Help creating a letter in a font that doesn't exist

Some fictional fonts are easy to find, some hard, some don't actually exist outside the letters seen in context. I am looking at the Pizza Planet font. My Lemons team races the Pizza Planet truck and I'd like to make a shirt using the Pizza Planet logo that says Idle Clatter

A friend of mine is a vinyl sign and T shirt creator and worked with me to make Idle latter by modifying the letters available. We were unable to come up with a working C. We tried starting with the swoopy part of the P and it just doesn't look good.

I'm not against using a C from a different font, but I'm having trouble finding one that fits. I'm not against making a new C to fit this design but I'm running thin on ideas. Anybody have advice on where to go next?

In reply to buzzboy :

Flip the capital p upside down. Done. 

I would be tempted to use the planet with it's ring, flipped so that the ring is oriented like a 'C', and enlarge the thicker portions of the ring until it fits the style of the other letters. Sure, you're gonna have a planet in the middle of your clatter, but that's the kind of whacky E36 M3 that makes a logo memorable.

Mndsm said:

In reply to buzzboy :

Flip the capital p upside down. Done. 

How did we not? That might be a winner this quickly.

This is my sketch. The real one is on my friend's computer and looks a bit different that this but it shows off the idea.

This place is the coolest.

(random post whoring and self board congratulations)

buzzboy said:

Mndsm said:

In reply to buzzboy :

Flip the capital p upside down. Done. 

How did we not? That might be a winner this quickly.

This is my sketch. The real one is on my friend's computer and looks a bit different that this but it shows off the idea.

You can cut the leg off that flipped "P" to get a better looking "C".  My wife and I make vinyl shirts and signs ourselves too.

That was the original design, leg cut off, and it didn't look right. The swoopy leg ads to the futurism of the font.

A lot of it will depend on how the Idle meshes with the Clatter part below it. Part of the reason the Pizza Planet logo works so well is that the two words along with the pizza planet itself all nest together well. Mock up the complete logo and see how it looks. 

Now that I see it upside down, I would make one other change. Flip the down stroke on the p (the extra doodad on the c) from left to right so the flat side lines up with the l. It will allow for a much cleaner transition and clean up the kerning. Will look better lined up with the rest of it. 

I'm pretty happy with how it turned out.

Sweet

It’s Perfect (imagine the P the same as the font) haha 

That worked out better than I expected. 

Mndsm said:

In reply to buzzboy :

Flip the capital p upside down. Done. 

Wow, this is awesome.

Mndsm said:

In reply to buzzboy :

Flip the capital p upside down. Done. 

Well, that was easy for you.....  lol