Before designing your T-shirt for print-on-demand, you should know these guidelines.
A few weeks back, I watched videos and read articles on “How to sell more T-shirts in POD” and noticed 3 important points.
I’ll share 3 important rule in the article, so don’t forget to read till the end.
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Rule no. 1,
The first rule is all about filling rectangle.
Now, in terms of designs for t-shirts. I am aware that we have a wide variety of techniques and forms at disposal.
However, many of the most well-liked designs in the print-on-demand sector will occupy the entire rectangle, or to put it another way, the entire space on the shirt. which is typically 16 by 20 inches, or something similar, and that’s what you’ll want for print on orders like Red Bubble or Merch by Amazon, or something similar.
Of course, there are exceptions to this rule when it comes to t-shirt designs, you could, for example, use a nice badge, perhaps in the center of the shirt, or you could have some nice script lettering or something across the chest.
Maybe if we’re an apparel brand or something like that,
but if we’re just starting to get into the print-on-demand space we’re, not probably throwing our logo or something on a shirt for people to buy most likely we’re gonna.
After doing some research, we should be able to identify some successful designs and create a design that utilizes the entire composition and available space on the front of the shirt.
By the way,
When it comes to composition, filling the rectangle helps with the full layout. It helps us fill and utilize all of the available space for the t-shirt because we can use typography and illustrations together to create a nice full layout, as opposed to having something like an illustration kind of floating in the middle or the bottom of the shirt, and then we have a lot of negative space kind of elsewhere.
However, as we begin to grasp the principles of t-shirt design, we may unleash creativity and develop unique ideas for smaller designs for a t-shirt’s pocket or chest.
When it comes to t-shirt design, this is a decent general guideline.
Rule no. 2,
Alright, the second rule is all about colors. We should use caution while utilizing a large number of colors.
I’m not saying that colors will be hazardous.
Some hues can be harmful.
We should keep the number of colors we use to a minimum since, if we’re doing screen printing, heat transfers, or anything similar, we’ll probably find that using more colors will increase the cost of the design.
Therefore, by limiting our color palette, we can create a more aesthetic design and, hopefully, save you some money for print-on-demand websites that use direct-to-garment, or DTG, printing.
We should be able to use as many colors as our liking and this shouldn’t be a problem. We don’t want to go too wild and make our design look like a disaster, so I’m still going to err on the side of caution when it comes to using a small color scheme.
I am aware that adding more colors might be alluring since you want the design to be vibrant, but doing so runs the risk of having the opposite impact and drawing the user’s attention away from the main idea of the design.
Moreover, I am not really sure what the magic number is. I would just attempt to use a small core group of colors when choosing how many to employ.
Just try to limit it, and don’t go too crazy with something like 15 or 20 designs, because one it might get expensive depending on how you’re, printing and two it may get too distracting for the viewer.
Rule no. 3,
Alright, the last rule is to just keep your t-shirt design simple.
What I mean is, that the design must be simple to understand,
Can the audience look at it?
Can your viewer look at it and immediately know what’s going on in the shirt?
In other words, don’t try to explain an entire movie plot on your shirt when you’re, just working on one scene.
Final Words,
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Provided rules are for people who have just started pod business.
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