Dark tabletop scene with stacks of sleeved fantasy trading cards, several loose black-and-gray custom cards with gothic artwork and small unreadable symbol text, a magnifying loupe, a metal ruler, and a grayscale-to-maroon color swatch strip.
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How to Keep Black Text Crisp on Dark Custom Card Designs

Learn how to preserve dark custom-card artwork without sacrificing rules-text clarity. This guide covers local contrast, text panels, opacity, type weight, keylines, black handling, and print proofing.