Labels:text | font | screenshot | electric blue OCR: Early European playing cards were designed for the entertainment, and education of royalty. Their themes reflected medieval times. Today cards still depict the members of the royal court in medieval costume. It is believed that cards moved from Italy to Spain, supposedly because of improved design. Scholars assume that when one design is better than another, the superior is the later of the two. The Spanish design for the suits of swords and clubs is simpler - thus easier to read - than the Italian, in which the symbols are intertwined. Feminists should know that there were ( and are ) no queens in Italian, Spanish, or German playing cards. In each there are a king and two knights. Some believe that card games are essentially combative in nature and thus not in keeping with a woman's role as it was perceived in medieval times. The French replaced one knight with a queen, and queens remain in our deck now.
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