Card sizes and sleeves
The sizes our tools print at, where each one comes from, and which sleeves fit. Publishers rarely print dimensions on the box, so some of these are measured rather than quoted.
| Game | Card | Size (mm) | Sleeve | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Blood Bowl (Third Season) | Player and Star Player cards | 75 × 110 | 75 × 110 or 76 × 112 "tarot" sleeves | Official card packs list 110 × 75 mm; two caliper measurements agree |
| HeroClix | Character cards | 63.5 × 88.9 | Standard 66 × 91 | Standard poker size, 2.5 × 3.5 inches |
| Daggerheart | Domain, item and weapon cards | 63.5 × 88.9 | Standard 66 × 91 | Same as the boxed set's cards |
| Warhammer 40,000 | Datasheet, large | 190 × 135 | None common; a card wallet or lamination | Our large format, two to a page |
| Warhammer 40,000 | Datasheet, small | 138 × 98 | Oversize 140 × 100 sleeves exist | Our compact format, four to a page |
| Age of Sigmar | Warscroll | 190 × 135 or 138 × 98 | As above | Same two formats as Munitorum |
| Age of Sigmar | Ability and enhancement cards | 63 × 88 | Standard 66 × 91 | The size of the Spearhead and battle trait cards |
The Blood Bowl lesson
For the first month our Blood Bowl cards printed at 76 × 111 mm, a figure that appears in several sleeve listings. They fit the sleeves and looked right on their own. Next to a card from an official pack they were visibly bigger, by about a millimetre each way, which is enough to show at the edge of a stack. The official packs list 110 × 75 mm, and two people measuring real cards with calipers got the same answer. The extra millimetre was sleeve slack that had been passed around as the card size. We now draw the card at 76 × 111 and scale it into a 75 × 110 trim on the sheet, which keeps hundreds of carefully placed positions untouched and gets the print right. The lesson is the one in the printing guide: measure the real thing.
Sleeves
Sleeve sizes are quoted as the inside dimensions of the sleeve, so a "63.5 × 88" sleeve is for a card of that size and measures a couple of millimetres more on the outside. The common families you will meet:
- Standard, 63.5 × 88 mm. Poker-size trading cards, HeroClix, Daggerheart, most ability cards. The easiest sleeve to buy anywhere.
- Standard American, 57 × 89 mm. Narrower than poker; many board game cards. Our tools do not use it.
- Mini European, 44 × 68 mm. Small resource cards. Not used here either.
- Tarot, 70 × 120 mm. Too loose for Blood Bowl cards; the card slides. Look for sleeves listed as 75 × 110 or 76 × 112.
- Oversize, 140 × 100 mm and up. Occasionally sold for large reference cards; a laminating pouch is the usual answer for datasheet-size cards.
Thickness is quoted in microns. 40 micron sleeves are thin and cheap and fine for a card that sits in a stack. 90 to 100 micron "premium" sleeves stand up to being handled every turn and are the right choice for Blood Bowl player cards, which get picked up constantly.
Measuring a card you already have
A ruler gets you to the nearest half millimetre, which is enough. Calipers are better. Measure both axes, measure two cards, and measure a card out of its sleeve. If a tool lets you set the size and your cards are a game not listed here, use the measured number and print one sheet to check it, as the printing guide describes.