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Originally Posted by fhomess
Maybe I'm old, but I don't care much for many of the designs post 1990, with the exception of 2013 and 2014. Too many of the sets from 1997 to 2012 are too similar. I think the gold foil treatment that became so common is largely to blame. It's not an attractive design element, IMO, when used in the way that it's been used here. 2008 isn't bad, though. 1980 is one of my favorites.
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I very much agree. I stopped collecting with the 1990 set as I thought it was lame and I'm glad I did. There was a
tournament of the designs and the results there are pretty poor post 1989 as well.
I've always seen the 50s and 60s get a lot of love, but IMO the 70s and 80s had most of the best designs, especially 70,73-80,82-84,86-88. Looking at those in general I think the keys are plenty of white space with bright colours and easy to read text. They were doing so well. I wonder got into them.