James Hoffman is a noted coffee expert, author and roaster based in the UK. He is also an avid cardist and former croupier. He united these two passions and launched a deck of cards in 2019. From his company, tens hundreds thousands: When it comes to tributes for the members of the coffee industry, we're upping the ante. We see your bet and raise you to Coffee Playing Cards. We doubled down and teamed with designers Jose Berrio and Julian Ardila to produce a beautiful deck of cards to capture the spirit and detail of coffee farmers, roasters and baristas. Printed on 310 gsm Sure Slip black core playing cardboard, these poker-sized cards are perfect for collectors, cardists and coffee lovers. Choose between green or yellow back cards, or even better, go all in and get them both. Do not fold on these decks. Limited edition, available only while supply lasts.

The Light Roast journey began two years ago, when I spontaneously sent the following sketch to a fellow web developer, Steve, and asked him if he can understand what they are! The very first draft of suit designs

Being into playing cards, Steve's short answer was "Yes, I see what you're trying to achieve, but it needs a lot of work!". Of course, he was right! From there, I went over many iterations to get to the design you are seeing now. Here are a few design goals and boundaries that I set for this project:

Use a single module for suits, e.g. only a square or only a triangle.

Avoid curves (yes I know, I have added circles to the background of back design, but I think they're acting as a good filler).

Minimize facial features to the barest possible. The moment I removed the eyes and I still could see a face there, was a YĕėĖĔśsŜ moment! :P

Have uniform skin tone and hair color per court family.

Have a non-traditional layout for number cards. In one of my many trials, I stacked up the suit symbols on top of each other, and I was hooked with the idea. Not only it gives a novel 3D-ish look and feel, but also if you flip through the number cards, you can see an animation effect, like the animated gif image above.

Make the numbers and letters visible and playable. I have some beautiful decks in my collection, but they're not very playable, because of either small or too graphical suit symbol and type design. Therefore, I designed mine to be very simple ,readable, and relatively large for better actual playing experience.

Reuse suit symbols for the back design. The back design is nothing but cutting, cloning, and arranging the suit symbols. The exceptions are the stretched diamonds and triangles, to match the standard card dimensions ratio, and the ripple circles, which is working as a filler.

Finally, I have added a very subtle cream-ish background color to the front side, for a more light-roasty experience!

I love the concept of crowdfunding and also playing cards. I own a growing collection of playing cards and have been a very active backer for crowdfunding projects (more than 30 projects on Kickstarter and Indiegogo so far). But this time I'm trying to be a creator instead, and it's been a big dream of mine for long time, so I really need your help to bring this dream to life!

KickStarter: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/imaginative-monkey/light-roast-playing-cards Full Deck Scan: https://cardscans.piwigo.com/index?/category/238-light_roast

This is Edo Huang’s official playing cards for his 2019 lecture tours. Edo has kindly give us the exclusive rights to his retail his deck when he was here in Singapore for his Magic Lecture on 27th July 2019. We only have a limited number of decks. Once gone it’s gone! Each decks you gonna receive contains: • Coffee Playing Cards (True linen B9 by Cartamundi) • Hand Numbered Tuck Box (only 300 decks available) • 100 gr arabica coffee beans ( you can brew it at home)