Bottom inlay text completely unrelated to the chip theme (2 Viewers)

[AlbinoDragon]

The "bottom text" you are considering is, IMO, trying too hard to emulate a chip that is intended for a thing that's not a chip for a custom/personal/home-game chip.

For my ASM/CPC custom chips, I've used the text you are considering exactly one time over six sets, (EDIT... twice... but again, only because I was clarifying a reference I was making in the design) and that was because they were a tribute set to a now-closed Vegas casino (or obscure reference in the second case..). The gaming commissions might require the location/state/city/manufacturer be included as part of the inlay design for casino security, but for a home-game chip, there's no requirement.

Trying to incorporate (force) an element into your design you don't need just because "all the casinos do it..." doesn't mean you have to do the same. At some level, you are cluttering up a design for no good reason.


No casino has "cash value" written on a chip that is worth 1:1 for real money, and at most, has a location, as required by law, on it.

Use that space for a useful/fun/interesting/relevant element to your design rather than forcing something into a limited design space simply because you see it used on the chips from a "real casino", or better, just don't put anything there at all.


More often than not, in designing a chip inlay, less is better than more.

 

[outshine1358]

 

[AlbinoDragon]

You have introduced "visual noise", and is only there because you want it to be there.

Lose it entirely or put the location of your game in those spaces.


It's a home game... who cares if it has cash value or if it doesn't? Home use, beach use, vacation/holiday use. Those are all words that make little impact to the design beyond putting something in a space where there was content on... oh, right... the Binion's WSOP chips from the early 1990s.


You are making custom chips... do something custom and original with that space.




[EDIT now that I've had a few minutes to think about my reply. I'm not trying to beat up on your design, nor am I trying to be a P.I.T.A., but so many folks here try to copy nearly one-to-one a chip when asking for advice around here. You have an empty canvas you can do absolutely anything with. Seize that canvas and do something that is 100% you, something you are passionate about, very much your group of players, and run with that.

Delete this design altogether and pick something radically different and run with that. I suspect in the end you will wind up with a set of custom chips that are not just fantastic, but also don't look like a copy of a copy for a copy's sake.]

 

[outshine1358]

You have introduced "visual noise", and is only there because you want it to be there.

Lose it entirely or put the location of your game in those spaces.


It's a home game... who cares if it has cash value or if it doesn't? Home use, beach use, vacation/holiday use. Those are all words that make little impact to the design beyond putting something in a space where there was content on... oh, right... the Binion's WSOP chips from the early 1990s.


You are making custom chips... do something custom and original with that space.




[EDIT now that I've had a few minutes to think about my reply. I'm not trying to beat up on your design, nor am I trying to be a P.I.T.A., but so many folks here try to copy nearly one-to-one a chip when asking for advice around here. You have an empty canvas you can do absolutely anything with. Seize that canvas and do something that is 100% you, something you are passionate about, very much your group of players, and run with that.

Delete this design altogether and pick something radically different and run with that. I suspect in the end you will wind up with a set of custom chips that are not just fantastic, but also don't look like a copy of a copy for a copy's sake.]

ur advise is 100% helpful to me, never felt disrespected so no worries.
I originally wanted it because the contrast really appealed to me for some reason, but my new draft probably won't include those filler words.

is it possible to fit a whole person into a 7/8 inch inlay while still making it easy to see? Need to wait for the chatgpt limit to reset but i plan to remove the table and bed, make the dress purple and make the outlines thicker

wanted the other inlay to look like a real life roman coin