Royalty Typographic playing cards are designed by Chris Finn. The main challenge of this project was to create a visual system that provides consistency through the whole set of cards. They are a consistent and solid group because they share visual features that unite them. The theme of the deck based on the design of the typeface (Centaur) is “Royalty”. Chris chose the colors Ruby, Emerald, Sapphire and Gold to represent the jewels and metals commonly found around royalty.
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Tags: art, Behance, cartes à jouer, Centaur, design, игральные карты, naipes, playing card collecting, playing cards, royalty, Spielkarte, typeface, typographic, Typographic Playing Cards
These playing cards are unusual and even unique. I classified them as “typographic” but it is a conditional classification. As a rule typographic playing cards mean playing cards with pictures on them composed of letters and numbers of a specific font (Arial, Verdana, Times New Roman, etc.). These playing cards are not concentrated on letters and a specific font. They are focused on mathematics and numbers.
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Tags: art, cartes à jouer, design, игральные карты, Mathematical Playing Cards, mathematics, naipes, playing card collecting, playing cards, Spielkarte, Stephen Wolfram, typographic, Typographic Playing Cards, Wolfram Alpha, Wolfram Research
PLAYING CARDS + ART = COLLECTING 