Do you have custom chips with modern/non-traditional fonts? (1 Viewer)

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I'm trying to designs my chips, write the name of the club on them, the denomination, etc.
Then whenever I show it to my wife, she says, "wow, nobody would read that font and the chips (font size) are too small".
I'm supposed to be using a Japanese brush inspired font, but now I'm having doubts.
Do you have examples of chips from real casinos or custom made ones that use modern or unusual fonts?
 
My custom chips use a font aptly (stereotypically?) named Egg Roll. I tried a couple fonts in the same vein, Chinese Dragon, Chop Suey, Night in Tokyo, Shojumaru, and I ended up with Egg Roll because it was the most legible at the size I wanted.

You can definitely use modern or unusual fonts, but you'll have to play around with proportions and layout to make sure they're legible.

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Edit: A live shot from last weekend, less closeup but still relatively easy to read in person:

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My sets don't, and I think you'll find most people and casinos try to stick to using fonts that are less ornate specifically for the reason you are struggling with... readability.

The inlay on a chip is going to be roughly one inch across (give or a take a smidge for the chip it's on). Whatever you have there in fine detail is likely to get lost once printed. It looks great on a screen but is tough to see when printed. I know my most recent custom set, I severely simplified my design as it was very quickly becoming cluttered and unreadable at arms length.

A good place with a lot of pictures of folks custom sets so you can see what others have done in the past is here:

https://www.pokerchipforum.com/thre...en-pr0n-now-with-pr0n-of-over-200-sets.13031/


It sounds like you are already doing this, but the best way to tell how your inlay design looks is always to print it at the size it will be on the final chip. Put it on a table where you expect to be playing the most and se how it looks from across the table, or even held out at arms length. You'll find a lot of things don't work too well once printed out.

Good luck! Inlay design has always been the part of designing a chip that has taken the longest for me. I have stacks of printouts from my most recent set that I get to use for scratch paper now!!
 
I saw a chip recently, Imperial Palace or Plaza, where some of the text on the chip were so thin they seemed to fade into the chip a bit, for me at least.

Edit: These are the chips: https://www.pokerchipforum.com/thre...aza-resort-official-group-buy-now-open.60393/ So I think these are based on a real casino, so maybe the design was trying to match that, but the denoms are a bit small, and the "Hotel" "Casino" "Theatre" must be pretty hard to read not up close.

If you have a mockup you're willing to share, you can probably get some good suggestions.
 
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There is 2 side of a chip, you can always had one side with the detail inlay and the other side with a clear and big denomination

The big denomination does help if you have elderly playing or you not using norm colour combination for the denom like $5 for white, $1 for red $25 for Pink etc
 
My custom chips use a font aptly (stereotypically?) named Egg Roll. I tried a couple fonts in the same vein, Chinese Dragon, Chop Suey, Night in Tokyo, Shojumaru, and I ended up with Egg Roll because it was the most legible at the size I wanted.

You can definitely use modern or unusual fonts, but you'll have to play around with proportions and layout to make sure they're legible.

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Edit: A live shot from last weekend, less closeup but still relatively easy to read in person:

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Who did those labels?

The colors with those chips, and the theme overall is something to be jealous of :)
 
Who did those labels?

The colors with those chips, and the theme overall is something to be jealous of :)

Thank you, I did! :) I designed it and then I printed on vinyl sticker, laminated, and cut using a Cricut. Yes, I was crazy to tackle that, but somehow I pulled it off, and it was very gratifying to create from scratch from start to finish.

He even had enough space to sneak in a coconut drink!

I was originally going to put something on the inlay to indicate it was a (fictional) restaurant/tiki bar, "Bar and Grill" or whatever, and put the "location" (Chinatown or Formosa) on the bottom of the inlay as is traditional (and I do that on the backside of the chip), but I decided to put the tropical drink to "show, don't tell".
 
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Thank you, I did! :) I designed it and then I printed on vinyl sticker, laminated, and cut using a Cricut. Yes, I was crazy to tackle that, but somehow I pulled it off, and it was very gratifying to create from scratch from start to finish.

SOURCE OF PRIDE AND JOY! Some people slap 80k worth of time and energy into Honda Civics! Others will straight up buy a car that’s half as fun as putting together that 10second Civic. Going for the “Ferrari” as many would say. That Ferrari will never match the thrill and joy of being able to put that home built project to use.

Ferrari’s have a resale value (still hard to sell depending on area), but that 10second Civic is gonna be priceless.

That’s awesome to hear brother. They came out amazing! Full of color and crisp clean lines! Do you have a procedure anywhere on PCF for how you did it?

ACTUALLY balling on a budget. Big ups.
 
SOURCE OF PRIDE AND JOY! Some people slap 80k worth of time and energy into Honda Civics! Others will straight up buy a car that’s half as fun as putting together that 10second Civic. Going for the “Ferrari” as many would say. That Ferrari will never match the thrill and joy of being able to put that home built project to use.

Ferrari’s have a resale value (still hard to sell depending on area), but that 10second Civic is gonna be priceless.

That’s awesome to hear brother. They came out amazing! Full of color and crisp clean lines! Do you have a procedure anywhere on PCF for how you did it?

ACTUALLY balling on a budget. Big ups.
Thanks for the kind words! I should probably write up my process and share it. Busy time of year right now, maybe I'll tackle that in the new year!

It's not that difficult, but there is a lot of trial and error involved, and wasted materials. Also, having the Cricut (my daughter's) helps tremendously; it would have been more frustrating to try to punch out the labels than have a machine that can do precise cuts (though the print-and-cut feature wastes a lot of space on the paper, and the vinyl sticker paper and the laminate aren't exactly cheap, but definitely not as costly as vendors).
 
Didn't mean for this to turn into a thread focused on my custom chips. Going back to OP. When you say you're "supposed to be using a Japanese brush inspired font", why is that? Is the theme Japanese or Asian in some way?

If you want to keep your design/club name under wraps, totally understandable, but can you give a rough sketch of what you're trying to do? Come up with a similar placeholder name that we can workshop. What fonts have you already tried?
 
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Bear in mind that it's okay to have details on a chip that can't be read from across the table, or even at arm's length. It's okay for some stuff to only be legible up close.

BUT

a) The denominations should be easily readable at most distances, definitely at least at arm's length, and

b) The chip should look attractive at all distances, regardless of the level of detail that's visible. If some element becomes too small at some distance to be easily distinguished, that element should not demand detailed attention at that distance but should instead gracefully become part of the visual background.

This can be a tricky design problem. :)
 
My custom chips use a font aptly (stereotypically?) named Egg Roll. I tried a couple fonts in the same vein, Chinese Dragon, Chop Suey, Night in Tokyo, Shojumaru, and I ended up with Egg Roll because it was the most legible at the size I wanted.

You can definitely use modern or unusual fonts, but you'll have to play around with proportions and layout to make sure they're legible.

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Edit: A live shot from last weekend, less closeup but still relatively easy to read in person:

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I like the Asian font. I might want to do a custom with a Easter Island Tiki mug. Not sure of the font so I had to find the best wording, might not be the most politically correct word. I went to fontspace.com and typed oriental font in the search box. I hope I didn't anger anyone. I am under the impression that you can say that about an object; not a person or the name of a country. and yes I know I am late to the party on this discussion.
 

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