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Standard colors for 5 and 25 cents? (2 Viewers)

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Hello,
I know US casinos tend to use:
  • white for 1,
  • red for 5,
  • green for 25,
  • black for 100 and so on...
But what about 5 cent and 25 cent chips? Is there any standard colors? If not, what do you recommend?

DISCLAIMER: I'm sorry if the topic has already been discussed but I cannot find the thread on the forum...
 
There doesn’t seem to be any sort of color standard. Closest I’ve seen to a standard for fracs from casinos, is hot stamps solids.
 
A bunch of the Cali card rooms use red or pink for the frac, since the $5 is yellow.
 
BGinGA posted in a different thread that green is used for the .50 some with red/pink/orange as the .25.

I used the red frac in my CPC Cali set
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Casinos in Atlantic City used blue for the $10 chip and 50c chip. I wouldn't use a $10 chip so I use blue for the 25c chip.
I believe only two casinos (Atlantic Club and Resorts) in AC had 25c or 50c chips. Those two places, to my knowledge, did not have a $10 chip.
 
There may be a few places left with quarters, but otherwise neither chip really exists in U.S. casinos these days.

A quick check by denomination on the Chip Guide site (link to query page) shows a lot of tokens and off-white chips for nickels.

The quarters are all over the place, in terms of color. It’s not a complete database or anything, but still fun to search sometimes.

With fracs, it’s usually a matter which colors are (1) not used already and (2) fit well with the set.

Gray, pink, yellow, and orange seem to get a lot of love, and I can think of peach, purple, and blue examples as well.

If the other demons are non-standard colors then white, red, or black can work too.

Have I mentioned all the colors yet?
 
Thanks for the answers! I'm building a set for my micro stakes home cash games (as discussed on my other thread) and, I don't know why, I like to follow the standards ;-)
I really like the idea of using hot stamped for the 5 and 25 cents but I'm in a limbo regarding the colors (I honestly wish I could skip the 5 cents denomination but my friends absolutely want to stick to our usual 5/10 cents games...)
 
Blue and Yellow should fit best if you're using traditional colors for the rest. I personally went with CPC Blue and Butterscotch for the 25c/5c in my traditional colored set.

Barely any home game needs a $1000 chip, so yellow is up for grabs just like blue.
 
rowlin said:
A quick check by denomination on the Chip Guide site (link to query page) shows a lot of tokens and off-white chips for nickels.
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O man thank you for the link! This website is amazing!

Nex said:
Blue and Yellow should fit best if you're using traditional colors for the rest. I personally went with CPC Blue and Butterscotch for the 25c/5c in my traditional colored set.

Barely any home game needs a $1000 chip, so yellow is up for grabs just like blue.
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@Nex I see you live relatively close to me! If you have a micro stake cash game set to sell, I could be interested! Don't hesitate to contact me if it's the case!
 
A lot will depend on your $1 (and $5 if your game gets that high), but I like to keep the 25¢ and the 5¢ in the same color family as the 25 and 5. Therefore, my choice for 5¢ chips are Orange or Pink (derivatives of red) and the 25¢ chips are Blue or a Light Green (derivatives of green).
 
Poker Zombie said:
A lot will depend on your $1 (and $5 if your game gets that high), but I like to keep the 25¢ and the 5¢ in the same color family as the 25 and 5. Therefore, my choice for 5¢ chips are Orange or Pink (derivatives of red) and the 25¢ chips are Blue or a Light Green (derivatives of green).
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I think it's a great idea (y) :thumbsup:
 
Fracs tend to be solid colours. For people who don't/can't find a large enough set of casino-used hot stamped quarters, they will usually try an overlabel with an unlaminated sticker by @Gear. I reckon it's a significant part of his business (frac stickers)!
 
Ezra said:
Hello,
I know US casinos tend to use:
  • white for 1,
  • red for 5,
  • green for 25,
  • black for 100 and so on...
But what about 5 cent and 25 cent chips? Is there any standard colors? If not, what do you recommend?

DISCLAIMER: I'm sorry if the topic has already been discussed but I cannot find the thread on the forum...
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As some have said, .50 are commonly pink and most were used to pay blackjack 3-2. I usually play in AC if I go to a casino and have not seen an actual frac chip in 20 years...but then I don’t go looking for them. I have seen a lot of .50 coins in dealer racks over the years. Also $2.50 chips in pink at Borgata.

My point is get what ever you like and don’t worry about colors for fracs.
 
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The only casino quarters I have seen we're at Mystic Lake, they were tan and specific for use on blackjack commission for the "dollar blackjack" promotion.

http://www.themogh.org/cg_chip2.php?id=MNPLML

I don't go there often, but I wish I harvested one when I had the chance, guess they just use standard quarters now.

But brown seems to be the choice in 25c chips, Brybelly did a lot of stock sets with brown quarters.

Personally I think pink nickels are where it's at :).

But pick what you like. Just remember quarters will have to coexist with ones and fives, and nickels with quarters and dollars, so choose your colors wisely.

But pink and brown strike me as safe choices, though Brybelly's use of Brown quarters and gray dollars I found a little tough to separate in pots.

#TeamBlueDollar
 
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Going away from specific color recommendations...

When designing a set, you really only want to make sure none of your chips' denoms can be mistaken for another. You want easily distinguishable base colors in addition to well distinguishable spot patterns (and colors).

Given white, red, green and black are already used in an average traditional colors set, the rest is free to take.

I personally would stay away from brown though as it can be too close to black - keep in mind that lighting conditions at the table is not always the best. Bright pink should also be a fairly safe choice for home games as well, unless you plan to expand your set to be able to do snapper limit games.
 
Nex said:
I personally would stay away from brown though as it can be too close to black
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Well bear in mind quarters and hundreds would never be in the same game, assuming standard black hundreds of course. But I would agree, brown and black would be a combination to avoid.

For these stakes, I doubt the op would even have to make hundreds.
 
They probably won't, but I still wouldn't put two nearly identical looking chips into the same set even if they are far apart.
But you don't have to be that much focused on avoiding similarities when both denoms have three or more other denoms inbetween like in your example.
 
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JustinInMN said:
For these stakes, I doubt the op would even have to make hundreds.
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Maybe, but maybe not. 5c/10c is kind of at the very low end of the spectrum, so the game upgrading to 10c/25c or 25c/50c in the near future is very possible. While you might still not need $100s for 25c/50c games that have enough smaller chips, the next bigger stake could already tap into them.

I think it makes sense to reserve the $100 color in any set, even if you don't order a $100 for starters. Stakes don't need to become particularly high for $100s to be useful or even required, and if you already used black or a similar color on a frac, you'll have to replace a lot of chips or go with a non-traditionally colored $100.

$500 chips and up though I guess is a good choice to "steal" the color from. By the time your stakes have risen so high that your set really needs $500s, you certainly won't need any more fracs, and even if you occasionally still want to run low stakes games with them, you'll have the money to replace them. Plus, with traditional colors for $500, rolling with a pink $500 is not a too far astray choice if you actually used lavender/purple for a frac already.
 
My ideal breakdown would be:
200*5c
200*25c
200*1€
100*5€
Like that we can play 5/10c and 25/25c (and I like to have full racks)
 
I had 4 colors made with my mardi gras and went with the burgundy and lavender. With my castle cardrooms I went with gray and blue and later added a green nickel to replace the gray one.
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Only live casino quarters I've seen lately are the three Detroit casinos (all orange) and the Southern Indiana Horseshoe (sky blue).

In most states, specific chip denomination colors are either mandated by gaming regulations (NJ, MO, MI, etc.) or must be approved (NV, CA, etc.).
 

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