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I went without denoms for my nexgen labels, but for "serious" custom chips, I probably would use denoms. I don't know exactly why I think this, but figuring out my thought process is beyond the scope of this forum.

Anyway, I think the the ONLY way to get by without denominations on your chips is if you stick strictly to the standard casino colors of red, green, black, purple (and maybe yellow) only. For tournaments, it makes perfectly normal sense, and if you get a bunch of white or blue for $1's, your cash game should be fine also. Of course this depends on your cash game limits, but anything higher than $1 is fine, and if you need to go lower, I wouldn't have nickel, dime, quarter demoms anyway - you just need to scale down what you have.