Cheers for the opinions, anons!
>>2461210My Creative Suite programs seem to have realized that they were trial versions, so I am just using a random only text-curving generator - this was the only suitable font available.
>>2461222I haven't been using any templates or anything, I'm just eyeballing it and doing this in a simple program on my tablet. However, I have dozens and dozens of circular patches, and you can't just scale up or down as you're suggesting.
>>2461211The text needs to be of a certain size, otherwise the embroidery won't work (especially since we're going for a distinctly detailed font style), and it won't be legible.
I was thinking that /out/ could go between the handles of the crossed spades? The umlauts can always be added or removed at a later stage of the design. Don't worry too much about those right now.
To avoid the text going full circle, it would have to be shortened to Schaufelbrüder, like picrel.