For several years, I have now searched for the ideal generic poker chips for board games. After realizing that the newest attempt from Roxley (Iron Clays, see current Kickstarter campaign) will not meet my expectations, just like everything before, I started to design my own custom series.
Requirements for board games are a bit different than for Poker, please keep this in mind when looking at my designs. Many board games need some kind of money, but the necessary denominations vary a lot. Most commonly, you only need values between 1 and 10, but there are a lots of money transactions, so it is useful to have a denomination between 1 and 5, usually a 2, to avoid constant changing. The most common values for the cardboard money included in games is 1, 2, 5.
Some games, however, do not start with 1, but count in tens or hundreds, i.e. you could equally well need 100, 200, 500 instead of 1, 2, 5. In certain heavy economic games, you need a large numbers of different denominations because money transactions can range from a single to a few thousands of money units. A board game set has to account for every possible situation.
As a consequence, I decided that I need 10 denomination: 1, 2, 5, 10, 20, 50, 100, 200, 500, 2000 -- the full set which is also common in the 18xx train games genre. I wanted to be flexible for everything. (I omitted 1000 in favor of 2000 to get more range at the upper end). Usually, board games need 3-5 consecutive values -- somewhere in this series. For games with a large range of values, you could equally well leave every second denomination in the chip case, ending with the classic 1, 5, 20, 100, 500, 2000 series (or some part of it). Usually, you need a subset, but you do not know which one.
Designing 10 chips is not that easy. It decided for go for labels and use Apache Majestic Blanks as base. Here is my result:
All comment from the Poker Chip experts here in this forum are appreciated!
And let me add another question: Everything I did so far is designed with InkScape. This free program does not support CYMK, only RGB. How far is my way to something I can to use to contact a label manufacturer? Or do they accept SVG as input? Any advice on color reproduction?
BTW: Color blindness simulation (for Deuteranopia):
Requirements for board games are a bit different than for Poker, please keep this in mind when looking at my designs. Many board games need some kind of money, but the necessary denominations vary a lot. Most commonly, you only need values between 1 and 10, but there are a lots of money transactions, so it is useful to have a denomination between 1 and 5, usually a 2, to avoid constant changing. The most common values for the cardboard money included in games is 1, 2, 5.
Some games, however, do not start with 1, but count in tens or hundreds, i.e. you could equally well need 100, 200, 500 instead of 1, 2, 5. In certain heavy economic games, you need a large numbers of different denominations because money transactions can range from a single to a few thousands of money units. A board game set has to account for every possible situation.
As a consequence, I decided that I need 10 denomination: 1, 2, 5, 10, 20, 50, 100, 200, 500, 2000 -- the full set which is also common in the 18xx train games genre. I wanted to be flexible for everything. (I omitted 1000 in favor of 2000 to get more range at the upper end). Usually, board games need 3-5 consecutive values -- somewhere in this series. For games with a large range of values, you could equally well leave every second denomination in the chip case, ending with the classic 1, 5, 20, 100, 500, 2000 series (or some part of it). Usually, you need a subset, but you do not know which one.
Designing 10 chips is not that easy. It decided for go for labels and use Apache Majestic Blanks as base. Here is my result:
All comment from the Poker Chip experts here in this forum are appreciated!
And let me add another question: Everything I did so far is designed with InkScape. This free program does not support CYMK, only RGB. How far is my way to something I can to use to contact a label manufacturer? Or do they accept SVG as input? Any advice on color reproduction?
BTW: Color blindness simulation (for Deuteranopia):
