A peek underneath the veil with my blog, Thoughts Betrayed

Fool bleed, I think, is the best effort in redesign we have so far - cards are looking godgeous.

So I would prefer that we'll not remove "left stripe" but instead remove all other "borders", maybe leaving just black border around the card (somehow it looks better on the table with the border).

Cost needed to be put highter (between name and the type) - it's invisible in current position at the lower left corner.

So the left part of the card will look like:
Name
stripe begins, with color coding type of card (with gradient for the card of different types)
Cost (both in blood/pool and clan/sect requirenments)
Then discipline level icons with corresponding effect on the same level in the text field, with types of effect written in words (nobody understand card type icons).
At the bottom of the card you can add minor effects (burn option) as well as flavour text (terrible flavour text is a different story).

Crypt cards, obviously, must have totally different layout.

For example disciplines on top, name verticaly on the left, some icon coding basic abilities (+bleed, +strength ets).

Yea, generally for permanents we need some icon coding (can be stolen) which can be seen across the table.

Green border in all cards is indeed rather, erm , unnecessary.
It would be way more helpful for play to have the card type color replacing it.

Looks workable.