Contrast Card Generator

Newborn (0–2 months)

26 cards, drawn for viewing distances of 30 · 60 · 120 · 250 cm. Download, print at 100%, and put it where it will actually be looked at.

A newborn resolves roughly 20/400: bold edges, big shapes, and nothing subtle. These are the plainest cards in the catalogue, and that is the point — at this age the biggest, highest-contrast thing in the room is the interesting thing in the room. Black and white only; colour vision is still arriving and a coloured card at this stage teaches the eye less, not more.

Print at 100%. Choose “Actual size” / “100%” in the print dialog — “Fit to page” resizes the sheet and the size is the whole point.Check your printer once and every card after that comes out right.

Not a medical device. Enrichment and accessibility prints, not a diagnostic or therapeutic tool — for premature, CVI or low-vision care, follow your clinicians. Mount prints where they cannot be pulled down, and never inside a cot with a baby in it (mounting safely).

High-contrast single shape card (square) for a newborn to look at from 60 cm — white on black, thinnest feature 190.4 mm.

Single shape · square

Single shape · square · Newborn (0–2 months) · from 60 cm · white on black · thinnest feature 190.4 mm · designed for ~20/400

Sheet size:US Letter

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Only on US Letter — why?

no a4.pdf: at 60 cm the 'shape' motif is wider than an A4 sheet, and a figural pattern is scaled down to fit rather than cropped — so the print would be the same drawing at the same size as its longer-distance siblings, and the distance in its title would stop being a property of the sheet you hold. It is still sized by the viewing distance on US Letter, which is the sheet this card ships (§10 Q3.7; owner `Q-26aR-06`)

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What is on this page

Every pattern family this stage allows appears here — Bullseye, Stripes, Checkerboard, Dots, Spiral, Sunburst, Single shape. They do not all appear at every distance, and that is deliberate: past the distance where a single big figure is already as wide as the sheet, the longer-distance versions would be the same drawing at the same size, so2 combinations on this page are not published. For a card that has to work from across a room, pick a repeating pattern: it crops at true scale, so its features keep the size the distance asks for.

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