![]() Thick lines, and recognizable shapes are always a plus. I don’t want that, you don’t want that, and whoever is playing with your cards will not want that. Thin lines won’t read well, and your aesthetic may get ruined. ![]() If you want to know more, go ahead and read up on it here. That’s just fine, there are decks with four separate colors for the suits… but I won’t be going into detail on this. “But what if I want all my suits to be a different color!?!?!” It is important that your colors match your theme, are recognizable, and compliment each other. Don’t make one suit orange and the other one red (unless they’re different enough to notice the difference at a glance.) The colors associated with the specific suits are there to help the player recognize quickly what card has been played, or drawn, etc. Use your knowledge of color theory when deciding the colors of your suits. Your deck of cards can be any color you want. The suits on a regular deck of cards are red and black. They should be recognizable and different, but mesh together and look like each belong to one another. Don’t break.ĭo keep in mind, if you change the suits really incorporate them into your theme. Playing cards are basically ingrained in our culture now, and as such they need to stay familiar enough to be playable, but different enough to be interesting… just bend. Something to keep in mind while making your deck is this: Bend, don’t break. There’s nothing wrong with your deck of cards containing Clubs, Diamonds, Hearts, and Spades, but what if you wanted to change them to fit your theme? One of the first and most important things to consider for your deck of cards are the suits. So technically, there are 55 pieces of art that go in to designing a deck. Oh wait, but the back of the card is its own design too… So, if you think about it, that’s 54 separate pieces of art! There are 54 cards in a traditional deck of cards. The four suits (Clubs, Diamonds, Hearts, and Spades).You choose.įirst, we need to really understand what all goes into a deck of cards. Illustrator is great because you need not worry about size issues too much, but Photoshop will work wonders as well. Working in Photoshop or Illustrator is probably the best idea for making your cards. The standard size of a poker card is a file with the dimensions of 2.74”x3.74” or 822x1122 pixels at 300 dpi. It’s vitally important that you stay consistent with the size, resolution, and margins of the kind of card you want to make. Setting up your aesthetic is more important, and will assist with making these cards fit in with the rest of your deck. * = Really it’s not too vital that these are done in this specific order, but they most certainly should be the last things you do. The arrangement of suits on your number cards.Try and work on your cards in an order like this: It’s easy to start working ahead, and then realize some things don’t fit or are off. It’s very important to try and have an order to what you do when building your own deck of cards. Making your own deck of playing cards sounds pretty simple, but there’s a lot that goes into designing a deck of cards. For my Introduction to Game Design class, my first assignment was to design a deck of playing cards.
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