Card embossing

[Chapuys (Kevyn)]

@urban

No no no! I have an unembossed card and it looks cheap, almost fake. I can’t stand the things.

I hope the next iteration makes the Monzo card look more premium, not less. And to reiterate what @josh7 said - I’d also be happy to pay an upfront price for something like a metal card if that became an option.

Exactly.

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Its been mentioned many times the flaws in unembossed cards.

Thinner cards: unembossed

I had one of these with Halifax when I was a teenager with their Visa Electron card. Non-embossed with an etched printed card number with the words ‘ELECTRONIC USE ONLY’. The problem I had with the etched printed cards instead of the embossed ones was that the numbers would rub off/fade over time and become nearly illegible. I still have the account (although I don’t use it) and the numbers still rub/fade off. You can tilt it to the light to see the extremely subtle etching when they printed i…