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PLAYINGCARDSAI

Custom playing cards drawn to your brief — 52 faces, the court cards, the pips and the back — delivered as print-ready files you own.

  • Full decks
  • Backs and faces
  • Print-ready files

What people commission

Four things we are usually asked for. If yours is none of them, describe it in the form and we will say whether it is a deck we can draw.

Full custom deck

The whole thing, from one brief: suits, numbers, court cards, jokers and a matching back.

  • 52 faces plus two jokers
  • Court cards consistent across all four suits
  • One card back and a tuck box layout
  • 300 dpi print files with bleed

Card back only

For people who like their faces standard and want the back to be theirs.

  • One finished back design
  • Mirrored so it reads the same either way up
  • Three colourways of the same drawing
  • Files sized to poker or bridge stock
Most asked for

Gift deck

A deck built around people: the court cards become the family, the team or the two of you.

  • Court cards drawn from photos you send
  • A name or date worked into the back
  • Readable indices so it still plays
  • Box label artwork

House deck

For a club, a bar, a game night or a shop that wants its own deck on the table.

  • Your marks replacing or framing the pips
  • Back designed to survive shuffling patterns
  • Matching cut cards and blanks
  • Files a printer can take without edits

Scope and cost are quoted per deck after we read your brief — nothing is charged before you have seen the style directions.

How the decks are made

Generated, then corrected by hand

The artwork is AI-generated from your brief. The parts a machine gets wrong — pip counts, index placement, suit colour — are fixed by hand before anything is sent to you.

Court cards that match each other

Kings, queens and jacks are built from one set of characters, so the four suits look like one deck instead of twelve separate pictures.

Still a deck you can play with

Indices stay legible at fan distance, red and black stay distinguishable, and the back is symmetrical so nobody reads it as a marked card.

Files a printer will accept

You get 300 dpi CMYK files with bleed and crop marks, sized to standard poker or bridge stock, plus PNGs for screens. The artwork is yours to print where you like.

Working with us

  1. You describe the deck

    A few lines in the form: who it is for, what it should look like, whether it needs to be playable at a table or sit on a shelf.

  2. Three style directions

    We come back with three sample cards in three different treatments. You pick one, or tell us what to take from each.

  3. The deck is drawn

    Faces, courts, jokers and the back are produced in the chosen style, then checked card by card for pips, indices and colour.

  4. Files delivered

    Print-ready files land with you, with the layout sized to the stock you are printing on. Revisions on the back and the courts are part of the job.

★★★★★
I asked for a deck for my brother's card group and sent one scruffy paragraph. The three directions came back and one of them was exactly the thing I couldn't describe.
Maren
★★★★★
We print our own decks, so what mattered was the files. Bleed was right, indices were right, the printer had no questions.
Theo
★★★★☆
The court cards from our photos took a round of changes to get right, which they expected. The back was perfect first time.
Suki

Tell us about the deck

Name, email and a line about what you want on the cards. That is enough to start.

  • Your brief goes to the person who will draw the deck.
  • We reply with questions and a scope, not a payment link.
  • The first thing you see is three style directions to choose from.