Four Color Deck of Cards Sprite

[MikeIsHere]

Does anyone currently use a four color deck of cards sprite that they would be willing to share, or would someone be willing to create one?

Background: The four color deck is becoming popular because it is easier to see clubs from spades (which are currently both black). The four color deck is usually
Clubs - Green
Diamonds - Blue
Hearts - Red
Spades - Black

This is the current sprite I am using
https://imgur.com/a/hAr3Avc

I tried to change the colors in Gimp, put I don't know how it works, when I fill with Green the black turns more Olive (maybe it is combining the colors)
Also tried with MSPaint but it is hard when the black is really 3-4 shades of Black/Grey

[Tisaac]

Something like that ?

[MikeIsHere]

Great thank you. I will try to use this this week. The only feedback would be maybe on the green, that may be too light?

[Tisaac]

What about now ?

[Xom]

What a timely thread! I was looking for card back sprites to match our Hearts card sprites, and I noticed that these were the same sprites, despite the different sheet layout, so I investigated.

These sprites are identical to Susan Kare's famous card sprites for Microsoft Windows, except for two differences! One is that these are anti-aliased. The other is that the face card art and the ace of spades design have been replaced. (I haven't seen these card back or joker designs elsewhere. Other than those, these sprites are all over the place: we see them in Hearts on BGA, and I've also seen them on several academic webpages. (The original Windows had a variety of different card backs, and no jokers.)) I think the idea is that the remainder of the design is basic and fundamental and therefore not copyrightable.

Since these sprites are the same size as Kare's, the added anti-aliasing doesn't mean these sprites are resized from some original; rather, I believe these are the original resolution. That is, except for the face card art, which I suspect are resized from some other original, on the basis that the lines are not as distinct as they could be (although it could be a lot worse).

This suggests that we could replace the face card art again, then colorize the remainder of the design to a matching shade. The trouble is that 4-color cards are modern, so there's no old, out-of-copyright face card art for us to use. I found one guy, Adrian Kennard, who has made 4-color face cards for the public domain: https://www.me.uk/cards/ But his linework is thin and unlikely to look good when resized. I'll make a sample and be right back to post it anyway.

[Xom]

It looks better than I predicted. I'll do some more.

[Xom]

Wait, I got my images mixed up. This is Kennard's art. The green clothing highlights are not visible at this scale.

[Xom]

4-color card sprites

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[MikeIsHere]

Thank you both for working on this

[Draasill]

If you don't know, there is this project : http://svg-cards.sourceforge.net/

(download link is : https://sourceforge.net/projects/svg-cards/files/)

The cards being SVG, it's really easy to change colors here and there !