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Originally Posted by halftilt
OK, I'm really going to need this explained. You apparently think white chips are ugly but brown ones (which I've never even seen personally) are fine, as are black chips with blue spots.
lol, it's a question of taste, I guess.
White chips show grime faster than other colors, and (this is the taste part) look cheap to me. bland, meh, absence of color.
brown can be ugly, depending on the brown and what it's next to. I am accepting no criticism of my blacks with blue spots; I think they look lovely.
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You consider blue dice chips to be easily confused with both white (I guess because of the edge spots?) and black chips,
blue dice chips are the same as white dice chips with the chip and spot colors reversed. It's rather easy to mix a blue chip in a white stack and not notice. And put a black chip with white spots in a stack of blues with white spots, keep the lighting dim, and again it's really easy to build a dirty stack or misread a bet.
If you can avoid blue chips in dice sets, I'd recommend that.
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but see no problem with having brown and black chips in the same set. What?
my brown chips are much more easily confused with my reds than with my blacks. It's a question of how dark the brown is. Most "brown" chips are a light enough shade that they don't get confused with the blacks at all.
Also, being careful with your spot colors is important. My browns have white spots, and leap right out of a stack of my blacks-n-blues.
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how come nobody ever seems to think that there's a problem with having red and green chips in the same set? Quite a few people are red-green colour-blind
I worried a bit about this when designing my set, and asked a lot of people. Basically I found no evidence of red/green colorblindness causing confusion at a poker table. I guess there are enough clues besides the red/green hue that the colorblind guys have no problems. It might be wise to make the spots different between red and green, and keep the shades somewhat different. Most greens are fairly light, and most reds fairly dark, for example.
I HAVE played with a colorblind guy who has trouble reading chips occasionally, but curiously it's purples vs greens that throw him off.