P22 Type Foundry Playing Cards

room

These are regrettably OOP but would have been fantastic:

http://www.p22.com/p22_2004/frames/cards.html

I think they sold out pretty quickly. They could reprint them, but they have decided to have a contest for a new deck of cards:

http://www.p22.com/cardcontest.html

I love their fonts, but they are too pricey for me.

These cards would be magic for using as an oracle. Think of the research into the type, art period, type designers etc. that you could incorporate into the mix.

Sigh. I'm always too late for the good stuff.
 

Bat Chicken

Basic graphic designer stuff. Good typography always impresses me.
I've bought fonts from these guys before - their type is actually cheap in my world.

The contest sounds like fun! Been drooling over the Gauguin face for awhile. Open Type is great....
 

room

Bat Chicken said:
their type is actually cheap in my world.

Oh absolutely. A single font is only $19.95 U.S. in many cases, and the sets are $30 to $50 or so. Much better than Adobe or ITC or some of the smaller specialty foundries.

My point was that they were too expensive for me.