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==Modern formats==
{{main article|List of traditional card and tile packs}}
{{See also|Playing card suit}}
{| class="wikitable"  style="text-align:center; float:right; margin-left: 1em;"
|+International playing card suits
|-
|scope="row"|[[Italian playing cards|Italian]]
|Cups<br/> [[Image:Seme coppe carte trevisane.svg|35x35px|center]]
|Coins<br/> [[Image:Seme denari carte trevisane.svg|35x35px|center]]
|Clubs<br/> [[Image:Seme bastoni carte trevisane.svg|35x35px|center]]
|Swords<br/> [[Image:Seme spade carte trevisane.svg|35x35px|center]]
|-
|scope="row"|[[Spanish-suited playing cards|Spanish]]
|Cups<br/> [[Image:Seme coppe carte spagnole.svg|35x35px|center]]
|Coins<br/> [[Image:Seme denari carte spagnole.svg|35x35px|center]]
|Clubs<br/> [[Image:Seme bastoni carte spagnole.svg|35x35px|center]]
|Swords<br/> [[Image:Seme spade carte spagnole.svg|35x35px|center]]
|-
|scope="row"|[[Portuguese-suited playing cards|Portuguese]]
|Cups<br/> [[Image:Seme coppe carte tarocco siciliano.svg|35x35px|center]]
|Coins<br/> [[Image:Seme denari carte tarocco siciliano.svg|35x35px|center]]
|Clubs<br/> [[Image:Seme bastoni carte tarocco siciliano.svg|35x35px|center]]
|Swords<br/> [[File:Seme spade carte tarocco siciliano.svg|35x35px|center]]
|-
|scope="row"|[[French-suited playing cards|French]]
|Hearts<br /> [[Image:SuitHearts.svg|35x35px|center]]
|Diamonds<br /> [[Image:SuitDiamonds.svg|35x35px|center]]
|Clubs<br /> [[Image:SuitClubs.svg|35x35px|center]]
|Spades<br /> [[Image:SuitSpades.svg|35x35px|center]]
|-
|scope="row"|[[German-suited playing cards|German]]
|Hearts<br/> [[Image:Bay herz.svg|35x35px|center]]
|Bells<br/> [[Image:Bay schellen.svg|35x35px|center]]
|Acorns<br/> [[Image:Bay eichel.svg|35x35px|center]]
|Leaves<br/> [[Image:Bay gras.svg|35x35px|center]]
|-
|scope="row"|[[Swiss-suited playing cards|Swiss]]
|Roses<br/> [[Image:RosendeutschschweizerBlatt.svg|35x35px|center]]
|Bells<br/> [[Image:SchellendeutschschweizerBlatt.svg|35x35px|center]]
|Acorns<br/> [[Image:EichelndeutschschweizerBlatt.svg|35x35px|center]]
|Shields<br/> [[Image:Bouclier jeu de carte.svg|35x35px|center]]
|}
Contemporary playing cards are grouped into three broad categories based on the suits they use: French, Latin, and Germanic. Latin suits are used in the closely related Spanish and Italian formats.  The Swiss-German suits are distinct enough to merit their subcategory. Excluding jokers and tarot trumps, the French 52-card deck preserves the number of cards in the original Mamluk deck, while Latin and Germanic decks average fewer. Latin decks usually drop the higher-valued pip cards, while Germanic decks drop the lower-valued ones.

Within suits, there are regional or national variations called "standard patterns." Because these patterns are in the [[public domain]], this allows multiple card manufacturers to recreate them.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://i-p-c-s.org/pattern/notes.html|title=Standard pattern notes|publisher=I-p-c-s.org|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181211052711/https://i-p-c-s.org/pattern/notes.html|archive-date=December 11, 2018|access-date=2015-05-10}}</ref> Pattern differences are most easily found in the face cards but the number of cards per deck, the use of numeric indices, or even minor shape and arrangement differences of the pips can be used to distinguish them. Some patterns have been around for hundreds of years. Jokers are not part of any pattern as they are a relatively recent invention and lack any standardized appearance so each publisher usually puts its own trademarked illustration into their decks. The wide variation of jokers has turned them into collectible items. Any card that bore the [[stamp duty]] like the [[ace of spades]] in England, the ace of clubs in France or the ace of coins in Italy are also collectible as that is where the manufacturer's logo is usually placed.

Typically, playing cards have indices printed in the upper-left and lower-right corners. While this design does not restrict which hand players hold their cards, some [[Bias against left-handed people|left-handed]] players may prefer to fan their cards in the opposite direction. Some designs exist with indices in all four corners.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.leftyslefthanded.com/Lefty_s_Left_Handed_Playing_Cards_p/607414.htm|title=Lefty's "Always right" double deck of playing cards|publisher=[[Lefty's]]}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/craigertiger/sinister-deck-the-left-handed-card-deck-with-famou|title=Sinister Deck: The Left-Handed Card Deck With Famous Lefties}}</ref>

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{{main article|French playing cards}}
[[File:Svg-cards-2.0.svg|left|thumb|52 French-suited playing cards with jokers, with honors marked in English]]
French decks come in a variety of patterns and deck sizes. The [[Standard 52-card deck|52-card deck]] is the most popular deck and includes 13 ranks of each suit with reversible "court" or face cards. Each suit includes an [[Ace (playing card)|ace]], depicting a single symbol of its suit, a king, queen, and jack, each depicted with a symbol of their suit; and ranks two through ten, with each card depicting that number of pips of its suit. As well as these 52 cards, commercial packs often include between one and six jokers, most often two.

Decks with fewer than 52 cards are known as [[stripped deck]]s. The [[piquet pack]] has all values from 2 through 6 in each suit removed for a total of 32 cards. It is popular in France, the [[Low Countries]], Central Europe and is used to play [[piquet]], [[belote]], [[bezique]] and [[Skat (card game)|skat]]. Values in Russian 36-card stripped deck (used to play [[durak]] and many other traditional games) range from 6 to 10. It is also used in the Sri Lankan, [[whist]]-based game known as ''omi''. Forty-card French suited packs are common in northwest Italy; these remove the 8s through 10s like Latin-suited decks. 24-card decks, removing 2s through 8s are also sold in Austria and Bavaria to play [[Schnapsen]].

A [[pinochle]] deck consists of two copies of a 24-card [[schnapsen]] deck, thus 48 cards.

The 78-card [[Tarot Nouveau]] adds the knight card between queens and jacks along with 21 numbered trumps and the unnumbered [[The Fool (Tarot card)|Fool]].