Just designed my first Poker Chip Set - Lucky Fish (1 Viewer)

[sirwazowski]

Hi all,

I host poker games at least weekly and wanted to design create chips for my home games to make it more custom and unique and went with a more simplistic look. Would love some thoughts and opinions!

 

[davislane]

You should make a plaque for the $500

 

[valleychips]

My 2 cents: you'll want to make words and especially numbers bigger/more readable. They're much tinier in reality than you'd think. It's a good idea to print samples at actual "poker chip inlay" size. I'm very relieved that I did this with my own. When the chips arrived, even though the inlay was slightly smaller than I imagined, everything was still beautiful and easily readable. Phew! A big investment. Worth the extra effort.

 

[Felt_Lizard]

Yes, enlarge text and denoms

 

[dizzyChipper]

Matching the color of the inlay to the chip won’t work. You’re better off making it all white or a similar but clearly not identical color to the chip. Trying to make it close will just wind up looking off.

Make the $100 and $500 43mm!!!!

I get it that you want simple and elegant and classy but I’d add yellow spots to the green chip. The 25c and $25 are kind of similar and the spot color would be a good distinction.

I’m not as on board as everyone else about denom size. Your colors are standard and people should require little adjustment if they play often. But ok. Text size maybe bigger.

Coo stuff!!

—Diz

 

[chip_me_up5]

curious, what type of chips are you going to go with?

 

[GGHank]

Design is really cool, I think the label designs need to be bigger and maybe higher contrast (I think the $1 is good). The image on your screen is huge but actually printed they are tiny, make them easily readable.

 

[SteveEH]

Bigger font - print actual size and do an arms length test to make sure it's legible.

Center the denomination without the $ or cent symbols, and make the symbols' font smaller than the denomination font so it looks better when it's to the left/right.

 

[QuietMaple]

Love the chips and the understated design! Agree with everyone else that the text should be larger.

 

[NickyT]

Really dig the logo. Very sleek and clean.

 

[BPTDirector]

In dim lighting it will be hard to tell between the 25,100, and 500. I like the colors chosen but know about what would result.

 

[sirwazowski]

curious, what type of chips are you going to go with?

Most likely the tina chips

 

[sirwazowski]

In dim lighting it will be hard to tell between the 25,100, and 500. I like the colors chosen but know about what would result.

I will for sure get samples and update eventually

 

[acezag]

Great design - nice work for a first set.
If you've been using 5c, then you know what you're doing. I think most folks who haven't used them grow out of that chip pretty quickly. I'd personally make your frac NCV - then you have a set that can be used for just about anything. Really nice when you want to jump stakes with different groups.

Personally I'd also layer on some more spots starting with $5 and above. If you get custom clays, every extra spot costs a lot. This is the cool thing about Tinas - everything is the same price.

 

[sirwazowski]

I've taken some of what you have all suggested and have made the following changes:
1. Increased the size of the text
2. Increased the size of the number and made the denomination symbol smaller as well as centre the number (might make it even bigger?)
3. I have decided to add some different color outlines inspired from different sets.
4. Keep a standard background color for the label
5. Made the chip colors more vibrant
6. Leaving the 5c denomination and not making it a NCV since people like having it. Also not worried too much that 5c and $5 are similar in color as they will never be in play together

would love some more honest (and if needed harsh) comments and opinions. I will print the inlays to also just test the size of texts but I feel like it looks better now. Also for the $100 chip I'm leaning towards the second design.

Also which do folks prefer in terms of background inlay color, dark or light?

Thanks!

 

[BPTDirector]

I vote for the black background inlays. This iteration is much better IMO.

 

[QuietMaple]

There are great! I especially like the $1 and $5 chips. For the $100, I like the second one (V spots) better. I could go either way on the light vs dark inlay backgrounds.

 

[btbmason]

I like the design, very minimal but unique. Dark inlay looks better for me personally.

I also like the second $100 better, but only because you have kind of a very literal edge spot progression between the $5/$25/$100, but then the smaller chips don’t use that edge spot/shape/size in any way. It almost makes it like two different sets.

 

[GGHank]

Love the contrast of the black inlays, sizing looks much better too. I kinda like the first $100 chip more but it's close.

Only thing I would say, and it's personal preference, but I feel like there's an abundance of warm colors and not so many cool colors for edge spots. Maybe using one of a blue/green/purple spot on the $1 would bring a little more balance for me.

Keep up the great work!

 

[golosefast]

IMO black bg, maybe make the $ values 10-15% bigger(?)

 

[Timportant19]

Why not make a combi of both?
Make the 100's with black inlay and the 1's with white f.e.?