This article comes from Chao Jie, who often discovers interesting little tricks. The original post was published on: US Credit Card Guide

About high-resolution card images

When I was trying to find high-resolution card images before, I tried scanning the cards with a scanner. Since the card designs are printed onto the cards, the results looked pretty bad. And because the cards all have a chip, that also made the scans look ugly. Later, I found that the card artwork inside Apple Pay is very high resolution, which is excellent.

All Apple Pay card information is stored in the folder ~/Library/Passes/Cards/. Inside, you can see a bunch of .pkpass files, and each one corresponds to one card's information. So if you extract them, you're basically done.

Step-by-step instructions

First, you need a Mac with Touch ID (for example, a Mac Pro). Only this type of Mac can use Apple Pay. Add the cards you want to Apple Pay on the Mac. You can do this in System Preferences -> Wallet & Apple Pay.

Note: within a short period of time, AMEX cards can only be added 4 at a time on the same machine. So make sure you choose the cards you really want.

After adding all the cards, open the command line (Terminal.app). If you can't find it, just search for terminal directly in the APP interface.

Copy and paste the following code.

mkdir ~/Desktop/cards
files= (~/Library/Passes/Cards/*.pkpass/[email protected])
i=0
for f in "${files[@]}"; do
i=$( (i + 1 ) )
cp $f ~/Desktop/cards/$i.png

done

This code will automatically create a folder called cards on your desktop and place all of the card images from Apple Pay that are linked to your computer into it.

Here is a high-resolution card image of the AMEX Blue Biz Plus. There is nowhere else in the world where you can see the new card design this clearly.

High-resolution card image collection page

Recently, many cards have been redesigned, and after the redesign, we can no longer find the original high-resolution images. So we hope everyone will contribute and send in images of other cards.

We will post all of the card images we have collected so far here.

https://usccstrategy.com/credit-card-designs/

You can also find the card you want from the list and get its high-resolution card image.

Move your mouse over the corresponding card to see the high-resolution card image.