What is the best Debit or Credit card design?

Lightning360

I admit this is a pointless discussion, but for some reason I am interested in what people find are the best looking cards.

The best one has to be the HSBC designs. All of them look so good. The colours work really well together and the lion looks so good. I might not like a lot about HSBC, but they do know how to design good debit/credit cards.
My least favourite is the Halifax one. Why did they decide that having a grey bar down the side would look good? It just looks ugly in my opinion.
I have accounts with both Nationwide and Santander. Both of their cards are simple but still look good in my opinion. Not the best, but not the worst.

Atlas234

Monzo for me, not so much a design but just the colour

EssexExile

I preferred them when they had pictures on.

Stuart_W

There used to be hundreds of designs to choose from, and pretty much every main charity had a credit card as a fundraiser. I quite liked some of the Woodland Trust's tree designs.
To be honest, though, if it actually gave a decent cashback rate like the olds days I'd quite happily use a credit card with a picture of a turd on it.

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Lightning360 said:

I admit this is a pointless discussion, but for some reason I am interested in what people find are the best looking cards.

The best one has to be the HSBC designs. All of them look so good. The colours work really well together and the lion looks so good. I might not like a lot about HSBC, but they do know how to design good debit/credit cards.
My least favourite is the Halifax one. Why did they decide that having a grey bar down the side would look good? It just looks ugly in my opinion.
I have accounts with both Nationwide and Santander. Both of their cards are simple but still look good in my opinion. Not the best, but not the worst.

These are my newest cards I have received recently

quirkydeptless

Lightning360 said:

My least favourite is the Halifax one.

I have a huge collection of Debit/Credit cards for, err hum, some reason.

HSBC Lion gets my top vote

I don't like the super brightly coloured Monzo card, need to wear shades for that. I'm also not a fan of the portrait orientation of Virgin Money and Starling.

For the worst one, M&S get my vote, who came up with this hidious monstrosity?

Lightning360

Deleted_User said:

Lightning360 said:

I admit this is a pointless discussion, but for some reason I am interested in what people find are the best looking cards.

The best one has to be the HSBC designs. All of them look so good. The colours work really well together and the lion looks so good. I might not like a lot about HSBC, but they do know how to design good debit/credit cards.
My least favourite is the Halifax one. Why did they decide that having a grey bar down the side would look good? It just looks ugly in my opinion.
I have accounts with both Nationwide and Santander. Both of their cards are simple but still look good in my opinion. Not the best, but not the worst.

These are my newest cards I have received recently

Those Halifax ones are definitely better than this Debit Card from them.


Vertical cards are certainly becoming more common although I'm not sure I am 100% won over by them yet.
I am actually loving that Santander card! Simple but unique. Love it!

BrownTrout

Who remenbers National & Provincial which i believe offered picture cards many moons ago

Lightning360

quirkydeptless said:

Lightning360 said:

My least favourite is the Halifax one.

I have a huge collection of Debit/Credit cards for, err hum, some reason.

HSBC Lion gets my top vote

I don't like the super brightly coloured Monzo card, need to wear shades for that. I'm also not a fan of the portrait orientation of Virgin Money and Starling.

For the worst one, M&S get my vote, who came up with this hidious monstrosity?

That M&S card is a mess. What were they thinking when they came up with that?!

I think the problem with portrait cards for me is that they are too small. It sounds a bit strange but for me, things that small don't look quite right in portrait.

williewonder

I quite like the Nationwide Flex-Plus debit card. 

Lightning360

williewonder said:

I quite like the Nationwide Flex-Plus debit card. 

I'm not a fan of it being silver/grey. I just find it a bit boring.