Popular Patches by
Who Wears Them
These are the fifteen orders we see most often, grouped by who is wearing the patch and where it goes on the garment.
Audience and placement are the two things that shape an order before anyone picks a material, so start here if you know who it is for and work toward the construction afterward.
Find your
people.
Grouped by who wears the patch. Each page covers the versions that order actually needs and the decisions that come with them.
Shopping for a garment?Military & Government
Insignia for people on duty, where the artwork is usually supplied and authorized by the organization rather than designed here. Most of these orders need the same design in more than one version, and matching a set matters more than any single piece.
Public Safety
Identification that has to be legible on duty and recognisable off it. These orders usually run as a set across a department, so the subdued version and the full-color version are planned at the same time, not one after the other.
Clubs & Teams
Patches that mark belonging to a group, from a club vest to a varsity jacket to a team kit. These orders tend to grow over time, so plan the first piece knowing that the second and third have to match it.
Find its
place.
A cap front and a jacket back ask different things of a patch. Start with the surface, because it constrains the finished size before anything else does.
Open the size & placement guide
The right patch starts with the whole picture.
Most orders are settled by three things together: who wears it, where it sits and what the artwork needs. Pick the page that matches your situation, and the material decision follows from there rather than the other way around.
Compare patch materials- Your artwork
- A logo, sketch, or existing patch, plus any required colors.
- Its home
- The garment, usable width and height, and how it will attach.
- The order
- Quantity, variations, reorder needs, and your in-hand date.