I quite like that one. Not a fan of the Mastercard logo though. Stands out way too much.
I agree, although to comment on Child & Co: they may have a fairly sophisticated style to their card now but a while ago it looked very tacky indeed - it just used to be a solid sparkly gold colour with gold embossing on the numbers.
It was supposed to evoke their heritage as goldsmiths, but really didn’t work.
I can’t find a picture of it now, unfortunately, but there did used to be some online.
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I doubt we are going to get any new design from the main banks any time soon considering they have all updated them recently.
I think my favourites are probably Santander, Royal Bank of Scotland, and Nationwide (Nationwide’s card looks a lot better in person imo). Despite this, I still don’t understand why RBS’s card is a beachhut.
I think my issue with the rest of them is that they are essentially all the same. The logo in the corner and then the symbol in the middle. It’s quite boring to be honest.
The worst has to be Natwest, closely followed by Starling.
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Good spot. Didn’t notice that it wasn’t there. Maybe on the back?
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It does seem odd that Natwest and RBS have gone for two completely different designs.
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Just waiting for Monzo to go for something like this now! Hot Coral card could do with a refresh I think…
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The only thing is that I wouldn’t really know what to do with it. I’m not the greatest fan of the colour but it seems to well known to change.
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I wouldn’t propose changing the colour, just the design!
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There already is a version of the hot coral design with numbers printed on the back and no embossing - the front is just 100% coral!
Unless I’m confusing something here, that design is now standard in the US?
All they need to do is bring it over here, which should be easy.
Also, on the RBS beach hut, I’ve posted some thoughts around that before but I suspect it’s quite likely deliberately putting “inoffensive stock photo” in the forefront and virtually hiding the RBS brand in an effort to “detoxify”. People think “financial crisis” when they hear RBS, even now, so they usually make great effort to refer to it as “the royal bank” or “Royal Bank of Scotland”, with the logo alone usually used as the shortened presentation.
Outside of Scotland, the RBS name is almost always downplayed completely, in favour of NatWest.
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Good points about RBS. The front of the card doesn’t even say the name of the bank on it, only the symbol.
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I’m not sure what you would do though. The obvious thing would be to make it portrait, but I’m not the greatest fan of most of them.
Is that NatWest debit card the upcoming Visa card? It’s absolutely disgusting.
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There’s been some cool Monzo concepts in this thread and I think the American version is a bit different?
Obviously there would be fan boys/card collectors that would want the new card but I do wonder if that even comes into it? Can’t be that many that would lie to get a new card.
It’s something I’ll never know the answer to but I’d love to see the data on “lost cards” from other banks when they’ve changed the design.
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Namely these… from Dribble
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The American version, currently, is just like the U.K. version except it doesn’t use embossed numbers - it uses printed numbers which are on the rear of the card.
The front of the card only includes the Chip, contactless logo, Mastercard logo, and the word debit alongside the distinctive Monzo wordmark.
It think that would be a decent refresh of the design, although the concept above looks great too and might be better in the longer term as most banks seem to be going portrait now.
Edit: Found it!
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56% of the votes are clearly by people from the NatWest Debit Card Design Team
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If you did a “blind test”, selecting people who were not NatWest customers and asking them which of the two cards they preferred (with no messaging attached), I’m sure you would get an overwhelming preference for the “old design” and comments along the lines of “more professional”.
Telling people what’s new and what’s old always skews results, as people feel they “should” like what’s new more.
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I don’t understand how they could approved that design. The colours are awful and the three lines on it are just messy. Probably the worst main card of a bank I’ve ever seen.
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Yes, I really have no idea why they decided to make the RBS card portrait but not the NatWest one too?
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