anthony165•1mo agoProlific Poster

Honestly, I just wasted $150 on a custom t-shirt order because the design relied only on red and green shades.

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Feel that pain. I once tried to get a shirt printed with a cool sunset gradient, just oranges and reds. The final product looked like a single, weird peach-colored blob. My buddy asked if it was a shirt for a discount juice brand. Learned the hard way that some colors just turn to mud without the right contrast.

green.mason1mo ago

Yeah, gradients are a total trap on shirts. You gotta force more contrast than you think. Like, if you want a sunset, throw in a deep purple or a dark blue at the top, not just orange to red. That keeps it from looking like a flat peach mess. I always add a black outline between colors now, even a thin one, just to make the shift clear. It feels wrong on the screen but prints way better.

shah.evan1mo ago

Totally agree about the black outline thing. I mean, it sounds like a weird fix but it really does save the whole design. I tried a gradient without it once and the colors just bled together into nothing. Now I always add that thin line, even if it looks a bit harsh on my screen. It just makes sure the print actually looks like what you wanted.