The Fool — original, upscale & Astra Version

Left is live now: the 1909 colour scan that was already on the CDN, reached by the Color Version toggle. Centre is the earlier upscale. Right is the new Astra Version preview — accepted with disclosed artwork differences. Compare the linework, the caption, and the flower rosettes.

ShippedColour scan · img/ar00.jpg $0.00
The Fool, 1909 colour scan
300 × 519 native~32 KBJPEG, 3 components
Not shippedUpscale · gemini-3-pro-image $0.138 / card
The Fool, OpenRouter upscale
~782 × 13441.9 MB24.4 svia OpenRouter
PreviewAstra Version
The Fool, Astra Version; artwork differs from original
Preview 1 · artwork differs953 × 1650 · 2.18 MB
The Fool, greyscale thumbnail

For reference: what the tool showed before today

tn/ar00.jpg — 128 × 218, greyscale, 1 JPEG component. This is the line-drawing plate the reading tool has rendered since the 2000 original. The colour scan was one directory away the whole time.

What shipped, and what it cost

The Color Version toggle required no image generation. All 78 cards were already present in colour at img/ — verified by auditing every id across all three directories.

Set Size JPEG components Missing of 78 Use
tn/ 128 × 218 1 — greyscale 0 Original deck (default)
rev/ 128 × 218 1 — greyscale 0 Pre-rotated reversed cards
img/ 300 × 519 3 — colour 0 Color Version (new)
Reversed colour cards rotate in CSS. The colour printing exists upright only, so a reversed card reuses the same file with rotate-180 rather than a second generated asset. That makes upright and reversed identical art by construction — there is no second file to drift.

Earlier upscale benchmarks

Model Output Time Cost/card 78 cards
google/gemini-3-pro-image ~782 × 1344 24.4 s $0.138 $10.76
google/gemini-3.1-flash-image 1.5 MB 11.4 s $0.067 $5.23
openai/gpt-5.4-image-2 1.3 MB 105.0 s $0.230 $17.91
Astra Version contains AI-enhanced artwork. Accepted previews include visible differences from the archive scans. Open Card gallery to compare each preview with its original and read the difference notes. Original scans remain unchanged.