Does this pattern for Jeu de Tarot (french tarot) exist in print?

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So, I just found some online French Tarot - The game of Tarot (yup, it has muck all to do with “dIvInAtIoN” or any of that BS, wiki it, or go to pagat site for full rules), simulator in this place, of all places. (Well, it is not quite solitaire, but you play against bots.
https://www.solitaireparadise.com/games_list/french-tarot.html

In most other places, real players are involved (maybe real blinga-ca$hinga, too?).
Regardless, I find this pattern very well drawn - it is not your typical eye-gore of modern online gaming, with primitive shapes, garish colours, and generic repeated copycat themes (man, are they coming from one apartment somewhere near 'focus group-R-us corp or something?)

Now, I wonder? Did they draw it themselves, or it that use some actual real print pattern?
In case you are not aware, playing cards have hundreds of patterns of their face cards. And no, I am not talking about generic photoshops of cars, pr0nstars or cartoon cats. Actual, real graphical time-honored patterns, most from XIX or XX century. Yeah, Anglosphere is kinda getting short end of the stick here - you guys almost only see just plain old pattern (called anglo-american, but many just call it ‘poker cards’, lol), and think of it as an only one.
Just look here https://www.wopc.co.uk/explore/suit/pattern-types/

Typically, the deck look like that https://www.wopc.co.uk/france/heron-french-tarot

But that game has a similar them, but more elaborate, well-made artwork. So does it exists in print, where to get, how much, etc, etc?

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Take this as an edit of first post. forum wouldn’t let me edit it, for some exotic reason… lol

So, I just found some online French Tarot - The game of Tarot (yup, it has muck all to do with “dIvInAtIoN” or any of that BS, wiki it, or go to pagat dot com site for full rules - it has like ALL the traditional playing card games), simulator in this odd place, of all places. (Well, it is not quite solitaire, but you play against bots.
https://www.solitaireparadise.com/games_list/french-tarot.html

In most other places, real players are involved (maybe real blinga-ca$hinga, too?, yup, gambling is an old habit of card games).
Regardless, I find this pattern very well drawn - it is not your typical eye-gore of modern web-based online gaming, with primitive shapes, garish colours, and generic repeated copycat themes (man, are they coming from one apartment somewhere near ‘focus group-R-us’ corp or something?)

Now, I wonder? Did they draw it themselves, or did they use some actual real print pattern?
In case you are not aware, playing cards have hundreds of patterns of their face cards. And no, I am not talking about generic photoshops of cars, pr0nstars or cartoon cats. Actual, real graphical time-honored traditional patterns, most from XIX or XX century. Yeah, Anglosphere is kinda getting the short end of the stick here - you guys almost only see just plain old pattern (called anglo-american, but many just call it ‘poker cards’, lol), and think of it as the only possible traditional one.
Just look here https://www.wopc.co.uk/explore/suit/pattern-types/

Typically, the tarot deck looks like that https://www.wopc.co.uk/france/heron-french-tarot

But that solitaire web-site game has a similar theme, but more elaborate, well-made artwork. I mean, did you see it? Too bad cards in hand are kinda obscured. So does a deck with this pattern exist in print, where to get one, how much is it, etc, etc?

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I think the “exotic” reason is that there is a time limit for editing to prevent people from changing text to say one thing when you originally said something totally different. Prevents much confusion (deliberate or otherwise).

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Ok, better save all historical copies of edits, but whatever.
I’d still prefer to discuss stuff than to discuss discussing, you know. :wink:

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If it some custom art rather than a mass-produced deck, you can certainly get a copy printed for, let’s say, around $20 but you will need to get your hands on high-quality image files (perhaps downloadable from the site?)

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I know that, but maybe someone doesn’t.
Still wonder. Yeah, the whole cow-pee-rites issue.
I wonder, how that style is called? Looks like AI to me, but maybe arist was just very original, mixing clothes styles from many eras together into a kinda anachronistic carnival.
Some drawings look like generated from photos or maybe traced. No idea. It is probably only made for computers.
As for contacting, noone responds, as usual.
But I managed to pull out the files.
In HTML5, the whole thing is loaded, and then manipulated - like cards can get shading , be turned, scaled twisted, etc.
Just digging into debug mode is too confusing, but just a simple about:cache visit in Firefox does the trick - if you look though stuff your browser loads, you can sometimes find it.
Here are those cards. I just didn’t want to hotlink it, it is viewable on click.
https://www.solitaireparadise.com/static/files/card/tarot/bundle/assets/images/cards_hd.png

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If you are going to use PNG images, the resolution at a bare minimum needs to be 300 dpi. Since a tarot card is going to be (approximately) 2½–2¾" by 4¾–5½" your linked images are of way too low resolution to be printed as-is.

If you know what you are doing as regards vectorizing and tracing bitmap images or AI superresolution tools, then of course you could create your own high-resolution card images based on it.