New Santander Zero CC Design 4 August 2020 at 12:10AM in Credit Cards 76 replies 8.5K views

funkycredit

Ordered an additional card for the wife and this turned up.... mine is the old style with huge Santander across the top. 

I know it's only a card but people like to discuss the look - thoughts on this then..?

D3xt3r5L4b

Looks awful.

Like that paint they put on cars to hide the shapes etc. on them. 

funkycredit

D3xt3r5L4b said:

Looks awful.

Like that paint they put on cars to hide the shapes etc. on them. 

The old one is awful but yea, agree, this is just bonkers. I don't get the branding at all. 

Maybe it's Ants car after he spills a pint on it....

WillPS

I think it looks pretty cool.

inspectorperez

Just hope this isn’t the beginning of an expensive rebranding exercise the bank can ill afford now that 1 2 3 is no longer relevant 

SuperAllyB

Looks like the pattern you scrape off with a coin to reveal your pin! Have you tried?

sleepyjones

Where's the long card number and all that stuff, is it all under that wee bit of paper?

Sandtree

Its not a pretty design but at least you can still use the card... AmEx have introduced their new metal cards which look the business but the contactless seems to be much worse. Normal plastic card can hover above the terminal by a cm or two and it reads fine, new metal card has to make contact or there is no chance... for some reason the TFL readers on the tube and London buses are the worst for reading them.

I'll take function over design any time... though the metal card will make a great scraper when things get icy.

Se1Lad

Is most of the detail (card number etc) on the back of the card?

ic

On my Curve card, the name, long number and dates are printed on the reverse.  The days of taking a card imprint are well and truly over, which frees up the design opportunities of the card.

Speedbird676

ic said:

On my Curve card, the name, long number and dates are printed on the reverse.  The days of taking a card imprint are well and truly over, which frees up the design opportunities of the card.

Are they?!

I was in a restaurant last year and they had a power cut. They eventually brought out the old "click clack" machine to take an imprint. The funny thing being I had to show the waiter how to use it!