Not keen at all another one prefers the old purple card.
So, my Chase card arrived this morning. Loving the minimalist design and the flat blue colour.
Not used it yet but would be interesting to know whether the Mastercard logo on the rear of the card might cause acceptance problems (or at least a query) in stores. I remember the original Curve card had a contactless symbol on the rear and some shop staff were convinced the card wasn’t contactless at all - you had to prove that it was.
I’m not aware of any other UK card that has moved the network symbol to the rear face of the physical card (except Amex which often have their blue box on the back).
When have you ever had to show any card to a shop worker before tapping?
Most of the time the payment terminal is waiting for my card before they see it. I couldn’t care less if anyone else thinks my card isn’t contactless, because I know it is.
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I personally cannot recall a single incident, ever, where a shop worker has asked to see my debit card before tapping. Maybe I’m just lucky?..
I think most folks who frequent this forum by now know just how unexcitable I am. I genuinely actually couldn’t care less about card design. I’d be happy with a piece of blank plastic with the necessary chip embedded and let that be that. I don’t think I’ve ever fawned over a debit or credit card 
I’m just hoping when my Amex card comes up for renewal, that they get rid of the dumb embossed numbers.
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I was going to say the same.
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If only “sigh”
Surely in this day and age there is no need for embossed numbers on cards 
I’ve managed to thin my wallet out to just 2 now, My Nationwide credit card and my Amex card.
The recently redesigned British Airways Amex cards are “flat” designs with no embossed numbers (and the numbers on the back of the card) so this style may eventually be rolled out to all Amex cards.
I wouldn’t be surprised if it takes a while though!
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Yikes, that’s a bit big! Who signed that off?!
Is this really the joint card design we’ve waited a few years for? 
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Is it possible that this card is reserved for people with disclosed accessibility issues, e.g. poor eyesight, to aid identification of the card in their wallet?
Just a thought.
It would make sense, but then there are tweets like this…
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I just wish I hadn’t clicked that link….
Why are there dogs on that business card?
(That’s still the only good looking Starling card)
It looks from those photos like the new joint account card design also uses a darker teal than the old one?
@anon47616136 I really wish the personal account cards were dark navy! Why do most neobanks have to use whacky colours!
You’re right!
Spotted on Facebook this morning:
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I don’t know if it’s my monitor, but that card colour looks vomit green to me
Irrespective, although me and 'er don’t have a joint account with Starling, it’s good to see they’re finally differentiating between sole and joint debit cards.
I suggested mucous-green on the other forum…
Sorry, I didn’t actually see that. I have to be in a special sort of utter depression to read the other forum 
In a similar vein, someone on Starling’s Facebook post suggested chest infection green. Both seem fitting!
I dislike this new colour even more then the granny Peugeot teal 
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I actually don’t hate it. On that Twitter image posted yesterday it looks good, although I think that one had the saturation and contrast turned up a lot
In any case, it has more personality than the granny Peugeot green
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True, at least something about this redesign is positive! 