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Two retro board themes — Index Card and Post-it

Two new themes, and they are not colour variations of the existing ones.

Index Card draws cards as ruled index cards, on a surface that looks like a desk rather than a screen. Post-it draws them as sticky notes.

There is a serious reason underneath the fun one. A lot of people ran their best boards on a wall with actual cards, and the thing they miss is not nostalgia, it is that a physical card is easier to hold in your head as an object. The skeuomorphic version gets closer to that than a flat rectangle does.

Both work with card density, drag-and-drop and every card feature. The card title gets its own row in these two themes, which is a small change that makes a handwritten-looking card legible instead of cramped.

One caveat, stated up front: these two themes are the weakest place in the product for contrast, and the higher-contrast accessibility setting does not currently reach the card borders they draw. If you rely on that setting, the other themes serve you better today. More on that in accessibility, and the difference between a claim and a measurement.