Measuring the ratio between height and width of the knitting, and counting the individual letter width, and cutting strips of paper with the appropriate measurements, and some more fiddling later, I finally had this:
which was my super-sophisticated knitting plan for actually making this. Including a plan on how much to cast on.
And then came some swatching:
Which only left one thing to do - the actual um knitting. That took some time, especially as I managed to botch in a few instances. That's proof that one should not knit things that require brains while tired!
I finally finished this knit, though. There was a stint of late-night-blocking, and it came out like this:
Now I only need to turn it into a button - and hope it will amuse other people just as much as me. That's how it will look, approximately:
The buttons have a diameter of 55 mm, which means that it will be possible to see a bit of the knit texture in the background, or so I hope. It's not blatantly clear that this is knitted text, I think - but it wil have to be good enough, as there's no way to knit letters across fewer stitches.
So. What do you think? Should I go for it?