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    CSG Ups Its Game with a New Label and Revised Grading Scale!

    in Ask CGC Cards – Sports

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    On 3/25/2022 at 1:31 PM, CGCRyan said:

    Just in time for The MINT Collective, CSG is delivering a one-two punch: a fresh label along with market-friendly updates to its grading scale.

    Certified Sports Guaranty® (CSG®) is excited to reveal its brand-new certification label! The bold yet refined design is the result of months of research and development, including market studies, focus groups and extensive testing. Green is gone in favor of a black, silver and gold palette that will complement — not compete with — the colors of any sports card.

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    They didn't really upgrade the slab. They just changed the design printed on the flip. The black borders with the hologram in the upper right corner and the yellow font is sharp. The curved corner grey-white text box, not so much. They should round off the interior corners of the white text box. Then they should cut down its height so that the white text box has the same length, but only goes up to about the bottom of where the number grade is currently. Then they should move the barcode and card number up, and change the font size of the grade number, while displaying it's condition (gem mint, mint, whatever), under it (or in another sharp configuration). And get rid of the dividing vertical line.
     
    They can then put a CSG holographic, silver and yellow, strip under the white text box that spans the length of the white box, in addition to the one in the upper left corner. Or some other cool design that adds to security and spans the length of the white box. Next step, they should get new molds and sharpen the corners on the slab (to about the curvature of a SGC slab). It would then be the sharpest slab in existence.
     
    The yellow and black really works well. But the large white text and rounded corners make it look like a child's toy. Curved corners work for coins, pokemon cards, comics, and money, but not for sports cards which emphasize sharpness.