Universal Waite tarot deck

The Universal Waite tarot deck is based on the original line drawings by Pamela Colman Smith (it is not known whether Smith herself proposed the flat, slightly garish colours) that make up the well-known Rider-Waite deck. By popular demand, tarot illustrator Mary Hanson-Roberts, creator of the Hanson-Roberts tarot deck, was commissioned to produce a more subtly and attractively coloured rendition of the Rider-Waite deck. The Universal deck first appeared in the early 1990s.