Aura Design Studio · v1

Craft luxury card designseffortlessly.

Cardi is an editor for affluent banking. Compose your skin from aerospace titanium, sapphire, forged carbon. Etch a four‑letter monogram in your hand. Toggle privacy with one tap. Every change renders in real time on a card that behaves like the real thing.

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Cardholder
ALEXANDRA MORENO
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Aerospace TitaniumFrosted CobaltForged CarbonRose Gold 18KSmoked SapphireChampagne Brass
Aerospace TitaniumFrosted CobaltForged CarbonRose Gold 18KSmoked SapphireChampagne Brass

01 — The Principle

A card is not a payment.It is an object you carry.

Every Cardi skin begins as a brief — a material, a monogram, a finish. We model weight, thermal envelope, even the way light catches a hairline brushed seam. The studio is engineered so the digital preview behaves like the physical card you will eventually carry.

No more renders that lie. No more reveal-day disappointment. The card you design is the card you receive — composed in your browser, then forged in our atelier.

02 — The Studio

Five precise instruments. One bespoke object.

Every Cardi design is composed in real time. No drafts, no rendering queues — what you see is what is forged.

i.

Live Preview Card

Every adjustment renders instantly on a true-to-scale, light-aware card. Tilt, hairline, shadow — all accounted for.

ii.

Material Selector

Brushed Titanium, Frosted Cobalt, Forged Carbon — each material carries real weight specs and a faithful surface.

iii.

Bespoke Monogramming

Up to four characters in serif, script, sans, display, or mono. Etched with a custom accent color in real time.

iv.

Privacy Mode

One toggle obscures the cardholder name and last four with a tactile blur. Show it to a stranger without showing them anything.

v.

Engineering Specs

Weight, thickness, composition, thermal resistance — every material exposes its dossier in a collapsible panel.

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Ready to design?

Sign in and the studio opens directly on the card.

03 — The Atelier

A material library tuned for affluent banking.

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Matte Onyx

$60

Silent. Engineered.

A signature matte finish over a black-anodized aluminum core. Reads as understated until you feel its weight.

16g·0.74mm·Soft matte
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premium

Brushed Titanium

$100

Aerospace-grade poise.

A multi-pass brushed finish reveals fine grain striations across an aerospace titanium core. Cool to the touch, impossibly thin, and forensically resistant to corrosion.

22g·0.78mm·Hairline brushed
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Frosted Cobalt

$100

Deep ocean, refined.

A frosted veil over a cobalt sub-layer creates a quiet, midnight-blue depth. Engineered for subtlety with a soft tactile bloom.

19g·0.82mm·Frosted matte
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premium

Champagne Brass

$120

Warmth with structure.

Brushed brass with a champagne tint and a satin clear coat. A warmer alternative for those who prefer gold without the glare.

21g·0.8mm·Brushed satin
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signature

Obsidian Carbon

$180

Carbon woven, light absorbed.

Forged carbon fibers laid in a twill weave, then sealed under a vantablack micro-laminate. Light enters and does not return.

18g·0.76mm·Twill carbon weave
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signature

Polished Rose Gold

$220

Quietly opulent.

A polished rose gold plating laid over a tungsten core. Mirror-finish with a subtle copper warmth that catches candlelight.

24g·0.84mm·Mirror polish
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Smoked Sapphire

$250

Light, captured and slowed.

A lab-grown sapphire wafer tinted in a smoke gradient, suspended over a ceramic substrate. Translucent at the edge, opaque at the center.

17g·0.79mm·Smoked translucent

04 — Terms

Pricing, three ways.

Use the studio free. Pay only for what you forge, or subscribe and design freely.

Atelier

The studio, with standard materials.

Free
  • Live preview card
  • Standard tier materials
  • 1 saved design
  • Privacy mode toggle
Most loved

Signature

Unlimited designs, all materials.

$19.99/month
  • Premium & signature materials
  • Unlimited saved designs
  • All monogram font styles
  • Engineering spec dossiers
  • Priority forge queue

One-off

Pay only for the design you forge.

$100 /design
  • Single bespoke design
  • Includes one monogram
  • Choose any premium material
  • Engineering dossier included

Bespoke monogram add-on · $10 per design

Your card. Composed in your hand.Forged in ours.

The studio is browser-only. No installs, no waitlists. Open the editor and the card responds instantly.