CPC custom: Pirate Circle - your opinion before weighing anchor! (1 Viewer)

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Ahoy Pirates,

A deadline is the procrastinator’s best friend!
With CPC’s announcement, I am finally getting my custom orders on the move.
The first order will be a cash game set, and after hours and hours of amateur design exploration, and a few gallons of rhum, I’ve come down to two alternates.
Looking for your opinion here


Context: Le Cercle Pirate (The Pirate Circle)
Nine years ago I had my beautiful dining/poker table made by Jarque (full history here), so obviously the chips will match it, with a pirate themed set.

What’s for sure:

• Diamond square mold, hands down my favorite.
• Five different chips, values 0.25 / 1 / 5 / 20
• Base & edge spot colors most probably won't change.

Prefered version of each chip is top row, with bottom row as a very strong alternate.

Now my hesitations:

Quater & Dollar: Helm & Skull
Edge spot progression on those two work together.
The quarter evokes sea colors.
I like the first 4A14 version more, but in the second version the 614A spots mirror the spokes of the illustration.
The dollar evokes a skull's colors, but I couldnt convince myself to use it as an illustration, I chose an anchor.
If the quarter is a 614A, it would make sense to use 614 for the dollar, but I think 414 is simpler.

Fiver: Treasure Island’s Sunset
I love both with a slight preference for the first 4A12. Might depend on the look of the Dollar.
Also, I'd love to use a 3TRIM chip, and the $5 is the only one that can support 3 different edge colors. I used 3trim on the tiger NCV, but there might be split issues using a DG color. If that's the case I might use it on the $5.

Twenty: Bloody Night

This will be the rebuy chip so I love asking for more « barrels »
The second design with the diver is slightly off-theme, but I think it looks awesome.
Love both, will be a tough call.

NCV: Kraken!
No big issues with this one.
Would love it on a 3TRIM, but 4A14 is nice too.
Will be used as a $100, or a frac alternate when I want some tigers on the felt.

So, waddaya sailors think ?

 

[JeepologyOffroad]

Love the table.

David can give more insight, but I’d worry about the text showing up with that thickness, especially on shaped inlays, as the art for those will need to be resized quite a bit smaller to fit within the guidelines.

 

[Fran]

It's a beautiful project you've got here
A comment on the inlays, I think you should use a thicker font for better legibility.

 

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Love the table.

David can give more insight, but I’d worry about the text showing up with that thickness, especially on shaped inlays, as the art for those will need to be resized quite a bit smaller to fit within the guidelines.

It's a beautiful project you've got here
A comment on the inlays, I think you should use a thicker font for better legibility.

Thanks for your feedback.
Here's a quick new test. Would it work better?
I also tried a skull design

 

[Labrat]

And everything is spelled wrong.

 

[Phoe9x]

Do you have a color sample? DG Saturn is a controversial color choice.

I agree with legibility concerns with your font and font size chosen.

Quarter and dollar:
Would you be able to swap the two ideas? Skull as quarter and 414 edges, helm as dollar with 614 pattern? That way you have better edge spot progression and you can get the helm idea created.

Five:
I’m a sucker for 412 > tri moon. With DG Saturn info earlier, would it be possible to try a red instead of the DG Saturn?

twenty:
I love how much this stands out. Not much from my side, I think it rounds out the set well

NCV:
I don’t think this really fits in with the set. Everything already is pretty one toned, and this comes out of left field with orange and purple. Maybe a green chip might help?

 

[Cratty]

Love the new version!

 

[Phoe9x]

The NCV is a kraken, so maybe purple would work better than green… oops

 

[Aggie930]

For the Kraken, eight spots for the tenacles?

 

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For the Kraken, eight spots for the tenacles?

A bit too busy?

 

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Do you have a color sample? DG Saturn is a controversial color choice.

I'm one of the few Saturn lovers (I have a sample).

Quarter and dollar:
Would you be able to swap the two ideas? Skull as quarter and 414 edges, helm as dollar with 614 pattern? That way you have better edge spot progression and you can get the helm idea created.

It's a very good idea but I really need a white $1 chip. I own 10+ poker sets and don't have a single white dollar

Five:
I’m a sucker for 412 > tri moon. With DG Saturn info earlier, would it be possible to try a red instead of the DG Saturn?

eheh nope

NCV:
I don’t think this really fits in with the set. Everything already is pretty one toned, and this comes out of left field with orange and purple. Maybe a green chip might help?

The NCV is a kraken, so maybe purple would work better than green… oops

You're quite right. I considered Blurple but I'm also working on a second set where Blurple will be the main $1 chip, so I'd rather use another color to use as many different colors as possible.
I don't really like CPC's greens, except Dark Green but it would be a bit dull next to the black $20.

 

[Cratty]

A bit too busy?
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Might be too much blue in the set... but it is ocean themed...

 

[SwissChip]

Nice Project - and a cool table!
What about a € set?

Les pirates français joue avec des euros, non?

 

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Might be too much blue in the set... but it is ocean themed...

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Wow that's beautiful!

 

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Nice Project - and a cool table!
What about a € set?

Les pirates français joue avec des euros, non?

I should find a way to represent a monetary symbol for ducats, doubloons or reales

 

[Phoe9x]

It's a very good idea but I really need a white $1 chip. I own 10+ poker sets and don't have a single white dollar

Maybe just switch the inlay ideas then? Anchor for the quarters and helm for the dollars, then you can still have your white dollar.

 

[Phoe9x]

I don't really like CPC's greens, except Dark Green

Also so sad light green is such a beautiful color.

 

[mipevi]

This is a cool project, some first impressions (hopefully constructive criticism LOL):
- an intricate font like the one used for Cercle Pirate is always tough to pull off like this, I would prefer it in a straight line or possibly divided on two lines
- the $5 chip doesn't seem to pop as much as the others, when using just analogous colors I like to mix darker and lighter ones for contrast
- how about adding a third color to the $20, to make the set more cohesive
- having a shaped inlay for just the $5 and black background on the $20 seems a bit quirky but fun, though I would consider shaped inlays at least for the $1 as well, perhaps even for the frac
- who doesn't like green, I've often read on PCF that it's the best chip

 

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This is a cool project, some first impressions (hopefully constructive criticism LOL):

Thanks for your input!

- an intricate font like the one used for Cercle Pirate is always tough to pull off like this, I would prefer it in a straight line or possibly divided on two lines

I tried a new version on a straight line.

- the $5 chip doesn't seem to pop as much as the others, when using just analogous colors I like to mix darker and lighter ones for contrast

Arc yellow will pop Maybe the parrot is not strong enough. I tried an alternate.

- how about adding a third color to the $20, to make the set more cohesive

I love the black / tiger combo. Very powerful and directly inspired by this one (I played with it and fell in love) :

- having a shaped inlay for just the $5 and black background on the $20 seems a bit quirky but fun, though I would consider shaped inlays at least for the $1 as well, perhaps even for the frac

I don't like shaped inlay that much, except for Ska. And price is a consideration as well
But I'll consider using COG on the $1 if the helm becomes the $1.

 

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Well you all helped me a lot.
But now there are a lot of options
Here's where I'm at.

Version 1A:
nothing new here.

Version 1B:
Using a skull as $1, a diver for the $20, and trying a blue NCV.

Version 1C:
Switching anchor & helm for a more coherent spot progression.

Version 1D:
Another spots variation on .25/$1

Then I tried a different path and designed a second version with "Cercle Pirate" on a straight line.

Version 2A:
Using the same boat on all chips, with waves designed on the same partern as my table cloth.

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Version 2B:
Same wave design, using the original illustrations.

Version 2C:
No wave, just the illustrations with a cut.

My eyes are quite blurry now, I can't see which version works better...

 

[Cratty]

1C but swap the NCV chip with 1B (unless you ever intend to use the NCV as a 5c.. then just go 1C).

Edit.. 2C is growing more on me...

 

[Phoe9x]

I like 1C with the 1B NCV chip

 

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@Cratty I just realised you are currently designing a pirate themed set. Very nice job, I love it!

 

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Edit.. 2C is growing more on me...

It grew strong on me overnight!