Favorite Colors for tournament chips (4 Viewers)

[Ugghh77]

I was wondering what everyone's favorite base chip colors / color combinations were for the basic tournament chip denominations - $100,$500,$1,000,$5,000 and maybe $10,000 and $25,000, $100k

As far as I can see the traditonal colors are:

100 Black
500 Purple
1000 Yellow
5000 Pink or Grey

Depending on the how deep the purple I often find the 100s and 500s a bit too close together, also I like some of the brighter colors. Looking for some ideas for my next set and I am intrigued by the brighter colors like the Royals or some of the other non-traditional custom sets I have seen on the forum.

 

[BKisback]

As long as they don't clash and are denominated, I don't care too much. If they don't have values on them, some standardization of color (green 25, black 100) or color-distinctness among different chips is appreciated.

 

[BigGrizz]

5k Orange is extremely popular. Probably moreso than grey. Pink is pretty common but also used a lot for fracs.

Personally, I think standard colors are flawed. Black to purple is a rough transition where a lot of dirty stacks come from. I've thought that yellow and purple should be swapped so that hot and cold colors alternate.

 

[MC_CPA]

In order of colors I like:

Yellow $1k
Pink $5k
Orange or purple $500
Black $100
Green $25
Grey or light blue $25k

No reds unless $5. No whites unless $1.

 

[CdnBeerLover]

Orange T500 and pink T5000 can also cause dirty stacks in my experience. A host in our league uses the Prestige chips, and replaced his T5000 with plaques because of mixups.

Personally, I've had the least issues with the following
Green T25
Black T100
Light purple T500
Orange T1000
Yellow / Grey T5000

 

[ChaosRock]

Green T25
Black T100
Light Purple T500
Yellow T1K/T2K
Red T5K/T10K

 

[Taghkanic]

One of my big pet peeves is when Purple 500s are paired with Black 100s in a tourney set, but the shade of purple is too dark.

Even in good lighting, often the purple looks almost black, and you get lots of dirty stacks or messy pots which are hard to read.

The closest casino near me has chips like this for their tourneys, and it is always a problem.

So if people are going to use Purple 500s, I would suggest going with a lighter shade — more of a lavender than a blurple.

... On another note:

The first “real” game I played in was a home tournament, 2-3 tables, which used dice chips. They also used odd values on non-denomated chips: White 100s, Red 200s, Green 500s, Black 1Ks, then some yellows and pinks for higher values iirc. Several of the firehouse/VFW/Legion tournaments near me had the same scheme. Must've been a Hudson Valley thing? At the time there were no casinos in the region, so I didn't know any better when I bought my own first tourney set, which was white/red/green/black solids... Eventually I wised up.

 

[Ugghh77]

One of my big pet peeves is when Purple 500s are paired with Black 100s in a tourney set, but the shade of purple is too dark.

Even in good lighting, often the purple looks almost black, and you get lots of dirty stacks or messy pots which are hard to read.

The closest casino near me has chips like this for their tourneys, and it is always a problem.

So if people are going to use Purple 500s, I would suggest going with a lighter shade — more of a lavender than a blurple.

... On another note:

The first “real” game I played in was a home tournament, 2-3 tables, which used dice chips. They also used odd values on non-denomated chips: White 100s, Red 200s, Green 500s, Black 1Ks, then some yellows and pinks for higher values iirc. Several of the firehouse/VFW/Legion tournaments near me had the same scheme. Must've been a Hudson Valley thing? At the time there were no casinos in the region, so I didn't know any better when I bought my own first tourney set, which was white/red/green/black solids... Eventually I wised up.

This is exactly why I was asking - I have also run into the Black 100 / Purple 500 confusion !

 

[MeridianFC]

My custom tourney set:
25 Light Green
100 Black
500 Hot Pink
1000 Mustard Yellow
5000 Blue
25K Orange

Faro Dunes;
25 Light Green
100 White
500 Blurple
1000 Bright Ass Yellow
5000 Light Blue

Both of those I find work very well

 

[ef28]

One of my big pet peeves is when Purple 500s are paired with Black 100s in a tourney set, but the shade of purple is too dark.

Even in good lighting, often the purple looks almost black, and you get lots of dirty stacks or messy pots which are hard to read.

The closest casino near me has chips like this for their tourneys, and it is always a problem.

So if people are going to use Purple 500s, I would suggest going with a lighter shade — more of a lavender than a blurple.

... On another note:

The first “real” game I played in was a home tournament, 2-3 tables, which used dice chips. They also used odd values on non-denomated chips: White 100s, Red 200s, Green 500s, Black 1Ks, then some yellows and pinks for higher values iirc. Several of the firehouse/VFW/Legion tournaments near me had the same scheme. Must've been a Hudson Valley thing? At the time there were no casinos in the region, so I didn't know any better when I bought my own first tourney set, which was white/red/green/black solids... Eventually I wised up.

Good point. Glad I opted for a light grey as my 100 and purple for 500. Always thought a black 100 was the norm and didn't think about how it might clash with a darker purple.

 

[Himewad]

I went with blue (dayglo peacock) for my T500 chip/ excellent contrast between the black T100 and yellow T1000 in my set.

 

[Gunnar]

Where I’m from there is no official colors on anything. I like it to be honest the only problem is that one club has 500 light blue and 5k pink and the other one the opposite.

But the main objective of a tournament set is to have the chips different colors to avoid dirty stacks.

Here the currency is usually around 1$ = 100isk and people don’t want there cash sets to have same colors as the tournament sets. That in line with that we don’t have official or standard colors means that the colors here are quite random based on the taste of the creator.

Black is most often 100 or a high value chip
Green is very common as 25
Blue can be 500 - 5000 - 10000

 

[BigGrizz]

Damn. I love the design of those volcano valhalla chips. Bravo on that.

 

[Gunnar]

Damn. I love the design of those volcano valhalla chips. Bravo on that.

Thanks, I love them and really happy with how they came together

 

[LionPaladin88]

for me i would say that my favorite colors not just for tournament chips but chips in general are wild bright colors

my favorites are oranges, yellows and depending on the shade blues as well