Chips for .50/1.00 limit?

[bolgenmod]

I hate to post the boring old questions, but I'm talking about a ring-game, not a tournament, so I hope the helpful people on Home Games will indulge me.

I'm trying to start a new .50/1.00 limit game, and I need new chips. (Wish I could afford the Egyptians/Pharaoh's Club!, but for now I'm going with the 4Star fake clays...). I plan on getting 600 chips for an 8 player game which should be more than enough.

I figured I need three colors for .25/.50/1.00, and I thought I'd try to have some relationship between my chips and casino chips. So I was thinking that to keep the hierarchy straight, I'd get red for .25, green for .50 and black for 1.00. Or should I try to keep the multiples closer to the "real" thing and thus have green as .25, black as 1.00, and something else for .50?

Once I figure out the colors, I think the distribution is relatively easy: although the common wisdom is to get more than half of the lowest denomination, I've found that people love the middle chip. The last chip set I bought had four colors and frankly we never use the white chips (lowest denomination) anymore. So I'd get 300 of the middle (.50), 200 of the low (.25), 100 of the high (1). Or should I get 100 low (SB) and 200 high (big bet)?

What do you think? What colors? What distribution?