What to have in mind if you want design a custom printed T-shirt? How to express yourself creatively and create T-shirt design by yourself using predefined T-shirt templates? An awesome T-shirt could bring you some benefits and even income if your design will be well enough. Read tips, principles and rules on how to design proper custom T-shirt.

• Your T-shirt should include real theme or message in the design that are easy to understand
• Your T-shirt design should be artistic and innovative
• For inspiration look at the T-shirts that have won contests and are being sold
• You should use the right template to submit order for that particular site
• Use only copyright/permission free images or have permission to use the images
• Don’t use to many colors (not more than 4 or 8 including black and white).
• Use different shades of the same color or monochromatic colors.
• Don’t use a gradient, most places won’t accept this.
• Avoid designs that have too much text.
• Add to your T-shirt design more than just a sentence written with appealing font.
• Make proper resolution design, not pixelated or blurry design.
• Don’t offender older people or kids by off-color jokes.
• Avoid using special printing techniques to make this way something standing out.
• Do not re-submit your T-shirt design many times