So you’ve decided that you want to make some screenprinted t-shirts; you’ve found a good shirt printing company who can help you
out; and now you’ve got to design them. Your creative juices just aren’t
flowing the way they should and your mind is amuck with needless questions.
What color shirts should you get? What color ink will go well with the color
you choose?

As free as you are to make your custom shirt designs, the
sheer volume of options you have available actually winds up freezing you. With
any and every direction available to you, you just can’t decide which way to
go. Here’s some helpful advice on custom shirt designs to help free you from
your mental blockage so that you can get those shirts made more quickly.

The Artwork.

This is usually pretty easy for business owners looking
to make a work shirt for their employees since they can just use the company
logo, but if you’re making custom team shirts for your recreation league, it
can be a bit more difficult. Thankfully, a lot of companies actually have stock
art that they can use for your custom shirt designs. Choose a piece that looks
nice and fits with the team’s name.

The key here isn’t what you choose–but size and
placement. This applies for those work shirts, too. You don’t want any custom
shirt designs that are huge, which will look too flashy. Instead, it’s best to
either have custom shirt designs with a medium sized graphic on the center of
the chest, or a small one on the front breast with a larger one on back.

The Name.

Whether it’s the company name, the team name, or the
event’s name, you’ve got to have it at least somewhere on the shirt. If you’re
not going to have any artwork in your custom shirt designs (which is a
possibility worth considering) it’s best to put the name front and center. If
you do, put the name either on top or on the bottom of the artwork.

The most important thing to keep in mind with this part
of your custom shirt designs is the font and its size. You don’t want it
dominating, but you do want it big enough so that it can be read from a
distance. Others will also base their impressions on your font. If you have a
wacky, goofy, san-serif font, then they’ll think your shirts are less formal.
If it’s something more formal, then they’ll get a totally different impression
of your custom shirt designs.

The Color Scheme.

The best piece of advice I can offer here is to keep it
simple. This will make your choices a lot easier, and actually bring the total
cost down. When printers need to use more than one ink on your custom shirt
designs, the price goes way up and so does the time it takes to make them.
Instead, pick a nice color for the shirt that you like, and a complimentary
colored ink. If you’re making custom work shirts, keep your employees in mind,
as white will get dirty quickly and become too stained while black may overheat
your employees.

Hopefully now you’ve got the wheels turning out some good
ideas for custom shirt designs. Remember–keep it simple–and you’ll do fine.
If you have any questions about custom shirt designs, feel free to contact TheShirtPrinter.com.