Like crows, I like to collect shiny objects. I feather my nest and then line it with assorted baubles and trinkets and knickknacks. This means that I sometimes end up with small treasures in my possession.
One such "shiny object" that I have recently acquired is a deck of playing cards from P22 Type Foundry.
The deck of playing cards was part of a contest for designers to utilize typefaces from P22 and its subsidiary type foundries—International House of Fonts, Lanston Type Company, Rimmer Type Foundry, and the Sherwood Collection. The card design had to remain faithful to the fonts utilized as well as the historical rendering of particular cards—one-eyed Jack, suicide King, et cetera. The resultant cards are works of art in their own right, as well as an actual usable deck of playing cards.
I won't be playing poker or any other card games with mine. I just like to thumb through them and look at all the intricate details of the cards—serif fonts, sans serif fonts, ornaments, quotations, figures.
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The cards pictured above are ready to win chips and bragging rights for the player that lays them down in Tripoley.
The Eight of Spades is designed by James Grieshaber, using his Operina typeface from International House of Fonts.
The Nine of Spades is designed by Adam Bagerski, using the Albers typeface (designed by Richard Kegler) from P22 Type Foundry.
The Ten of Spades is designed by James Grieshaber, using his Numismatic typeface from International House of Fonts.
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You can preview all of the cards in the 2008 specimen playing card deck HERE.
You can preview all of the cards in the original 2004 specimen playing card deck HERE.
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