Radiant Rider-Waite
Radiant recolored Rider-Waite maintaining historical accuracy with vibrant hues.
by Virginijus Poshkus · 1971
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The record
The new Radiant Rider-Waite Tarot is the latest offering in a long line of historically accurate decks from Stuart R. Kaplan based upon the illustrations of Pamela Colman Smith. For this very pretty new deck, the artist Virginijus Poshkus was selected to re-colour the drawings. Earlier work by Poshkus includes his brilliant depictions of flora and fauna for the 16-deck Natural World Playing Card Collection, also from U.S.Games. To describe the colouring of these cards as radiant is not an overstatement, as they are indeed shining and glowing, brilliant and luminous, and truly beaming with happiness. The cards have a clean, white border all around the images, with the numbers on the top in Roman numerals for the Major Arcana and spelled out in capital letters on the Minors. The titles and suits are in capital letters, in the same very pleasant typeface, also centred on the bottom of the cards. The cards themselves have a nice feel, as they are printed on good cardstock, and are plastic-coated and durable. They are easy to handle and shuffle, being sized at 2 3/4" by 4 3/4" overall. The packaging is in a standard size box, printed in complimentary hues of orange and blue to highlight
The cards
