50 Cool Playing Cards That Will Make You Look Twice

With the help of computers and printers, we can now have our very own cool playing cards. Illustrations, hand drawings and even self-photos can now be used on the playing cards instead of the standard designs. That will only improve your enjoyment of the game.

If you have the basic ideas of the numbers and symbols in a deck of cards, then you'll be able to come up with personal styles for the cards. There are such a lot of artistic symbols that you can use that is easily drawn from various inspirations and sources, thus it's not a requirement to make use of the standard symbols like cloves, hearts, spades and diamonds. Don't suppose that these customization techniques would limit your creativity.

50 Cool Playing Cards That Will Make You Look Twice

50 Cool Playing Cards That Will Make You Look Twice

So today we round up some really unusual but cool playing card designs for your inspiration. Some of these take an advantage of custom illustrations, different shapes, and very creative design ideas. We will showcase 50 creative and cool playing card designs from various talented designers.

Creative and Cool Playing Card Designs That Will Inspire You

1. White Nautical Playing Card by Edo Huang via Edo Huang

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2. Egyptian Playing Cards via Trista Rathjens

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3. Royalty: Typographic Playing Cards via Chris Finn

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4. Baralho Tame Impala via Inara Magalhães

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5. Earth Fire Wind Water ©2012 via Paul Dersidan

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6. The Curator Deck via Emmanuel Jose

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7. WHIMSICAL PLAYING CARDS via Oksal Yesilok

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8. Art Deco Playing Cards via Rachel Groves

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9. Robocycle via Luke Bott

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10. Playing Cards "Fantastique" via Sveta Dorosheva

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11. Tungstene Playing Cards via Jacques Denain

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12. Fanangled Card Deck Kickstarter project via TunnelBravo

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13. P22 Type Specimen Playing Cards via P22 Type Foundry

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14. Monogrammed Playing Cards via kerri cordeiro

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15. Phoenix Apocalypse Playing Cards via David Frampton

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16. Decorative playing cards via Elena Sokolova

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17. "After Death" playing cards via Michele Ghisini

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18. HappyNewHeroes 2011 via Some Think Creative Group

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19. All work and no play ... via Karolien Pauly

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20. Handmade Spirograph Playing Cards Design via Rochelle Li

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21. Typographic Playing Cards via Junli Kato

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22. Playing with Manek Chowk via Jyoti Mann

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23. Cartas para jugar via Natalia Bedoya

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24. Fargo Poker Deck via Fargo

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25. Illustrated "Bratty Children" Playing Cards via Cerise Parr

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26. Even pirates play cards via Luca D'Onofrio

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27. Typographic Playing Cards via Elisa Wong

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28. Orchestra in a Box (Typographic playing cards) via Jessica Crotts

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29. Life Comes in #s. Playing cards Deck. via Daniel Dobleu

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30. Graphos Playing Cards via Michelle Lam

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31. Playing Cards via Alyssa Liegel

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32. Typographic Playing Cards via Christina Egan

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33. Nautical Playing Cards by Edo Huang via Edo Huang

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34. MUGHAL-E-AZAM PLAYING CARDS : COPYRIGHT: PLAY CLAN via pooja dhingra

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35. Radeberger Playing Cards via Graeme Offord

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36. Egyptian Playing Cards via Nicole Tarner

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37. Cirque Playing Cards via Michelle Ghiotti

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38. didot playing cards via Tatiana Lara

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39. Stranger & Stranger Ultimate Deck via Stranger Creative

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40. USE RUBBER AT NIGHT via shantanu suman

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41. Tree Type Playing Cards via kerri cordeiro

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42. Hansel and Gretel Playing Cards via Lee Jia Yin

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43. Cowboys & Indians via Lindsay Barnes

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44. Dr. Seuss Playing Cards via Mark Carnival

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45. 5 of spades - Creative Cards via Rubens Cantuni

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46. typographic playing cards via Christina Schmanske

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47. Futura Typographic Playing Cards via Amber Crawshaw

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48. Playing Cards - Typography via Cristiano Domingos

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49. Promotion: 52 Pickup via James Grieshaber

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50. Mustache Playing Cards - mustachecards.com via David Goldklang

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Tips For Designing Your Own Playing Cards

There are fifty-two cards in one deck, and it's up to you if your deck of customized playing cards will also have this number, or lesser. The type of card game that will be played using the deck of cards will affect this decision, since there are certain card games that may only be played using over fifty-two cards in the deck. You would be justified in having additional cards on your deck. If you are inventive enough, you'll be able to invent a card game using your cool set of playing cards that have additional cards that includes custom symbols, just when you customize your cards, ensure you follow the basic rules of playing cards, so that makes it simple for other to use the deck.