Dalluhan License Plate Challenge

Dalluha, 1990. The fall of the Iron Curtain means Dalluhan cars now routinely travel to the West, not just to fashion-unconscious Archana, and the stodgy old license plates aren’t cutting it anymore. Also, some Western imports are trickling in to the Dalluhan market, and not all of them can fit the wide (European) plates.

The Dalluhan Ministry of Transportation therefore puts on a contest: design a license plate. Ideally two, one European-shaped (more important), the other US-shaped. While we may pick and choose a separate winner for each, making both, or a yet wider variety, increases the odds of winning.

The prize: every appearance of the plate for the rest of eternity will be credited to the winner.

Guidelines:

  • Use Dalluhan national colors (primarily black, with secondary colors of white, red, and yellow/gold).
  • Have a blank square in one corner for a year tag.
  • Use the three-star motif somewhere.
  • Official-looking ministerial logos/badges are welcome.
  • Stylistically resemble the vanilla Hetvesian, Archanan, and Fruinian plates, including a “DAL” abbreviation.
  • Blank plate slightly preferred, hard-coded lettering ok (especially if embossed).
  • Variety earns bonus points.
  • PNG format preferred. JPG or BMP ok.

Inspirations:
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Contest begins now, and ends in… how about 1/31?

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I’ve never seen a challenge about creating a new license plate background - especially for what was, in 1990 AD, a “new and emerging” market.

Looks interesting. However, is this a photoshop challenge? or a build it ingame with fixtures and you’ll recreate it as a plate mod later?

Photoshop. Send me PNG (preferred), JPG, or BMP please.

Are we allowed to send in template files that can be opened up in graphics editors? What about Vector graphics, does it have to be raster?

The font, spacing and location of letters on a license plate is an integral part of the design. Editors like GIMP can put out the .psd format used by Photoshop, so it shouldn’t be that hard for you to take something editable which can have custom added at will.

An example of an editable plate would be the ones I’ve provided for ALC:

(There’s an SVG too, but it can’t be uploaded due to forum rules)

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I don’t know diddly about vectors and rasters and whatnot. The idea is something usable directly in Automation.