Patent ID: 7628336

Claim:
A transaction card comprising: a substrate defining a first surface, wherein the substrate includes an account identifier linking the transaction card to at least one of an account and a record, and the account identifier is machine readable by a point-of-sale terminal; a thermochromic feature portraying a character on a portion of the first surface, wherein the character is a being, and an outer perimeter of the character defines an outer perimeter of the thermochromic feature; and accent indicia printed over at least a portion of the thermochromic feature and having a thickness of between about 25 microns and about 50 microns to provide relief to the first surface of the substrate; wherein the thermochromic feature is configured to change between a first state and a second state when an actual temperature of the thermochromic feature reaches an activation temperature of the thermochromic feature, and wherein, in the first state, the thermochromic feature appears as a first color, and in the second state, the thermochromic feature presents at least one of a second color and a graphic not otherwise visible when the thermochromic feature is in the first state.