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Sixty-fifty in favor of the version A

Honestly you should probably pop in all your other courts before deciding on this one instance. I personally love the black border with this King but looking over your other courts gold would work out the best imho for the majority of illustrations. I'd also have to think that whatever border color you end up picking ends up being your full face color for your regular number cards so maybe look over how a full hand would look?

vasta41 wrote:My vote will always be to match the back border color with the front border color.

Either way it's going to be a killer deck but I could not agree more with vasta. You can keep the back design black and pop a gold border on it if you end up doing gold faces but whatever you end up doing make sure edging matches. (Just my own personal OCD lol).

Super pumped for these. Great job man.

I'll take a few decks of each, thanks.

I heartily vote version A. That gold is indeed sexy and unusual. The black seems plain.

IAmTheChin wrote:Honestly you should probably pop in all your other courts before deciding on this one instance. I personally love the black border with this King but looking over your other courts gold would work out the best imho for the majority of illustrations. I'd also have to think that whatever border color you end up picking ends up being your full face color for your regular number cards so maybe look over how a full hand would look?

vasta41 wrote:My vote will always be to match the back border color with the front border color.

Either way it's going to be a killer deck but I could not agree more with vasta. You can keep the back design black and pop a gold border on it if you end up doing gold faces but whatever you end up doing make sure edging matches. (Just my own personal OCD lol).

Super pumped for these. Great job man.

You make a good point about the number card face color matching the border of the courts, Alex.

Off topic: I can't freaking wait to receive Apothecary Part 2. Absolutely gorgeous campaign.

You lose the pop of the gold line on the hearts/diamonds whitish top part it looks great with the black border lower down so B for me.

Since the back color is black, I definitely prefer the front border to be black as well, so version B for sure.

Lorenzo, the choice is easy: B

HMMM.. hard decision
"A" looks really good at the KoD but does that gold border look good at all face cards ? especially for the red number cards.
I would like to see the deck with gold border, that would make this deck even more special.
On the other side i'm not a big fan of decks that have different borders for back and face cards then "B" would better.

Don't know. ABBABBAAAB

I like them both but I would prefer B

Azid wrote:HMMM.. hard decision
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Don't know. ABBA

The old Swedish rock group?

I vote B, just works better - I think.

Mike Ratledge wrote:

Azid wrote:HMMM.. hard decision
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Don't know. ABBA

The old Swedish rock group?

-BUSTED-

I vote B, was never a huge fan of borders.. I feel like the black makes it less obvious

I like A better than B

Bikefanatic wrote:I like A better than B

We're never going to agree on everything, but I suspect that the actual end result will be closer to "C" - i.e. somewhere in between or around the corner from A or B.

Make 2 decks, one of each!!

caramelo wrote:Make 2 decks, one of each!!

I like the way you think.

I think I will just leave it up to Lorenzo to decide the best border for the deck. He is a great artist and has never let me down. That said, A is still better

I'm against black in the first place, I think brightness and colour works in this deck's favour, so it has to be A for me!

Big change from the A or B vote. From his FB page, "Another one ready! gosh it is taking ageeees" :

Adonael wrote:I'm against black in the first place, I think brightness and colour works in this deck's favour, so it has to be A for me!

Good thing you didn't save this for Black History Month...

Hi all!
I might do both, it depends by the costs.
The plan is to finish the deck, make a couple of decision and get the quotations from the producers.

All options are open, but uspcc's imprecise registration scares me a bit.... I will see.

Here is a nice rendered fan by Nicolas Molines (Instagram)

Today I worked on the pips and even if I said that I wanted it indexless, I found this tarot-like layout that works quite well.
The standard index is gone of course, and there is no small pip under the number as you can see.
I let them "rest" for a while and work on the jokers and the rest.



As you know, this is not a functional deck. Of course you can play with it, but in another way. Poker players are going to pick another one among thousands of designs
To me is important to keep the design consistency, keeping readability and quality.
This old deck designed by Thomas Crehore made in circa 1820 was my starting point.

My most anticipated new deck purchase of the year. What a beautiful design. I can't wait for the campaign to start.

Hello!
another weekend is over and I more work to show: the ace of spades for the white version.
The one for the black version will be a bit different (just the layout).

I hope you like it. Disregard the printing resolution, it is my inkjet.

and here is the variant for the black version, called Cartomancer.
I improved the design, better readability with a night sky and more symmetry

Stockholm17 wrote:and here is the variant for the black version, called Cartomancer.
I improved the design, better readability with a night sky and more symmetry

Oh.

This... is... stunning.

WHEN ALREADY!?!?!??!

Jokers! golden background for the black version (Cartomancer), white background for the classic one (in white).
I am working on the tuckbox at the moment and on the campaign structure (rewards and prices). I am waiting for quotations and I hope I can launch in a month or so.

I hope you like them

I do!