Playing cards in Unicode Playing cards in Unicode Unicode is a computing industry standard for the handling of fonts and symbols. Within it is a set of images depicting playing cards, and another depicting the French card suits. The Miscellaneous Symbols block contains the following, at U+2660–2667: Unicode 6.0 added images for: Minor Arcana Tarot, the 52 cards of the standard French deck, 4 Knights, a back of a card, and two for black and white (or red) jokers in the block U+1F0A0–1F0FF. Unicode 7.0 added a specific red joker and twenty-two generic trump cards with the reference description being not the Major Arcana
Italian playing cards the result of popular 16th and 17th century games like Primero and Ombre. These three patterns are closely related, having been formed in close proximity to one another. The Trentine pattern is believed to be the oldest surviving Italian pattern and the origin of the Bresciane and Bergamasche patterns. Trappola cards may also have originated from this pattern. Trentine cards are sold in either packs of 40 or 52. The smaller deck is missing the 8s through 10s. The larger deck comes with a pair of Jokers. All the Kings sit on thrones and the cards are not reversible. The