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Suggested I post a thread here with the family set my brother and I are looking into. The long and short of it is, we host home cash games at either my place, or his place. After in hand samples and mock ups, this is where we are at. Artwork may change some, not sure, but the chips themselves are pretty much a done deal. Thoughts?

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Too many repeat colors in a row and the inlay size are the only things I'd point out as of now, with the latter just being personal preference. Not saying I like the following, but just helping to visualize that a little rotation in colors goes a long way.
 

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Too many repeat colors in a row and the inlay size are the only things I'd point out as of now, with the latter just being personal preference. Not saying I like the following, but just helping to visualize that a little rotation in colors goes a long way.

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We like the repetition of color, with the bases being so vastly different in color it adds a cohesiveness to the set, in my mind anyway, we also like large ass labels. If I wanted a 7/8th inch label, I'd have made these in 1974
 
Did you forget the /s tag?

Not sarcasm at all - your $1s and $5s are too close in color scheme, and the $0.25s to an extent as well, so there will constantly be stragglers making dirty stacks.

Might be a problem for the $20s and the $50s too, though since it's your big chip, I assume you won't have as many $50s on the table for that one to be much of a problem in practice.
 
More like dirty stacks, but you didn't seem receptive to that very valid sentiment from @raynmanas.

Good luck.
Do you stack your chips by spot color? Here's what I've seen people dirty: purples and blacks when the purple is too deep, blues and greens when the hues are too similar. "Receptive" isn't the right word, he shared his concern, we do not see it as one, the largest spot/spot combo on the chip set is 1/2 total in width, and that spot is in two colors. The idea is that the base colors do the heavy lifting.


And come on with that "Good Luck." Comment man, it's a forum for sharing not passive aggressive snarkiness.
 
I like your design, $50 and $5 chip best.

There are too many chips with DG Peach and DG Peacock in a row. Also, your 50 and 20 could cause a dirty stack issue if on the table at the same time.

Have you ordered samples? I played around for weeks on the CPU only to find out that everything looks completely different in person versus on the cpu.

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Not sarcasm at all - your $1s and $5s are too close in color scheme, and the $0.25s to an extent as well, so there will constantly be stragglers making dirty stacks.

Might be a problem for the $20s and the $50s too, though since it's your big chip, I assume you won't have as many $50s on the table for that one to be much of a problem in practice.
I don't know man, I think a mostly pink, mostly blue and a mostly orange chip are pretty far apart to avoid confusion
 
I like your design, $50 and $5 chip best.

There are too many chips with DG Peach and DG Peacock in a row. Also, your 50 and 20 could cause a dirty stack issue if on the table at the same time.

Have you ordered samples? I played around for weeks on the CPU only to find out that everything looks completely different in person versus on the cpu.

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Yes we have had samples in hand and also kit bashed in spots as well.
 
I gotta be honest, with regards to people talking about dirty stacks, yes there are some common spot colors but... I think if you dirty these together you may need to have a eye appointment

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I don't know man, I think a mostly pink, mostly blue and a mostly orange chip are pretty far apart to avoid confusion

Please don't take offense, we are trying to help. These are going to set you back a pretty penny, so it's worth considering what is a fairly well-known issue around here before you pull the trigger. It's not the base colors or the spot sizes that matter - the shared and similar colors make it hard to notice an out-of-place chip in a stack when you are in the middle of a game. This will end up being an annoyance.

But I won't try to convince you any further.
 
I would consider making the $50 a $100. It’s more effective to keep 4-5x between each denom.
 
I like the designs so far, but there's definitely some merits to the dirty stack feedback. Threw this together really quick as an example.
DG Pink and Peach are surprisingly easy to get lost together, and the Peach spots on the $1 + the Peacock spots on the $5 contribute to some easily overlooked blending. Changing just the spot colors on one or both of those to not match the other could go a long way.

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But as always, you do you! I do think the colors are great.
 
I gotta be honest, with regards to people talking about dirty stacks, yes there are some common spot colors but... I think if you dirty these together you may need to have a eye appointment

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It seems you don't actually want feedback. Enjoy your set.
 
I would consider making the $50 a $100. It’s more effective to keep 4-5x between each denom.
I understand, but we'd actually like to get them in play from time to time, and how often are we going to have the chance to put a $100 chip in play in a $100 or $300 buy in cash game.
 
I love when people ask for "thoughts" and then shit all over them.

Your design is perfect. /s
Answering a criticism, with a legitimate answer isn't shitting all over someone, man. No, I don't treat myself or my players as children and perfectly expect them to stack chips without too much issue. I've seen some players love 25s in with 1s, it is usually just someone stacking quickly and has nothing or little to do with spot colors. Besides, we do let someone know when they have dirty stacks, there are 8 other players there watching each other
 
I understand, but we'd actually like to get them in play from time to time, and how often are we going to have the chance to put a $100 chip in play in a $100 or $300 buy in cash game.
At PCF. About 70% of them.....

The 1/1 table at DiD had racks in play. My .50/1 game will have a half barrel to a barrel out at the end of the night. Generally a 100-150 buy in.
 
I was going to say the same things as the others on here. The dirty stacks will be a thing with these. A good portion of the male population has some degree of color blindness also.

It's not the base colors, it's the repeating those colors in adjacent chip spots.

If you want more direct feedback, you could always post here: https://www.pokerchipforum.com/thre...will-brutally-eviscerate-it-with-words.94890/
I've seen you threads, sir. Why do you think there aren't any tri moons here?!
 
Too much green for my taste plus this looks quite expensive
 

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