Card embossing

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It’s been mentioned before

Here is Monzo’s most recent responses:

Monzo investor card - design concept (By Brice Corbin)

It is so cool to see so many new ideas for Monzo cards! Thanks a lot for taking the time to do it To give a bit of an update, we’ve only recently started to work on what a new design system for what our cards should look like. Things like our future business banking will require new cards so we’re working on something that would allow us to create new “kinds” of cards in a sustainable and consistent way and without breaking any of the things that make our current cards great. …

Monzo investor card - design concept (By Brice Corbin)

Just to be clear, our current setup is 100% intentional. There are some easy-to-miss benefits in using good old OCR embossed type. One is to make the card camera-friendly (already commented before, maybe not that important of a reason anymore). It also makes instantly obvious what’s the front face of the card, which is important when you need the slot-in the card in an ATM or POS (even though some machines have now readers in both sides). Another one is that in some places (this happens abroad…