Some design notes/struggles:
The 1 has a single line
The 2 has a double line
The 5 has a pentagon
The 25 has a 25-pointed thingamajig
The 100 has a 100-pointed starburst thingamajig
• I am not sure whether to make the solid a 25c or 50c piece... And didn’t really stick to my number thing above with it. The thin single line broken into four pieces would make more sense for quarters. I just don’t know if I’ll ever spread a game that uses quarters.
• I’m trying to be mindful of making variations of light-on-dark vs dark-on-light type.
• Each chip picks up the base color and both spot colors, but not always in the same scheme. For example, I would have preferred a canary yellow base for the $2 inlay/label, but was concerned that it could wind up being confused for the $1 chip in certain light (since they both have some narrow gray spots, and the white spot on the yellow chip could disappear). So I used a dark gray label, picking up the edge spot, to differentiate the 2 from the 1.
• On the 5, I initially wanted the peach color to be the main highlight over the brown base, but I felt emphasizing the blue would differentiate it more from the other chips, which have various oranges and yellows. In particular, I was concerned that the brown 5 and black 100 could be confused.
• Several people have suggested using the browns as $20s instead, which I like, but this was the only spotted THC chip I could find in excellent condition, in enough quantity (300). If I could find enough of something else to use as a 5, which fits into the color scheme, I might go that route and either use my two racks of CDM 5s as 2s instead, or just sell them and stick with the AST1000s.
• I’m still playing with leaf arrangements... At first they were all in the same upright/top position, but with oak leaves flying everywhere here in the Hudson Valley, I had some fun making some of them tumble across the face of the chip.
• For the denoms—a grudging concession, as I’m on record as hating them—I tried to keep them discreet. It was not possible to place them consistently, since only single digits fit within the “O” of Hoyle. So I had to bump the numerals down for the 50c/$25/$100.
• These are also non-lining or “antique” numerals, meaning that they are not all the same height, as they would be if printed in a stock table or financial report... So for example, the 5 descends lower than the 2. I find it more elegant that way, but I can imagine to some eyes it might look like a mistake.
• I may have to bump up the point size of the dollars and cents signs, as they will be pretty tiny once printed.
• I have a barrel of hot orange Jack Cincy 1KPs which I was going to use as 500s, and might still do a mockup of those, but the truth is I’m very unlikely to ever need 500s. It would just be for fun.
