Date Cards
Press kit
Date Cards is a Belgium-based dating app where the first move is a real date. No swipe feed, no first message.
Everything journalists, researchers, and writers need to cover Date Cards: an overview, paste-ready boilerplate, brand assets, key facts, and direct contact. Built for working press on deadline.
The brand
The Date Cards logo is a wordmark, not an icon: the name is the mark. Two variants only: red on light, white on dark. The app icon is that same white wordmark on the brand red.
Do
- Keep the wordmark lowercase: “date cards”, never “Date Cards” in the logo.
- Leave clear space around it of at least the height of the “d”.
- Use white on photography or dark grounds, red on light ones.
Don't
- Recolour, slant, stretch or add a shadow to the wordmark.
- Place the red wordmark on a coloured ground or a busy photo.
- Re-set the logo in a different typeface.
Colour
One red carries the whole brand. Everything else is paper, ink and carbon.
- Brand red#F4123A
- Carbon#0F0D0C
- Ink#1A1613
- Paper#F7F3EC
- White#FFFFFF
Typography
Newsreader for display, italic on the accent word. Figtree for everything else. Both are free and available on Google Fonts.
Display · Newsreader
Someone has to ask.
Body · Figtree
Choose someone. Choose a place. Choose a time. Ask.
Brand assets
Click any file to download. Logos and icons are provided at the resolutions used on the live site. Request larger formats by email if needed.
Wordmark
The primary logo on a transparent background, in brand red and in white.
App icon
The red tile used on the App Store and Google Play, at three resolutions.
App screenshots
Discover, Date Card composer, and confirmation screens.
About Date Cards (paste-ready)
Three lengths, written to be copied directly into your article without editing.
One-liner (≤140 characters)
Short paragraph
Long paragraph
Date Cards is a Belgium-based dating app that rebuilds courtship around the act of proposing a real date. Users send a Date Card (a venue and three time slots offered to someone they actually want to meet) and skip the swipe-and-message loop. The recipient picks a slot, declines, or counter-proposes. The app's job is to disappear once the date is set.
Date Cards is built around three principles: in-person meetings are the goal, specificity is the discipline (one card a day), and privacy comes first (data hosted in the EU under GDPR, user behavior stays private). It is based in Brussels, in French, Dutch and English.
One-line overview
Short overview
Long overview
Date Cards is a Brussels-based dating app where the first move is a real date. Built between 2025 and 2026, it proposes a single rule: no swipe feed, no first message. You see someone, you propose a venue and three time slots, they say yes or no.
Brussels is home by design: dense, bilingual French and Dutch, and a natural European starting point. The app is built with a privacy-conscious architecture and data hosted in the European Union under GDPR.
Key facts
- Founded
- 2025
- HQ
- Belgium
- Launch market
- Brussels, Belgium
- Launch date
- 2026
- Languages at launch
- French, Dutch, English
- Team
- Independent studio
- Data residency
- European Union (GDPR)
- Press contact
- hello@getdatecards.com
- Website
- getdatecards.com
Topics we can speak to
Three areas for interviews, panels, or written contributions. Each topic includes a quotable sample: use it as background or pull it directly.
The loneliness epidemic
Loneliness has worsened steadily since 2010. Dating apps grew alongside that curve. Many users describe leaving them lonelier than they arrived. The question worth asking is what these apps optimize for: matches (the metric that drives revenue) or first dates (the metric that actually changes someone's life). Date Cards picks the second. Every product decision is measured against whether it shortens the distance between two people who'd like to meet.
Building a dating app in Brussels
Brussels is a strong launch market for a dating app: dense, bilingual French and Dutch, and a European city where privacy expectations run high. Designing for a privacy-conscious, GDPR-first audience was not a constraint, it was the product.
Product design as a public good
When most singles aged 25 to 40 use dating apps and most report dissatisfaction, the design choices of those apps become public concerns. They shape millions of people's social lives, mental health, and ability to form relationships. Date Cards is built on the premise that a dating app's success metric should be in-person meetings, measured in lives changed, and that the distance between that metric and screen-time is the distance between a product that helps and a product that extracts.
Press contact
Open to embargoed previews, off-the-record background, and quoted comments for stories on the loneliness epidemic, consumer tech, privacy-conscious product design, or launching a consumer dating app.
- Suggested subject
- [PRESS] [Your outlet] – [Topic]
- Response time
- Within 48 hours, weekdays
- Interview formats
- Video call, phone, written exchange
- Languages
- English, French