There’s no ‘almost’, it just does. I think Monzo’s standard cards look very dated, despite the flashy colour – which they haven’t even been able to print correctly depending on which manufacturer your card happens to be printed by. I know Monzo have been saying for over a year that they need to get through some stock of old discoloured cards, but I got one as recently as December that was just miserable.
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Agree.
Out of curiosity, what difference would it make if the numbers were on the front or the back?
I have the Kids’ HyperJar card and the numbers on the back of that are almost invisible to me. White text on bright yellow background 
I too suffer from that, tbf.
Have to keep moving the card around hoping the light will catch the digits at the right angle for me to read them 
I also think I may need some new reading glasses too though
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As a little experiment I’ve just rubbed the numbers on my new-ish card with my thumb. Three swipes and they were gone, leaving a white chalky stripe on my thumb. Maybe I just have particularly corrosive thumbs.
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That top one looks far too Revolut to my eyes.
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It looks fatastic… until you realise it’s upside down! 
I don’t like vertical cards because they are horizontal in a wallet so it looks the wrong way round. But clearly they go into card machines vertically so 
Guess that depends on your wallet. They work perfectly in mine.
Do card chips always have to be in the same place in the same orientation?
Especially on vertical cards, they just look odd and like an afterthought.
Yeah they’re some good points.
Like this card for example, is really nice but the chip ruins it. If it was central I could live with it but ideally it needs to be left aligned. Or better still on the rear of the card as suggested above.
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I have the normal Virgin Money one and it doesn’t bother me as much as I’d expect it to. It is obviously down to personal taste but I don’t think most people would care.
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If I had one it wouldn’t bother me either because I rarely use my card. It’s just something I noticed when going through all the card images in this topic.
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Is that your day-to-day wallet?
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I know it needs a sort out to be honest! The starling and virgin ones I don’t usually keep in there as I don’t use them, but put them there to try and illustrate that they look a bit daft in the wrong orientation.
The unidentifiable cards on the left are NHS organ and blood donor cards, Co-op membership and my University ID.
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The three spending cards in my wallet are Monzo Premium, Dozens Black and (hidden behind them) Nationwide Select Credit card. I’d forgotten how much I like the black/white understated colour scheme. It makes me calmer and feels more sophisticated.
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Usually, but I don’t think its left my desk for the last 6 months. Not usually that full and needs organising again.
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Anyone else think the Nationwide cards need updating? I might be wrong but the logo on them looks different to the one on their website which seems flatter.
Yeah the foiled visa logo means they don’t have to have the white dove/white dove hologram.
Is it some kind of authenticity mark then?