Card Workshop: User Feedback

I suspect that the picture just becomes an unrecognizable blob of brown and black. Simpler, where the outline of the important thing shows up with more contrast, would be better.

There's a lot of text, which is probably pretty small when printed. The worst is the word "Populating" which is medium blue on light blue. I can guarantee I wouldn't be able to read that in the real card size. The medium purple on light blue also has too little contrast. Make the blue background paler, and when using anything other than black on it, it should still be fairly close to black, and not be any shade of blue.

I assume that the tab headings -- Build, Huts, Order, Migration, Modify, Scouting Expedition -- are exactly the same on cards of this type? If so, it isn't that important that they are readable. If there are different words for different cards, then these need to have more contrast, too. You've made the gradient such that its darkest part is right where I need to see in order to read the words. You might consider reversing the gradient, so it's lighter in the middle and darker on the edges, and also just make it all paler.

I notice that you used a sans-serif font for the blocks of text, but a serif font for the tabs. This is typically backwards: Serifs help a person read larger amounts of text, but are unnecessary when there is only one or two words. However, both font choices are pretty readable, so I have no issue with them.

Less text, more contrast.

The card is very difficult to read as it is. It's too crowded and all sort of blends together.

I like that a lot better. For me the new card is easier to read and the simplified design is good. I like how the picture looks and moves into the text box, it is a good transition for me. I can read the text better and I like the green fading into the black