finally had a minute to photograph & write up the etsy listing for the card deck!
The Big Type for Bad Eyes card deck is an edition of 71 letterpress-printed playing card decks, done entirely from handset type on a Vandercook Universal. It is designed especially for the vision-impaired, with standard card dimensions but large-type and minimal distraction. The ranks are printed in the corners in 48-point Nicholas Cochin Bold, and in the center from various large wood types, characters between 1 ¼ and 3 inches tall. The backs feature our favorite German-cast 2-color birds from the early 1900s, surrounded by a tiling of random letters from Nicholas Cochin Bold, Bernhard Gothic Medium, and Motto, sizes 18-48 point. Each deck comes in a recyclable clear box tied closed with ribbon, with a title card, a colophon, and two jokers. The jokers read: “My mother says she had to find a favorite thing about her eyesight. Hers is Misread Headlines.” My mother, who has macular degeneration, has generously and with good humor chosen six real examples of newspaper or advertisement headlines she has misread, making new phrases from some delightfully surreal alternate reality. Of the six headlines, please choose your favorite pair to go with your card deck and include your choice with your order! The various joker headlines are: • the Utility Fishstick • Savage Nuns • Won Leadership of the Gambling Party • Menace Promotions • 100% Off!!! • a Rewarding Year of Bilking Regardless of what pair you choose, one joker will be red and one will be black. Lastly, there are two available designs of bird for the back of the deck—matching but identifiably distinct, for the purposes of two-deck card games. If you would like 2 decks that differ, choose one deck of variation A and one of variation B.
