Making Custom SWCCG Cards
Making custom Star Wars CCG cards is the community practice of reconstructing, updating, and printing cards from high-resolution templates. People use them to remake cards in the modern look, fix bad scans, and print Playtest cards or Reflections Gold reconstructions.
The wiki hosts preservation copies of Bardez’s 600 DPI GIMP (.xcf) templates, first posted on r/starwarsccgalters on 7 May 2021.[1] They are free community work, not Decipher or Players Committee product. Credit Bardez (Reddit u/Bardez) when you use them.[2]
Credit and source folders
- Bardez — 600 DPI GIMP templates. Drive: SWCCG Templates.[3] Announcement: 600 DPI Templates (7 May 2021).[1]
- MPC print-ready hub — MPC Print Ready Cards — links to drives on r/starwarsccgalters (11 January 2021). That post indexes several Drive folders (print-ready cards, playtests, card backs).[4]
- IPFS mirror (community, from the 2021 thread):
ipfs://QmcyTrAxapWxJaqTnpPYDwsERJSHZGNdLairPM5WBi38cP
Size and fonts
Bardez's specification, from Card Fonts and dimensions.txt:[5]
- Total card size: 1632 × 2220 pixels (about 600 DPI at 63×88 mm / Euro poker, the English retail size).
- Title: Fiorello CG Condensed, 80 px, kerning 1.0
- Destiny: Akzidenz-Grotesk BQ Extended Medium, 80 px
- Lore: Akzidenz-Grotesk BQ Light Condensed, size 58, kerning 0.8
- Game text: Akzidenz-Grotesk BQ Condensed Medium, size 60, kerning 1.5
- Card type / Power / Ability: Akzidenz-Grotesk BQ Condensed (Ability kerning is fiddly: IL +1, ITY −1.3)
- Deploy / Forfeit: Fiorello CG Condensed, 70 px
- Parsec: Craft Gothic Heavy Expanded, 65 px
- Use typographic quotes
‘’ “”and the uniqueness bullet•in titles; in game text the square bullet is different.
The templates are GIMP .xcf layered files (GIMP is free). Photoshop users convert XCF→PSD. In 2021 Bardez called Light Side carbon scoring a separate layer problem.[1] Horizontal wide-vision / Enhanced templates were added later for some types.
A matching font pack is fonts.7z in the same folder. Expansion-symbol and icon layers live in Assets/.
How to use them
Open the template that matches the card type and side (Light or Dark). Replace the art layer, edit title / lore / game text, and export a print-ready PNG or PDF. Card backs are a separate template; this wiki also has no-text backs on Light Side and Dark Side.
These files are for reconstruction, playtest printing, and historical study. They are not a license to sell counterfeit Decipher product.
Template inventory
Every file in the Drive folder, linked to the copy hosted on the wiki. PNG rows also have a preview.
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Assets
| File | Size |
|---|---|
| Assets/Affiliations.xcf | 1.4 MB |
| Assets/Defensive Shield.xcf | 2.1 MB |
| Assets/Expansions.xcf | 770 KB |
| Assets/Rings.xcf | 944 KB |
| Assets/Skill Icons.xcf | 891 KB |
Related
- Custom formats — Hyperdrive and Rogue One draft
- Owen Strombeck — custom set Rogue One draft and format Hyperdrive
- Playtest cards — early Decipher tests from the same MPC Drive hub
- Card Layout — how to read a printed card
- Light Side / Dark Side — card backs
- V-slips — Players Committee print overlays for virtual cards
- Reflections Gold — cancelled 2001 reconstructions that use these templates
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 600 DPI Templates, u/Bardez, r/starwarsccgalters, 7 May 2021. Wayback
- ↑ u/Bardez, Reddit. Preserved copy: Internet Archive.
- ↑ Bardez SWCCG Templates on Google Drive. Wayback: requested; live folder remains the working copy.
- ↑ MPC Print Ready Cards, r/starwarsccgalters, 11 January 2021. Wayback 29 January 2021; archive.today
- ↑ Card Fonts and dimensions.txt, copied from the Bardez Drive folder (preserved copy).