching and writing content, he loves to read books and watch movies, TV shows, and anime.

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