New Halifax Current Account Design

EarthBoy

Rob5342 said:

That Lloyds one seems to be the best of the sideways cards as the Lloyds will show when it's in your wallet and when you take it out the chip will be at the front ready for a chip and pin machine.

Only if you're left handed!  Right handed people will put the card in our wallets with the chip on the left, so we won't see "Lloyds Bank" at all.  

WillPS

SirHugo said:

Received a new debit card from Lloyds two days ago. Very disappointed to see that it's still the old style design. 

Which account type do you have? Lloyds usually issue different card stocks depending on account types.

Presumably @jackjones01 this was for a Classic?

EarthBoy

SirHugo said:

Received a new debit card from Lloyds two days ago. Very disappointed to see that it's still the old style design. 

If they've only just released the new design they'll be using up all the old stock first, otherwise it would just be wasteful.  Most people won't get the new design straightaway.  

SirHugo

WillPS said:

Which account type do you have? Lloyds usually issue different card stocks depending on account types.

Just the standard Club Lloyds account. Actually only saw this thread today, my disappointment with the Lloyds card was after receiving my Halifax Reward account card a week ago. Not a big deal really though.

WillPS

TheElectricCow said:

Not a fan of this shift to the new flat design at all, I found the embossed numbers on the front much more helpful than the flat design with everything on the back.

I believe NatWest do (or at least previously did) continue to offer embossed ones for people who wanted them after they made the change. I was quite disappointed to find Halifax do not offer this when I requested one on accessibility grounds, as that’s the only bank who’s debit card I have much reason to use.

All banks will offer an accessible card design. Only Nationwide issue that design by default, AFAIK.

I'll be very glad to have no more embossed number cards (which look tatty very quickly as the foil wares off) in my wallet. My Natwest credit card and Spree prepaid card are the final holdouts.

oldagetraveller1

EarthBoy said:

Rob5342 said:

That Lloyds one seems to be the best of the sideways cards as the Lloyds will show when it's in your wallet and when you take it out the chip will be at the front ready for a chip and pin machine.

Only if you're left handed!  Right handed people will put the card in our wallets with the chip on the left, so we won't see "Lloyds Bank" at all.  

You beat me to it! I'm left handed so it's perfect. That is if the card is not upside down in the wallet.

GTR_King

My club Lloyds card runs out in August so hopefully 🤞 will have new design then

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I have to say I find a lot of these portrait card designs very boring, the formula seems to be slap the logo (or element of) in the middle and have some sort of flat or gradient coloured background and that's it.

I was quite the fan of the HSBC lions as it was something different and at least some thought went into it (for anyone that doesn't know, the HSBC lions are sculptures placed at their headquarter buildings since the 1920s).

I've recently received a replacement Halifax clarity card and it is a portrait design.

The matte finish feels quite nice in hand, I think when I first got the clarity card it was a matte finish and then on the reissue it was all shiny and showed the wear and tear a lot.

flaneurs_lobster

Barclay's still offer a personalised debit card for a tenner (free to Premier holders). 

https://www.barclays.co.uk/current-accounts/debit-cards/personalised-cards-faq/

Rob5342

EarthBoy said:

Rob5342 said:

That Lloyds one seems to be the best of the sideways cards as the Lloyds will show when it's in your wallet and when you take it out the chip will be at the front ready for a chip and pin machine.

Only if you're left handed!  Right handed people will put the card in our wallets with the chip on the left, so we won't see "Lloyds Bank" at all.  

I'm right handed and I always take the cards out with my left hand, my wife is the same.