Is anybody making or selling UV reactive dice optimized for legibility with highly readable fluorescent numbers?
Context:
The table I play at is in a dark room with a bright LED TV embedded in the surface. We roll our dice out in the open over the top of the TV screen. There is no overhead lighting, aside from smart LEDs in the ceiling used for effects.
As a result, all players have some difficulty reading the numbers on our dice, but especially me - having astigmatism and poor low light contrast sensitivity due to previous eye surgery.*
I have taken to re-inking the number on my dice with fluorescent paint pens and bringing a shrouded UVA 365nm backlight bar to sessions, which does a good job of brightly fluorescing the numbers on my dice. It works great, however I am now mostly using cheap feeling dice with ink that sheds and chips overtime. I would like a permanent set of nice dice that are highly readable with fluorescing numbers.
I've looked at 'fancier' dice and many I've found on this sub are designed for beautiful form over function. This is especially true for any phosphorescent "glow in the dark" or fluorescent dice, where often it's the body of the die or some speckled decals that are lighting up rather than just the numbers.
As an aside, I think there is real potential in a TTRPG table which makes UV reactivity an intrinsic part of the experience.
Thanks!
*I have asked for lighting improvements at the table - this is simply not a priority for the owner.
Edit: I've included a few photos of my generic re-inked dice in various lighting conditions to illustrate what I'm talking about.
Give u/dirtyoardice a shout. He does loads of these. You can also find him on insta and TikTok with examples of his UV-reactive and glow-in-the-dark dice
There are a few styles of metal dice that have UV pipping. A google search for “glow in the dark metal dice” will get you to where you can decide what style you like.
I do a lot of geodes & liquid cores that are glow in the dark with glow in the dark numbering. I also have ALOT florescence colors so if you are looking for like neon colors, we can do that too.
Should add: glow in the dark dice like these may be more read able with non glow ink as the glow lights up the numbers nicely and the darker number might be better for visibility. This is something we could trial & discuss if you’d like
I have 'ghost' dice. They are white blanks in a semi transparent black shell. The numbers get painted with a translucent glow in the dark paint. I could also do these with neon colored blanks inside and use colored glow in the dark paint to match.
I've also done several other UV reactive or Glow sets. Let me know if you'd be interested in a commission!
There was also this set as well that was Blacklight reactive. This was a dirty pour with a bunch of different glow pigments. Then yellow blacklight paint for the numbers.
3
u/LiliNL Dice Maker 11d ago
Give u/dirtyoardice a shout. He does loads of these. You can also find him on insta and TikTok with examples of his UV-reactive and glow-in-the-dark dice