Check out this new deck of cards! (1 Viewer)

[Quad Johnson]

Useless minimalism is useless...

 

[Nex]

The back reminds me of a pic I found on a software developer's joke site recently.

There sure are plenty of hipsters who will buy that thing.

 

[Highli99]

Show us a flop!

 

[allforcharity]

 

[glom]

Terrible for those with poor vision as well. Can'e even rely on the pips to help identify the card.

 

[trigs]

Am I crazy for actually liking this deck? I am kind of OCD minimalist.

 

[Nex]

Minimalism is a nice thing, but you can overdo it.

Which is when the "oversimplification" (more fitting would be "overreduction") of something results in an actual decline of ease-of-use. This Dilbert comic comes to mind.
Here, the overreduction led to the removal of the symbol coding on each card. The brain is much faster to recognize symbols like spade, heart, diamond and club over their written-out names (the words must be read and made sense of where a symbol is immediately recognized by its shape), so this change makes the cards much harder to use. Same goes for the value labeling, which usually is just a single letter, which comes down to having the same properties as aforementioned symbols.

 

[allforcharity]

Am I crazy for actually liking this deck? I am kind of OCD minimalist.

It's not a clinical diagnosis, but yes, you are crazy

"Are you slow rolling?"
"No, I can't figure out what my hand is."
"Wait. What was the flop again?"
"Hey, I can't read that far!"

 

[trigs]

Minimalism is a nice thing, but you can overdo it.

Which is when the "oversimplification" (more fitting would be "overreduction") of something results in an actual decline of ease-of-use. This Dilbert comic comes to mind.
Here, the overreduction led to the removal of the symbol coding on each card. The brain is much faster to recognize symbols like spade, heart, diamond and club over their written-out names (the words must be read and made sense of where a symbol is immediately recognized by its shape), so this change makes the cards much harder to use. Same goes for the value labeling, which usually is just a single letter, which comes down to having the same properties as aforementioned symbols.

This is true. Makes me want a deck that has just two symbols on the card corners like "Ad" or "2s" with no pics or pips.

4 color suits would help too.