Early Design Draft (1 Viewer)

[Anpansam]

Hello! I am a new member who came across this site while looking for images of CPC's scroll mold chips, and have not stopped reading, looking at the great pictures since. I'm blown away at all of the expertise and of course the amazing collections here.

I was hoping some folks might be willing to give feedback on the set I've been designing. My goal is to incorporate some of the local birds in my area, and although I won't be adding denominations I did want the colors to at least vaguely suggest a 1, 5, 25, 100, 500, 1000 progression. It's still rough, and will need some adjusting once I have color samples to look at, but below are two versions, depending on my final budget. Any thoughts, concerns, criticisms? Please don't hold back . . .

Thank you!

 

[slisk250]

I like the concept, and photos. If you are going with no denoms, I would suggest changing the 1 and 5 colors to standard blue/white for the 1 and red for the 5 as that is the direction the rest of the set goes. Also the charcoal and chocolate colors in low light will make differentiating between them difficult resulting in dirty stacks.

get samples as any CPC set is an investment for sure.

 

[Anpansam]

Thank you for the response! Below is an attempt to implement your suggestions. I'm hoping the light edge spots on the new $1 will make it easily distinguishable from the $25 and $1000. Similarly, that the dark spots on the new maroon $5 will prevent confusion with the $100. It's a challenge trying to keep the colors fairly muted and also easy to tell apart, especially without samples in hand just yet.

 

[Potsie1]

Welcome to the site. Good luck with your adventure!

 

[slisk250]

I don't know if this works for you. The base colors alternate light/dark/light and I stayed away from DG colors. On the screen they look different from the true color samples. They are a must purchase IMO.

 

[Anpansam]

Wow, those are nice looking chips! Thank you for taking the time to put them together, I really like the charcoal $100. Yeah, definitely not interested in the DG colors for this project, although they look great on others' sets. Probably better to just wait until I can get my hands on some samples. I've looked at the CPC images and the photos of Irish's loaner set a thousand times in the course of my tinkering. Appreciate the input!

 

[slisk250]

No problem. I'm not sure what your budget is but L8 chips are a bit pricey. A 3TA316 is similar and a L5 chip on the price guide.

 

[Anpansam]

Still working out how many of each chip to buy, which will determine per-chip budget. I'm hoping to use this one set for cash and tournaments, and working through various scenarios to make that work well (besides committing to a lifetime of T200 tourneys). Do folks ever just buy 5 or so "extras" of each chip to keep in reserve in case of loss or damage?

 

[slisk250]

yes

 

[Poker Zombie]

CPC will also supply you with a few extras just in case a bad chip slips through quality control - and they do. Your inlays look a little stark without wording or denoms (and I strongly encourage denoms) with the plain white background. I'm not an ornithologist, so I wouldn't recognise any of the birds when they were printed at 7/8" tall - but it may be plenty visible to you and yours.

I would also try to match the bird colors to the colors on the chips - as best you can I think the bird on the 1 is more red so it should be on the 5, unless there's a "value" progression in the birds (like the 1's aren't very tasty, while the 1000's are delish).

Great job with the chip colors and spot patterns!

 

[72o]

...I would also try to match the bird colors to the colors on the chips - as best you can I think the bird on the 1 is more red so it should be on the 5, unless there's a "value" progression in the birds (like the 1's aren't very tasty, while the 1000's are delish).

Great job with the chip colors and spot patterns!

^^^^ I like it. I was going to make the same suggestion. The awesome Bel Air CPC set and the really cool Mariposa Poker Club labels/CC set comes to mind as designs similar that color match the chips.

 

[SixSpeedFury]

Wait until you have the sample set in your hands for sure. What you see on the screen usually differs from the actual product. Not by a lot, but it's best to see the actual colors in person first.

 

[courage]

Love these. Simple appealing theme.

They seem fitting for a 312 set, which has the benefit of level 1 spots, less expensive and you can buy a larger set.

I'd encourage you to do a sepia background or gradient for more natural look. Also I think it would be wise for playability to do a denom, even without dollar sign and something small located in upper left.

 

[courage]

Or a simpler family-spot version.

 

[Anpansam]

Thank you everyone for the excellent input!

I would also try to match the bird colors to the colors on the chips - as best you can I think the bird on the 1 is more red so it should be on the 5, unless there's a "value" progression in the birds (like the 1's aren't very tasty, while the 1000's are delish)

Poker Zombie, the birds are assigned in roughly increasing ornithological interest, and also who looks best where. It's just coincidence that they also happen to be in approximate order of deliciousness I'm willing to move them around a bit, but from a design standpoint more inclined to pair complimentary colors, and match edge spots and overall lightness/darkness. For example:

I think the red bird looks nicer on the green chip. Of course, the chips 72o posted look great, but I think that's owing smaller bird/butterfly images and the ability to match colors pretty much exactly.

I'd encourage you to do a sepia background or gradient for more natural look. Also I think it would be wise for playability to do a denom, even without dollar sign and something small located in upper left.

Courage, I'll definitely do some kind of gradient or vignetting, probably specific to each chip. I hear you and Poker Zombie on adding denominations, and agree it would help fill space, improve playability, but still not completely sold. I do really like the 312 edge spots you propose. In another forum a member here posted images of some vintage Casino de Capri chips that I took inspiration from, which have similar spots.

Thanks again, everybody!

 

[Poker Zombie]

I agree with the red bird on the green chip - the spot ties it all together.

 

[Geremie]

I like the design and progression. Usually not a fan of the non-denoms, but this one is nice

 

[Anpansam]

Thanks, Geremie!

 

[Geremie]

This brings me back to my early days where these were the bills in circulation:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Birds_of_Canada_(banknotes)

Shit, this would be a cool set to make as well...retro style!

 

[Geremie]

If I knew how to design a label, I would create this series and put it in the CPC tool to see how they look....but I'm having trouble scaling the images

 

[Anpansam]

Nice, those would make a good set! Apologies if this is below your design tool expertise, but have you added the image as an inlay, then gone to "Active Object" on the right, and selected "Inlay Image" from the pull down menu? This should give some tools for moving and scaling . . .

 

[Anpansam]

So here is the current state of the design. Still haven't added gradients, possible denominations yet, but curious what folks think of the chip colors, particularly whether it's too much with a non-denim set to expect people to equate brown chips with $5, and whether the brown chip is distinct enough from the black, both having darker spots? As ever, any criticism is much appreciated.

 

[Geremie]

Wow...definitely didn't pick up on it...thanks for the tips. I'm probably going to kill some serious time this weekend playing around with this now

 

[Anpansam]

Oh God, once you start it never ends

 

[jbutler]

First time in the thread somehow - really love this theme. I was immediately reminded of gedanken's set over on ChipTalk, but unfortunately the photos have apparently been lost to time. If anyone has them stored somewhere, I'd love to see them again.

Gedanken's set is a good example of one that goes the way of your initial idea: different species of fish on each chip with no accompanying text or denomination. They work quite well imo. Of course, the Mariposa set pictured above is a good example of how you could take a similar idea and incorporate text and a denom.

Either way you go will be great, but definitely consider employing a designer (of which we have several around here, all reasonably priced imo) to touch up your idea for printing.

And welcome to the forum!

 

[courage]

Looking sweet. I think the chocolate chip will work, but perhaps change the center spot to dg green or blurple?

Also, would prolly do bright white instead of regular white. Those are small spots so they will pop and not be overpowering.

I was a bit worried about maroon on black but framed by the retro lav I think it'd be different and will work. Or you could change black base to charcoal.

You might try changing to 3ta316 spot. It reduces the center spot size but also the cost since it lowers the level.

 

[jbutler]

Just some suggestions in the below mock-up.

I like using brown for a $5, but I think the spots could be better distinguished. And as much as I love maroon, it will be lost as the center spot on the black chip. Just not enough differentiation. Same goes for the white spots on the canary base of the 1000 chip. Canary and white are close enough that they will blend too easily together there imo (also the reason for the change on the blue chip removing canary as the center color between the white spots).

 

[courage]

So here is the current state of the design. Still haven't added gradients, possible denominations yet, but curious what folks think of the chip colors, particularly whether it's too much with a non-denim set to expect people to equate brown chips with $5, and whether the brown chip is distinct enough from the black, both having darker spots? As ever, any criticism is much appreciated.


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Another option for spot colors since 4 of them use white:

Lt blue: butterscotch, canary
Chocolate: lavender, blurple
Lt green: mandarin red, dg pink
Black: retro lav, maroon
Lavender: gray, bright white
Canary: lt blue, dg peacock

 

[Mr Tree]

Just some suggestions in the below mock-up.

I like using brown for a $5, but I think the spots could be better distinguished. And as much as I love maroon, it will be lost as the center spot on the black chip. Just not enough differentiation. Same goes for the white spots on the canary base of the 1000 chip. Canary and white are close enough that they will blend too easily together there imo (also the reason for the change on the blue chip removing canary as the center color between the white spots).

Inlay perfected, ship it

 

[courage]

Here's an option using circle square mold and 1" inlays to get a little bigger inlay (see the redbelly set for an example). Also using 3ta316.