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[The_White_Dwarf]

I've been working on the inlay design in the last couple of days. I found a great match of 5 characters, one for each chip.
I'm not sure how to design them yet (still working on that).

Meanwhile I thought to make the inlay in a coin like design. One side with the characters portrait and the other side with a denomination and symbol.
Here is the current design I've reached at:

I would love to hear your thoughts on what's missing from it.

Thanks,
Omri

 

[bernielomax]

Will each chip denomination have a different quote? Or is the underlying theme quote going to be "A fool and his money are soon parted" for the entire set?

 

[The_White_Dwarf]

Interesting idea!

I thought one for all. But I like the idea.
The portrait side will have the character name on it.

 

[Darson]

A solid piece of advice that we always give is to print out a mock-up on paper at actual size. On screen the text may look fine but IRL it may be unreadable.

Also, I personally think that the quote should be more Dwarvish "you bluff like an elf" for example.

 

[The_White_Dwarf]

A solid piece of advice that we always give is to print out a mock-up on paper at actual size. On screen the text may look fine but IRL it may be unreadable.

Also, I personally think that the quote should be more Dwarvish "you bluff like an elf" for example.

Love it!

 

[The_White_Dwarf]

What do you think of the design? What's missing?

 

[Darson]

Print and take a look. I think that life size, The White Dwarf is barely readable and the quote is just a mess. Look for a simpler font for the quote - actually the font is really more "Ye Olde English" than fantasy. Try something with a rune like font - may make things more legible at small scale. With the dwarf theme you're looking for a font that is more like one carved in stone than written with a pen.

 

[Nymor]

Following on from Darsons comment ...

You may well do something like this already, or know your way around fonts in general, but when I'm looking for font inspiration I go to Dafont, type in my sample text, select 200 fonts per page and browse down the page until something looks right.

For The White Dwarf I tried Rune type fonts as suggested above

https://www.dafont.com/theme.php?cat=705&text=The+White+Dwarf&fpp=200

which gives a lot of wingdings type fonts but maybe First Order works - nice and chunky

https://www.dafont.com/first-order.font?fpp=200&text=The+White+Dwarf

or one of the Celtic fonts ...

https://www.dafont.com/theme.php?cat=403&fpp=200&text=The+White+Dwarf

Just thinking aloud ...

 

[The_White_Dwarf]

I've been playing with several designs, this time I tried to do in a similar design to this one:

These are two examples:

The denomination size is the same as the color name in the samples and the text size is the same as the web address :

Would love to get your thoughts,

Omri

 

[Rhodeman77]

I’d like to see the name be bigger. Being the same size as the statement at the bottom makes the name seem less important. I do like the font, very Dwarvish.

 

[JustinInMN]

I’d like to see the name be bigger. Being the same size as the statement at the bottom makes the name seem less important. I do like the font, very Dwarvish.

I would agree, I bet you could go about 20-25% bigger on the name, and about 20% smaller on the statement at the bottom to really make the name stand out.

 

[The_White_Dwarf]

I agree they look better now:

 

[JustinInMN]

I agree they look better now:

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Better, but I think you can go even bigger with the room name. It's the thing that should really catch the eye first. Get as close to the left and right edges as you can. Leave minimal whitespace .

 

[SteveEH]

Still too small/too much to read IMO

 

[Darson]

Still far too small. And it's worth noting that your example Horseshoe chip is 43mm so not comparable to CPC anyway.

 

[The_White_Dwarf]

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Still far too small. And it's worth noting that your example Horseshoe chip is 43mm so not comparable to CPC anyway.

I did not know that it's 43mm...

Thanks!
Omri

 

[eightyWon]

Maybe throw the "the" above "White", giving more room to make the important words larger?

 

[The_White_Dwarf]

Here is my latest inlay design. I would love to hear your thoughts.

 

[allforcharity]

Just so you know, base Green is on the dark side, especially next to Black 100. Consider Light Green, and maybe a brighter edge spot. Maybe DG Tiger?

 

[Darson]

Looks good - the denominations are clear and really that's all that's important - the rest is just fluff. I would look at the lavender chip - seems a bit too monotone to me.

 

[The_White_Dwarf]

I wonder from your experience, what will look better the white or silvery background?

Omri

 

[krafticus]

I wonder from your experience, what will look better the white or silvery background?

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Omri

I think white might be better

 

[TheLemursReturn]

See I love the silver way more. Gives it a metal (and thus, dwarven) vibe. Whereas the white give it a.... nothing vibe.

This is why internet feedback is so hard to navigate haha.

 

[The_White_Dwarf]

My girlfriend says silver from the same reason, my brother says white . It's hard anywhere...

Omri

 

[Darson]

You can’t print silver so it’ll really be grey. That’s the real problem!

 

[allforcharity]

White background. The Grey won't work here unless you make the gradient way more subtle.

 

[The_White_Dwarf]

White background. The Grey won't work here unless you make the gradient way more subtle.

That is exactly what I had in mind. I'll try to make it lighter color also.