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Remove bold formatting?

Someone mentioned on my peer review for List of poker hands that the page uses too much boldface, and I have to say I agree. MOS:BOLD has a very specific list of things which require boldface, but this template seems to make a special exception for itself. Does anyone think that cards look better without boldface? For example:

Four of a kind, also known as quads, is a poker hand containing four cards of the same rank and one card of another rank (the kicker), such as 9♣ 9♠ 9♦ 9♥ J♥ ("four of a kind, nines").

Four of a kind, also known as quads, is a poker hand containing four cards of the same rank and one card of another rank (the kicker), such as 9♣ 9♠ 9♦ 9♥ J♥ ("four of a kind, nines").

Hpesoj00 (talk) 19:15, 13 August 2016 (UTC)[reply]

I have added a flag to turn off boldface, which I am now using in List of poker hands. Take a look at the page and let me know if you think it would be good to turn boldface off by default. Hpesoj00 (talk) 15:48, 14 August 2016 (UTC)[reply]

This does seem at odds with the set of card display templates for {{Clubs}}, {{Diamonds}}, etc, which don't use bold text. --Lord Belbury (talk) 17:27, 6 May 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Wrong suit_name output

When I employ the suit_name parameter to specify a card, with the rank_name parameter, its output doesn't read well. For example, {{cards |Js |rank_name=full |suit_name=full}} results in jack of spades, which should read "Jack of Spades". How can I get the output that I want? Dhtwiki (talk) 23:36, 23 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]

@Dhtwiki I corrected the format to follow MOS of both:

Planettop92 (talk) 00:45, 17 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Change of card art

Current

Suggested

Commons has some more traditional-looking card sets available. Would it be possible to swap the current set out in this template, perhaps to commons:Category:SVG English pattern playing cards? Belbury (talk) 10:15, 24 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]

I've now updated Template:Card to use the English pattern from Commons, creating the necessary joker cards for it. --Belbury (talk) 08:54, 12 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Dark Mode Accessibility

I notice that this template is designed to mark spades and clubs as black if the color is not explictly specified. However, this is a big accessibility problem when using dark mode on the web browser, as it's black text on a nearly black background. I was wondering what we could do to remedy this? My suggestion is to removed the hardcoded black color, allowing it to adapt based on the reader's preferences. However, I would like someone more experienced with template editing to tackle this task. TakodaOS (talk) 20:45, 19 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

I agree. This template is currently broken for dark mode. The fix you describe sounds reasonable: use the default font colour for black cards, not hardcoded black colour. Renaissance77 (talk) 06:58, 4 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

I tried it in my sandbox here: User:Ajaymatters/sandbox - Wikipedia. That removes the hardcoded color:black from Template:Cards/core, so the suit color now inherits from the theme and is visible in both light and dark modes.

The relevant change is to suppress the inline color:black unless spades_color or clubs_color is explicitly provided. I can submit an edit request, if that's fine? Ajaymatters (talk) 08:22, 6 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Rank-Suit vs Suit-Rank

As per Standard 52-card deck#Nomenclature, there should be a way to use this template from it's default Rank-Suit (e.g. 7♣︎) for poker, to using this template in Suit-Rank (e.g. ♠K) for bridge. 2600:8800:97:E200:5319:58E4:DA83:CA9E (talk) 22:11, 13 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]

suit-rank order is now supported Planettop92 (talk) 04:04, 8 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Semi-protected edit request on 15 September 2025

This edit request to Template:Cards/styles.css has been answered. Set the |answered= parameter to no to reactivate your request.

Please add lines:

html.skin-theme-clientpref-night .playingcards

and

html.skin-theme-clientpref-os .playingcards

to their respective blocks. Thank you. 2600:8800:97:E200:90C0:A24E:95B5:68DF (talk) 19:57, 15 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]

@2600:8800:97:E200:90C0:A24E:95B5:68DF done Planettop92 (talk) 00:53, 17 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]