CPC Scrown cash set, the VERY beginning, colors (1 Viewer)

[FDLmold]

I'm going to make a CPC set at some point. I will use it to play both micro cash games (and up) and board games. Food Chain Magnate is one of my favorite games (so is Power Grid), so denominations up to $100 are necessary. I need nickels for a 5c/10c game, and I like having 5 denominations on the table. The 11 denominations, whatever you may think of them, are not negotiable. The $10 and $50 may get axed. The base colors must be weighted. Dayglo and retro are for edgespots! Here is what I've come up with so far, but I am definitely open to suggestions. The only color I am firm on is the 5c chip being purple. It is an homage to one of my favorite chips, the 5c TRK Embassy Club small crown. It is currently my avatar.

The way I have it now, the only chips that cannot be on the table at the same time are the 50c and $50, but the $50 is strictly for board games, so that will never happen. I think I have a theme. Edgespots are in the air, but anything that TRK did (like tri moon and 3v12) are favorites to be included. The micro game would have the lowest 7 denominations on the table. The board game would have the highest 7 denominations.

I suppose at this point I am looking for genius strokes of input. Is there a color or an order that would make this better, that sort of thing.

 

[bsdunbar1]

Did you get permission from @BonScot to use his artwork?

 

[FDLmold]

Did you get permission from @BonScot to use his artwork?

Working on it. I lowballed him with my first offer and he started calling me the c word. Negotiations are going well I'd say!

 

[Mr Winberg]

I lowballed him with my first offer and he started calling me the c word.

He called you a chipper?!?!? What a c*nt!

 

[RichMahogany]

Since you’re going Cali, I’d switch the colors of the $2 and the $10

 

[PlaidDragon]

Ooo! More scrown orders! I like your color choices but I’m definitely a fan of spots over solids. I look forward to watching this evolve.

My first customs have obviously been used for poker but recently were employed for a board game, Merchant of Venus. I like sets to be versatile.

I’m all for lots of denominations. My current scrown design will have 7 when I order in August.

—EDIT—
Don’t pass over the DG colors or bright white.

The brass flakes in canary and regular white can be a bit detracting on the edges.

 

[FDLmold]

There WILL be spots. Definitely not on the 5c and 10c chips though.

 

[detroitdad]

t I’m definitely a fan of spots over solids.

cuz you haven't played with the right solids yet?

 

[BonScot]

Did you get permission from @BonScot to use his artwork?

No he didn’t. My elite team of international art fraud lawyers are on the case...

 

[BonScot]

Working on it. I lowballed him with my first offer and he started calling me the c word. Negotiations are going well I'd say!

It’s all true. I called him a Canadian...

 

[PlaidDragon]

cuz you haven't played with the right solids yet?

I probably haven't...

But the closest I'll ever get to owning solids is probably along the lines of this:

...the current nickel candidate for my future scrowns.

 

[FDLmold]

Switching 2 and 10

 

[detroitdad]

I probably haven't...

But the closest I'll ever get to owning solids is probably along the lines of this:

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...the current nickel candidate for my future scrowns.

Add a third spot to that and it'll be money

 

[PlaidDragon]

Add a third spot to that and it'll be money

You're talking 1TA316? I might just do that.

(apologies to the O.P. for the hijack. I'll shut up now and admire what an awesome set you're building.)

 

[FDLmold]

No problem. Take a dump in my thread, I'll return the favor someday. Turds everywhere!

Kidding by the way. I think asymmetric spots are fugly, but I know a lot of people like them.

 

[asian bino]

1$ and 2$ now too close in color

 

[FDLmold]

1$ and 2$ now too close in color

I agree, if the chips stay solid. Edge spots and inlay text colors can change a LOT though.

If the blue tilts light and the green dark, you can't mix them up. And this is just unprofessional me with a surface pen and MS Paint 3D.

 

[PlaidDragon]

That green $2 would be perfect.

 

[FDLmold]

That green $2 would be perfect.

I'm a BIG fan of edgespots that are the same color as the base chip but a different shade. With some green on the inlay, you know that chip isn't just green, it is GREEN.

 

[FDLmold]

Thinking charcoal is better for the $20 than black now...

 

[FDLmold]

Farting around some more. Base colors are all weighted. The chips are level 0/0/1/1/2/2/2/2/4/4/4, which is affordable by CPC standards. Nothing final of course.

 

[PlaidDragon]

This is weird for me to say, but a grey solid dime I think would be pretty cool. I also like the butterscotch 50¢.

Dirty stack issue with the quarter/$10? Maybe the $1 and $20 as well?

 

[FDLmold]

I'm fixing both of those. Especially the 1 and 20, because they will be on the table at the same time a lot.
Gray solid dime is an homage. There are many many gray solid fractional chips in the world.

And the classic butterscotch fractional chip is...