Dark as the night, this is the best typographic playing deck of the year

For some biographers he was the ultimate figure in literature. For others Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky was prone to drink and a gambler who wrote about men with even more anti-social tendencies than himself. “Sometimes”, they claim, “Dostoevsky gave little thought to what he wrote, especially when writing merely to settle gambling debts, he could write novels at incredible speeds, when he had to pay bills”. For the Fyodor in you who has another passion made of letterforms and the human nature, the United States Playing Card Co has come up with this beautifully designed typographic deck of playing cards built on a unique notion that we all hold a card within the playing card deck assigned to us based on the day we were born. Very similar to our zodiac sign suggesting personal characteristics and traits for those who hold that card this gambling weaponry bares its own typographic philosophy as each of the 54 cards within the deck are created through different distinct typographic designs with words suggesting the personality traits of those who are assigned to each card. Well, if Dostoyevsky had this deck in his hands he would never vow to never gamble again back in 1871. Yet it’s 2014, so gamble the odds with a meticulous typographic design focusing on form. pattern. type. and good luck with this Black Book of pure typographic craftsmanship.