New fully customized pip designs!!
Hey Everyone, back again! Seems that I am averaging 2 blog posts per month instead of 4. I leave it up to you to let me know if that is a good thing or a bad thing 😋
Today I am talking about Pips. Maybe you heard me mention them before in some other posts. I will drop some more knowledge this time around. Pips are not the same thing as Suits. Pips are more of a general term, meaning that all suits are considered Pips. I won't get into too many details about Playing Card History - so the long story short is: after hundreds of years of evolution, today we use the French Suited playing cards. Other countries and cultures used various different suits and designs, but cards evolved to have a number of counters on each of the cards to represent the value - the Pips.
Because of this, the numbered cards are often called Pip cards. Pip has many different definitions, but Merriam Webster has one in particular: one of the dots used on dice and dominoes to indicate numerical value. And a side note: pips are also used to describe the number of moves it takes to move a backgammon piece to the end of the board 😊 The word has an unknown origin, but is thought to be derived from the Old English word Peep.
Anyway, I have probably bored you enough already (unless you are a fellow grammar or gaming nerd 😅).
So I made my own custom Suits to use on the Pip cards for future RSM Playing Card designs. The standard suits you seen on most playing cards are public domain, which is why they are reprinted so often. But these are like a signature mark for me. They are familiar enough to be easily recognizable. However, I designed them from the ground up so they are unique!
I started from the basic shapes - actually, they came from the standard Times New Roman font package in Microsoft Word. I overlaid some basic shapes so that I could standardized the design theme. I made them uniform and squared them up, so that all of the suits have the same dimensions. You can see the step by step process below, where I went from original suit to fully custom.
The end result is a subtle difference that turned out better than I expected! The best part is that no other cards will have the same suits that my future cards will have! It was a fun process as well, so I recommend that you designers out there do the same! Coming soon to pip cards near you 😉
Thanks for reading, and until next time!
☮♥RSM
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