Oblique Reserve · Metal Series 04
A card you can
A card you can
read with your thumb.
Fourteen grams of cold-rolled steel, foil-stamped and struck to 0.48 mm of relief. We kept the raised numerals when everyone else went flat — because a card should announce itself before you look down.
F or click to turn · Front
01 — Anatomy
Nine strikes, one plate.
Hover or focus a line to light the corresponding region on the card. Raised elements are struck from behind; flat elements are laser-etched.
02 — Finish
Foil is a decision, not a default.
Four stamping foils, applied to the same plate. Pick one and the card above re-skins live.
03 — Reverse
What the stripe actually says.
Three encoded tracks, read at 210 bits per inch. Nothing here is secret — that is rather the point.
| Track | Density | Charset | Field | Sample |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 / IATA | 210 bpi | Alphanumeric | Name + PAN | %B4917…^IVERS/M.E^ |
| 2 / ABA | 75 bpi | Numeric | PAN + expiry | ;4917063288451109=3011 |
| 3 / THRIFT | 210 bpi | Numeric | Issuer discretionary | +0410OBQCHE0004… |
04 — Issue
Strike your own line.
Type a name and it is struck onto the plate above in real time. Twenty-one characters, capitals only.