A year ago (give or take) I had an idea for a new style of patches. I had been seeing these Euro Stickers on cars all over the place, and thought it would be fun to do patches in that style — but for towns in H.P. Lovecraft‘s fictional Massachusetts. I did up a design for Arkham, and ran some tests, and just wasn’t quite happy with it. I didn’t have any actual fonts at that point, and was trying to digitize all these letters by hand — including the small ones at the top and bottom, and it just wasn’t coming out cleanly. So, I set it aside.
Since then, I’ve picked up a few fonts for other patches, and while I was up in the studio this weekend, I came across one of the old test patches. I realized that now, with more tools at my disposal, I could give these another try, with probably better results.
As before, I tried Arkham first. It is, after all, probably the most well-known of Lovecraft’s locations.
And — success! I was quite happy with the result, and promptly scanned it in, posted it on Etsy, and linked it to my Facebook page to show off, along with the announcement that Innsmouth and Dunwich would follow shortly.
In the thread of comments that followed, it was suggested that I should do a Euro Patch for Raxacoricofallapatorius, the home of the Slitheen in the Doctor Who universe. I was so tickled by this idea, that I immediately set about creating one.
Now, of course, I’m thinking about the plethora of imaginary places that could be done into patches like this. WNTRFL for Winterfell? MRDR for Mordor? GLFRY for Gallifrey?
What other places or fandoms would you like to see made into Euro Patches?
Wonderland (1DRLND), The Shire (SHIRE), Neverland (NVLND), Narnia, Hogsmead (HGSMD), Gap of Rohan (ROHAN), Isle of Avalon (AVALON), Lost Moon of Poosh (POOSH), Babylon 5 (BYBLN5)
District 12!
What about Stargate SG-1 and Stargate Atlantis ones? Or Firefly? Or Battlestar Galactica? The Star Wars universe would be Epic! Especially the expanded universe! Hello Mandalore!
I’m with Trish on the LOTR ones, though I’d stick to famous locations: RVNDLL (Rivendell), MNSTRTH (Minas Tirith), LTHLRN (Lothlorien), HLMSDP (Helm’s Deep), etc. That way you can put the region above and world below:
The Shire
HOBBTN
Middle-Earth
You’ll make a mint, at least until Christopher Tolkien’s lawyers catch up with you… ;^D