Michael Everson scripsit:
Trump seems to mean something else in English these days.
Not really. In the game of tarot/tarocchi, which is a species of whist, there are a fixed set of trumps; in successor games using the standard deck, which suit is trumps is determined by one of a variety of procedures. "Major arcana" for pre-20th-century decks is anachronistic.
Nevertheless it is the modern term (in divinatory Tarot at least).
Your complaint that modern decks don't appear as fonts is a direct consequence of the copyright laws, since such fonts clearly infringe the copyrights on the decks.
Possibly. Possibly it's just devilish to draw such things. Certainly as modern icons, the Rider-Waite "glyphs" are best known. Perhaps not in the Francophonie; I don't know.
We're lucky to have the two Marseilles Tarot fonts at all, but the fact is that we do have them.
If we buy them. ;-) -- Michael Everson * * Everson Typography * * http://www.evertype.com
