Feedback on custom CSQ cash set "The Paradox" (1 Viewer)

[paraDoxl]

A poker room owned by two physicians?

Sounds like the start of a great joke

But I'm no stranger to tinkering around with rotations - just in a different sense as I'm a software engineer

 

[paraDoxl]

Some more thoughts, some new results regarding chip colors and spot progression!
Note: Due to wild experimenting, the labels are incorrect here for the grey and the DG blue chip. Colors on the labels need adjustment too...

Denoms would be 5c - 20c - 1€ - 5€ - 20€

• Made a member chip with 1/2 pie resembling the emblem of my hometown. Artwork still missing
• Replaced 20c chip with a new grey chip. I probably would've preferred white, but I don't want to pay the additional fee for bright white and I had some samples where the brass flakes on the edges oxidised and turned green, so I probably don't want to risk that. Any experiences here?
• made the DG blue chip 20€ and the yellow one 5€
• made one pair of blurple spots dark green on the DG blue chip

As always, any feedback is appreciated!

 

[allforcharity]

I think you should try white background inlays on these.

 

[paraDoxl]

Toyed around some more, got a followup question: Do you think retro blue and (regular) green on the fourth chip (denoted 25, still haven't gotten around to put in some more work for the inlays ) would be to risky regarding dirty stacks? I have the feeling it might just be enough, but I figured I'd rather tap a bit more into the vast knowledge of this community

In general, I would like to keep the green/bright white edge spots, but I can imagine opting for regular blue, DG peacock or imperial blue on the body color for this chip. Probably in that order - imperial blue might just be too greenish for green edge spots and DG blue might just be a tad too bright for my liking...

 

[warma]

Hmmm…. The bright white in the “25” should help, but retro blue and black, in a dark environment are close.

 

[AlbinoDragon]

^^^ This. Retro blue is pretty dark when seen in person vs. the designer. If you have a well lit room you are going to be using these in, it might be OK, but I'd be careful. The spots might be the only thing that helps tell these apart on the table.

 

[paraDoxl]

Kind of what I've feared - thanks for the feedback. So I guess I'll just use regular blue there... And finally start with the inlay changes (background tesselation, bright and dark variants and size adjustments) Seems I've still got quite a bit of this journey ahead of me

 

[paraDoxl]

It has been quite a while since I last had time to work on this set, but I think I've (finally) settled on a color palette for the whole set I'm happy with. Can't really find time and motivation to finish the labels atm, but I'll get around to it at some point ^^

Currently, my sole concern remains the shade of green for the 500 edge spots. I've also tried dg green and light green instead of green:

Green:
+ I like the color the best (resembles hometown color the most)
+ best contrast with white part of edge spot
- worst contrast with blue body.
- I haven't found any blue chips with green edge spots in the Chip DB - might be a hint that this doesn't work well...

DG Green:
+ better contrast with body
- worse contrast with white part of edge spot
- color feels a bit too bright for me

Light Green:
+ better contrast with body
- worse contrast with white part of edge spot (but might be better than DG Green? Can't really decide based on the samples)
- color looks a bit too turquoise for my liking

With the sample chips I have, I'm heavily leaning towards green. Just would like to make sure I'm considering everything here, so if you guys have some more feedback here, I'd really appreciate it


Small note at the end: I've also experimented with inverting edge spot and body colors for the 5, and I think the chip itself might look even better than the red 5. But even though red is a signal color and would most likely reduce the chance of dirty stacks, I feel this still might be too close to the black 100. I might reconsider when finishing the labels, but currently, I'm also more fond of the red version. Again, feedback is welcome!