Sympathy, Get Well & Thinking of You

Sympathy and get-well cards are the highest-stakes cards anyone sends. The wrong tone — too cheerful, too clinical, too solemn — can make the recipient feel less seen, not more. Every template in this category is built around restraint: a quiet front-of-card, a generous interior, and wording that defers to the relationship instead of trying to substitute for it. None of these cards will ever say "thinking of you during this difficult time" unless that is exactly what you mean.

Inside this category you'll find 8 distinct occasion pages, each one with curated wording samples in three lengths, a design-tip block calibrated to the occasion's tone, and a printable template preview sized for standard 5×7 card stock. Sender-craft enthusiasts may also enjoy our companion reading list on stationery and correspondence — a quiet handful of resources we return to when building this category.

The defining quality of the cards in Sympathy, Get Well & Thinking of You is what we call tonal restraint: every front-of-card design is opinionated about its visual direction, but every interior is left meaningfully blank. The mood across the category is restrained, sincere, never performative, and the palette below is the working color system we draw from when designing new templates for these occasions.