The deck will be collectible, in order to comply with the regulations there will be only one print run of a maximum of 2500 copies (but only 111 copies come to life) and will never be reprinted again! The theme of the deck is printing, namely four-color printing (today we call this the CMYK color model). All decks in the world are printed by mixing these 4 colors, but not a single deck up to this point has been printed only with them, without mixing. The Lithographic Joker launched a machine to preserve and multiply knowledge, to make it cheaper and more accessible for all people. The motto of the deck is taken from the publishing house of Aldo Manutia – Festina lente (Act slowly). There are two jokers in the deck and they are identical, which is often critical for demonstrating tricks with replacement and disappearance. Linen Finish coating (yes, in Russia, you heard right), which creates an air gap between the cards and significantly increases the wear resistance, elasticity and slip of the deck. It is enough to remember the company Fontaine, the titan of the card world, which uses this coating, and all the questions will disappear. A new arrangement of suits on fosks and brisks (on cards from 2 to 10) is based on a narrow rhombus on a 10 with a 3-4-3 pattern. The main suits on the honers are made in halves one at a time, which doesn’t interfere with recognizing the face value of the card, but gives free space for the image, due to which it no longer seems to be “pressed” into the frames. The card becomes stylish, minimalistic and looks like nothing else. This is something that I can be proud of, and if it catches on, you know who was the first 😉 There are four indexes on each card, two standard and two small black, especially for left-handed people holding cards with a thumbs-out grip. All the models on the honers are my friends, real and wonderful people, painstakingly drawn and stylized as a card deck. There is a mirror symmetrical pattern on the backs. When the florish opens, the deck forms beautiful bands of CMYK colors. All the colors of the deck are intertwined on the Ace of Spades and create a pattern that symbolizes the knowledge that has become available thank to industrial printing, which is what the Lithographic Joker wanted to achieve by launching the printing press. Someone sees the crown of a tree with the leaves directed upwards in a general impulse, towards the light, someone sees swollen, ripe ears of wheat, and what will you see?