Top 3 T-Shirt Design Rules To Follow
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When you are getting into the Print On Demand world and want to start selling t-shirts, there are a couple important design rules you will want to follow to make sure you succeed! So in this video we are teaching you the top 3 t-shirt design rules you need to keep in mind. Whether you are going to use Kittl or some other design tool, it's important to know the best practices so you don't make any mistakes. 👇
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0:00 3 T-Shirt Rules To Follow
0:35 Rule 1 - Fill The Rectangle
2:35 Rule 2 - Be Careful With Colors
4:35 Rule 3 - Keep It Simple
5:00 Good Shirt Examples
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Redbubble, Merch by Amazon, TeeSpring, Teepublic, Society 6. All of these amazing print on demand sites sound like a good place to be right? Well they absolutely are, and it's no secret that selling T-shirts is a fantastic way to make some passive income! But it's important to keep 3 things in mind when it comes to t-shirt design. Rule number 1 is to try and fill out the whole rectangle. T-shirt design sites usually give you a 16 x 20 inch rectangle to work in, and if you only fill out some of the rectangel, you could be left with an awkward amount of space.
Rule 2 is to be careful with your color selection. When you are doing something like DTG (direct-to-garment), most of the time this isn't an issue, but for screen-printing and sometimes doing heat-transfers, the more colors you add generally means the more expensive it will be. Plus, adding more colors may cause your design to be distracting. We know it's tempting to add colors and make your shirt super vibrant, but sometimes less is more!
Rule 3 is to just keep things simple. And we don't mean that your t-shirt design has to be a simple shape with simple text. We mean that yo want to keep things simple to understand. Will the viewer understand your shirt easily if they are just walking by? Or do they have to get up close and study your shirt to see what is going on. This doesn't mean you can't use multiple elements and illustrations, it just means that you want to easily convey your message.
And if you are looking for more info on how to design a t-shirt, then Kittl is the best place to be! We have tons of tutorials here on the channel, and we have thousands of templates you can get started with for your next t-shirt project. So give it a try and see what you think.
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1.fill the rectangle
2.be careful with colours
3.keep your design simple
You got it!
Thank you for saving me eight minutes
Good design is good design. The size of the graphic on most shirts is too large and goofy looking because they are designed by non designers. You don't need to fill the print area given. Make it the "right size" for the design.
Sure. It all depends on the design. Cheers.
Yup I totally agree. It's easy to fall far all the readily available printing processes and saturate the area. Da Vinci stated "the sophistication of simplicity". We are to remember that in the first milli seconds the automatic limbic system takes over and determines our natural initial reaction not only to art but to most situations in life. I am fascinated studying symbols (i.e" Man and his Symbols" written by Carl Jung and associates). Good luck and cheers from Alberta Canada!
I agree, I prefer sleek over gaudy. I don’t want to dress like I’m 11
Good o use but to expensive
Anyone want to look over my designs? Feedback would be awesome
Thank you brother! LOVE KITTL! Best in business hands down.
Glad you think so! Cheers!
Super important rules. Congratulations on the video!
Cheers! Thanks, Renato.
Excellent, really enjoy playing around in Kittle.
Glad you are enjoying Kittl!
Something I want to share that I have experienced with my clothing business. Print on demand is great for small business owners but once you see growth in your brand it is important to stir to better quality suppliers and buy in bulk. Screen printing and print on demand is great to avoid risk early on but if you have good ideas/products this strategy can really limit your growth. Only selling screen printed products is not a good long term strategy for any clothing business in today’s market. Your customers are more critical on quality than ever before. It’s the newest “design trend”
Glad to hear the feedback here!
What is the best print method? DTG? Thx
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We need more things on the sleeves! Use the shoulder space!
We'll do a video on something like that soon!
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Thanks! Hope it helps!
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@@hareniraj8285 Awesome!
Yes I am
Yes I am, still learning how to set my store, name, and trade mark i guess
I buy clearance Tees and put stretch vinyl single color at $10, started adding reflective tape for $12.50, it's a great side hustle. JSactive.
Good tips . Thanks
Glad it was helpful!
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Nice recap on those great tips 😎👍
Thanks! Glad you liked it, and appreciate you watching!
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Can a t-shirt design be successful if it has no brand or words on it?
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I have an Etsy shop but you are right i really need to use the real estate
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For sure!
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Just started using Kittl and it's wonderful. I do hope you add the ability to change the colors of individual letters though. Right now (unless I"m missing something) it looks like you have to creat a separate text element for each color.
Correct, at the moment you have create a separate text block to make each letter a different color. But we are constantly looking into how to add even better and more advanced text editing tools, so we really appreciate your patience! And we're glad you are liking Kittl so far! 🙏
@@Kittldesign Thanks so much for letting me know! I was thinking I was overthinking it. LOL
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In the T-shirt design world, where for decades really great T-shirts sold thousands, tens of thousands and hundreds of thousands and garment embellishment printers go by specific formats- 12x12 is standard and the top seller, 14x16 is oversized and everything over those formats, in real print shops, is considered oversized- it dictated screen, pallet and squeegee selection during production.. So this became the consumer expectation.. If your opening salvo is some random size call out that beginner T-shirt designers should start with, you need to go back and do some homework.. Size is money.. Time on press is money. For Digital, ink usage is money..
The16x20 was just a suggested size that maybe print on demand companies suggest. The first tip here was to fill the rectangle, not that you have to adhere to 16x20. This is more of a design tip to think about using the full real estate of your shirt, not so much about what potential size you will be printing. It could be any size. Screen-printing, heat-transfer, etc, are all different possible methods that can have a variety of sizes, but using a print on demand company like Printful, Printify, Awkward styles, have their limitations. Cheers!
@@Kittldesign So what is best size in Canva and Corel draw.
im planning to start tshirt printing bussiness
Nice! Best of luck!
Great video, thank you! Just one question, how can you avoid infringing copyright when using your templates? Can simply changing the quote be enough to avoid infringement or do you have to make changes to the graphic itself, e.g. modify the colour scheme? Thanks once again.
Hey there! Great question. Any published design on Kittl is readily available for any to use on POD sites or apparel/printable products. We do highly suggest changing at least the text and color scheme as to not potentially have a listing taken down due to a repeated design. You can read more about our published design guidelines and licensing here: www.kittl.com/publish/guidelines
Hey great lesson! Quick question what size to the canvas or the design be when creating in Kiddle so that POD companies will understand and print right size on shirt????
Hey there! Our suggestion is to always go and check the Print on demands specifications. Almost all of them, whether it's Printify or Printful have pixel size guides for every product. For t-shirts, generally 4500x5400 is a standard size that should work across all PODs, but you can also select from our POD presets when you open a new project.
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My tees I put ode sing a only at the back
Is that a good idea
Putting the design on the back? Sure! It all depends on what kind of style and niche you are going for, and who your target audience is.
Can we use kettl free templates for T shirt designs because all are so good, that I was thinking if I made any upgradation , then I may destroy the beauty.
Hey there, you can use the templates as they are, but we strongly recommended changing at least the text and colors, as to not potential have duplicate listings on various websites, which can lead to your similar design listing being taken down. Glad you like the templates!
How to you design both front and back of clothing? Do I need to make to different mocks ? If so how do u turn the shirt around?
Hey there, if you are referencing the mockup generator in Kittl, the view of the shirt is limited to that view only, you can't turn that same mockup around. So it would need to be separate mockups. We are working on improving our mockup feature over the coming weeks.
I am starting to learn new tshirt designs. Your tips were really helpful. From which website I can get ideas for professional quality t-shirt designs?
We'd love for you to use Kittl. Click the link in the description to sign up and try it out for free.
I have seen multiple designs on Kittl that each have sonething I'd like to "extract" for a single design. Is it possible to use 2 designs in Kittl at once to create a "unique" design? The available elements are limited in a way and it'd be great if we could access multiple templates in a single project. Can this be done in Kittl or is there a workaround?
Absolutely, we encourage you to pull different elements and pieces from different templates to create your own design. The easiest way to do this to open up the second project in another tab, and you can simply copy and paste between browser tabs into your project to create your own. Multi-artboard functionality will be coming soon as well, so you have copy over full projects onto the same art-space if you like.
how many colors need to use in your opinion?
This truly depends on your method of printing, but if you are using something like print on demand, you should be fine with a large variety of colors. If you are trying to print it yourself with a screenpress, try limiting it between 3 to 5 when you are just starting out.
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Question: When you have the design with a base color, does it regulate the color of the t-shirt it can go with? I believed that the designs need to be transparent and never use background or base color.
Correct, utilizing a full background color is just a good way to visualize your t-shirt color. We're not entirely sure what you are asking, whether or not you can make transparent designs with Kittl (which you certainly can), or whether you should export with or without a color, but you should always export a transparent design unless you are intending for it to be on a solid shape for some reason.
@@Kittldesign yea, I meant If we must export the design transparent. And you've answered it. Thank you so much..
hey please add the feature where I can turn my logo into a 3d spinning logo and also the T-shirts if that is possible
Hey there! What you desire sounds like it may better be done in a program like Blender or another 3D modeling program. 😉
@@Kittldesign okay thank you, one more thing how do I change the color of the T-shirt with this Kittl software? is this possible?
How you return items?
If you are referring to our Kittl Print feature, at the moment, we don't offer returns, you can reach out to the support team via our Chat feature if you would like to discuss any issues.
Is this for screen printing?
The same rules could be applied to screen printing for sure!
Hey im new to print on demand and still a noob at designing too😅. So i have a question.. if i use colours with a lower opacity on top of other colours, will the printer have any problem on printing that?
Sometimes when I want to add shades to my design I just draw the shape of the shade in black and then reduce the opacity so it creates the actual shade effect but will the printer be able to print that lower opacity colour? I ask this because I see everyone adding the shape of the shade on top of the main colour and then just colour it in the same colour of the main colour but just with a bit darker tone. (They have de main colour red and then they do the shade in a darker red for example.) My doubt is if it will work the way I do it or do I need to do it like everybody else does.😅
Great question! But for a strong answer, you will need to check with the provider you plan to print with. They will be able to tell you if any layering or issues with transparency will take place. From our experience, most of the time there is no issue, but occasionally a printer will have difficulty distinguishing the middle overlayed color. For print on demand, typically there will be a error or warning notification that pops up stating that there is a transparency issue.
Good video, I have an unrelated question though, if I decide to cancel my subscription with Kittl for whatever reason, can I continue to sell any designs I've already created and downloaded from Kittl and have used for pod products on marketplaces or my own website? Or do I lose all rights to continue using those designs once no longer subscribed?
Hey there. So long as you have an active Kittl subscription (even on Free tier) then you retain the licenses to use what you created while you were on a paid plan. If you decide to completely delete your account, you would no longer be able to utilize the active license to use creations from Kittl. (There is never any harm in keeping a Free Kittl subscription 😉).
@@Kittldesign Ok Thank you for that info, there is one woman who posted a video informing her audience that you could continue to use any designs you`ve created even if you decide to cancel your subscription with Kittl, so thank you for clearing that up for me, here`s the video she posted for reference, she talks about it at about the 5:20 mins. mark
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@@Kittldesign Ok Thank you for that info, there is one woman who posted a video informing her audience that you could continue to use any designs you`ve created even if you decide to cancel your subscription with Kittl, so thank you for clearing that up for me, here`s the video she posted for reference, she talks about it at around the 5:20 mins. mark czcams.com/video/Z1qpTEev9Ss/video.html&ab_channel=C.U.Online
How do Kittl designs avoid trademark infringement? For example, the phrase "Good Vibes" among many other common phrases are trademarked on the US trademark site, so if we use a shirt with that phrase on it would we face the possibility of trademark infringement?
Hey there! If you are referencing one of the templates, they are there solely as templates, for you to go and change to a phrase of your choosing and in accordance with trademarking laws. This will always be up to the user to decide and use best judgement.
I'm still have issues with sizing logos/designs for pod
Always make sure to consult the provider for their preferred sizes. Typically there is a web page or PDF with size suggestions, but it may take a little bit of searching to find it.
@@Kittldesign om thanks
is it possible to just download a design and print it on tshirt and sell it?
If you have the means to print it on the shirt than absolutely! We're not exactly sure what you are asking, but the potential is certainly there if you have the tools to do so.
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Hey my friend i love your designs but I'm a trucker and I need designs for truckers do you provide that on the site?
Hey there, I'm not sure we have specific trucker-esque designs, but you can definitely create ones with our rugged and outdoor style elements, and rugged style fonts for sure!
@@Kittldesign ok so you're saying move things around and change elements and fonts to make it look cool and appealing to the trucking industry
@@Keenway Sure. We have a large library of illustrations and elements that I'm sure will fit into that category. :)
I'm totally new into designing where should I start from?
Hey there, we have a ton of great tutorials on our channel for how to get started with design in Kittl, from editing templates, to creating designs from scratch. It is a great way to learn.
What program has templates of cartoon rap artists or characters
We're not sure about that! Sorry!
Hi, can someone use these designs for printify.?
Yes!
very nice; but the suscription to kittl is quite expesnive, t here in south america
Thanks for watching! And thank you for the feedback.
Are these vector files?
Hey there! In Kittl, you can export SVGs, which are vector files.
Am I the only one who thought that the more vibrant colors on the "use less colors" example was better and would rather wear the more colorful design?
Everyone has a preference, certainly!
THese are good tips but only for specific style... for sure not general rules..
Hey there! Thanks for the feedback. We do believe they are great general rules, especially for those looking to start in print on demand! Of course your specific niches and style come into play. Cheers!
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My store is by printify
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That first one is so weird because I hate shirts with full designs. I like minimal.
There are definitely tons of shirt styles!
I just started garment design printing a week ago and my remaining problem seems to be at the design stage. I'm unable to print border less printouts. I don't want to manually cut the print outs as this will not result in smooth, clear designs before transferring. It seems like such a simple problem but I've asked everyone from Rich Kuhn to Mr Santos (experts) about fixing my issues to no avail. I'm starting with the basics, inkjet printer, transfer paper and domestic iron. If I can't produce clean transfers using this equipment I see no reason to invest in the next level of equipment. I'm using online editors like Canva. What am I missing? How do I design/print border-free designs? Thanks! =).
Hey there. I'm not sure we can help further if you've already consulted with one of our collaborators, Rich, who is a master at printing yourself. Generally, the way to print borderless comes from making sure you turn off borders in your print settings. There should be no issues with whatever design platform you are using.
@@Kittldesign And, are you familiar with these printer settings being universal for most/all printers and, do you recommend any printers to achieve these results? Also, are you saying the design process (in any platform) is not a contributor of bordered designs, etc? Thanks! =).
@@Kittldesign Thanks! The more I go through my trial and error with this, I've learned that my main issue has been the transfer paper. I'm using, I guess, basic iron-on paper (requires cutting, peeling, etc). The paper is what is producing backgrounds/borders, obviously. My designs don't have this. I figured the 'experts' would be able to figure out what my trials are and give me the 'bottom line' of how merch designs are made. Looks like my next step is to use DTF or whatever other transfers that will not replicate my issues. =).
Trying to find a video thata speaks of how high a line of text, for example, should be on the canvas. All the way up? Half-way down?... Where's the vertical center o fthe message?, the logo -- whatever.
can i use your design from you website to make t shirt design?
Yes. :)
@@Kittldesign thanks,❤
I need app kittl for my phone..
We're working on it. :) Stay on the lookout for email updates!
@@Kittldesign thank you so much.. 😍
@@mrjadooo8423 Most welcome. :)
how much it cost if I design T-shirts in this programm?
Hey there! You can check out our pricing plans here, and even get started for free to see if you like it: www.kittl.com/pricing
Can I sell svg files of t-shirt design on Etsy?
You cannot sell Kittl SVG files on Etsy to be used for digital use, but if you are creating your own in some other platform or tool, then of course you can. :)
kittl doesnt have 90s rap style tees templates. Its been the hottest thing for the past few years
We do have a ton of 90s streetwear style designs! Maybe not specifically about "rap" but they can be easily edited to do so. Cheers! 😉
@@KittldesignI hear ya, but not just any 90s streetwear. I'm talking about "vintage rap tees" .. check it out, its a specific aesthetic that has been taking over, people have gone beyond rap and added all type of popular figures to them. Kittl might wanna look into that
Is using AI designs on items you sell something that could be a legal issue?
This will depend on the AI you are using, and whether or not it is in beta or not. But with Kittl AI, of course you can use those designs on your products!
@@Kittldesign thank you for responding! It's nice, I was able to create a free trial and goof around with it last night. Might just be a huge help. Thank you!
AI designs are not protected by copyright laws. This comes from USPTO.
Kittle is free or paid ?
We have a free plan and 2 paid plans, as well as a student plan, teacher plan, and enterprise plan.
The rules of t shirt design. Rule number one, there are no rules.
It can be helpful to start with general guidelines, but it is true that sometimes you never know what will succeed!
When we choose a niche, we have to put the design on the same niche. I don't understand this thing
Hey there! We're not sure what you mean specifically, but I believe we have a ton of other helpful videos for you on the channel, for t-shirt design, as well as finding a niche for print on demand or selling on your own.
4:20 literally cant tell the difference between the 2 designs
Sometimes designs can certainly be similar!
16 X 20??? I doubt that most people don't have either a printer or a press that will go that large.
Most print on demand providers can utilize this size! And it's also always better to start bigger and scale down, then to try to do the opposite.
@@Kittldesign I appreciate appreciate all that you do but a great many of us don't have a thousand foot space to work out of or a printer that will do a 4 foot square print or a 10 thousand dollar heat press. Keep us little guys in mind when you are offering assistance. We are the ones needing assistance
So you don't want the design to distract from the design?
If the design perhaps has too much going on and is not legible or understandable, then it could be considered distracting.
How to be totally commercial and just like the next guy. Good luck!
Hey there! Not sure I understand your first sentence, but thanks!
Didn’t you know that’s the first rule of T-Shirt design?!
@@jivydremsa509 is it really? See Cafe Press.
@@Kittldesign of course you don't. Good luck again.
Bruh no can understand it write properly
Using the full layout for everything is lame. If you want to stand out make the size of your design proportional to the shirt. Consider the fact that everything around your design is negative space. It should be considered as part of your design. That means that not every design is going to look cool huge on your shirt. Tee shirts are a form of art, and good art is a balance of nuances. You can spot easily a "Red Bubble" "Society Six" shirt. They ALL use the same template no matter what the design. Next time you see a really cool shirt, like a celebrity wears ... Youll notice it doesnt follow the generic Print On Demand template.
Sure, these are just general tips and guidelines in a long list of potential styles you can utilize for t-shirt designs. Following a format to begin with is helpful for beginners.
Sorry , not understand clearly rule number 1 .Could you explain more how is wrong! Maybe my english is limied to understand , but thanks
Hey there! Tip number 1 is about filling the entire space of the shirt. Many times, users can make the mistake of putting a small design, or an off-centered design on their t-shirt, and they are potentially wasting a lot of valuable space for a design! So we suggest filling the full rectangular shape of a t-shirt with your design. Cheers!
@@Kittldesign ohhh, thanks for your explain again. Appreciate that👍👍👍
Ok so rule number one is put something on the shirt 😂
That's definitely a good start!
Decent advice, but I’d never heard of Kittl before, and you completely lost me at AI.
Thanks. We hope you give Kittl a try, it's free to get started.
@@Kittldesign Does Kittl use uploaded artwork to train its AI?
This is just you're opinion not facts.
Hmm… I really do not like gigantic graphics on the front of a T-shirt it should be confined to the chest area so people can see it.
I suppose this depends on preference!
You have just described how to design a generic T-shirt that so many people copy and paste! So boring! I look for unique designs that go away from this blur print!
Sorry this wasn't for you!
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