How to create a T-shirt design

= General T-shirt design specifications =

= T-SHIRT FINAL FILE FORMAT SPECIFICATIONS =

= RESOURCES =

Suggested Workflow

 * 1) Sketch out a few ideas/concepts and email them to the Fedora Design Team list.
 * 2) Once you've gotten approval on moving forward with one of your designs on the design-team list, import your sketch into Inkscape and import the [#T-Shirt_Mockup_Template T-Shirt mockup template file] into the same Inkscape file. Start implementing your design in Inkscape. Reminder to follow the [#T-SHIRT_DESIGN_SPECIFICATIONS design specifications]!
 * 3) Once you've got a mockup or two or three that you like, email them to the Fedora Design Team list.
 * 4) Once you've gotten approval on one of the designs from the team list, open up the SVG file of your design in Scribus, prep the design for printing using this tutorial. If your T-shirt has two sides, make sure you do this for both sides. Also make sure you set the designs to be the final printing size.
 * 5) Attach all of your final files (Inkscape SVG(s), Scribus SLA(s), and final PDF(s) to the trac ticket associated with the T-shirt design.

Software
You will want to use the following software in creating this design:


 * Inkscape - Inkscape is a free & open source vector graphics program. You'll want to use Inkscape for the bulk of your design work.
 * Scribus - Scribus is a free & open source page layout program. You'll want to use it to convert the Inkscape SVG design you create to a print-ready PDF.
 * MyPaint (optional) - MyPaint is great free & open source software for sketching. You may use it for your sketches or you might just want to draw on paper and scan your sketches in.

All of this software is available in Fedora and is free for download. (yum install inkscape scribus mypaint -y).

Mentorship / Help
At any point if you need help, consider the following two resources:


 * Email The Fedora Design team mailing list [mailto:design-team@lists.fedoraproject.org design-team@lists.fedoraproject.org]
 * More information on the Design Team mailing list
 * Chat: The Fedora Design team IRC channel (#fedora-design at irc.freenode.net)
 * Not sure how to use IRC? Get help here.

Fonts




You'll want to use Comfortaa and/or Cantarell for any text you've got on the T-shirt in most circumstances. Install these on Fedora using the following command:

yum install -y aajohan-comfortaa-fonts abattis-cantarell-fonts

Fedora Logo Artwork
Please make sure you follow the Fedora Logo Usage Guidelines when working with the Fedora logo, please! :) Instructions on acquiring copies of the logo source can be found on that page as well.

T-Shirt Mockup Template


Please feel free to use this T-shirt template to mockup your T-shirt ideas. It was created by Fedora Design Team member Nicu Buculei. You can open it up in Inkscape.


 * Download T-Shirt Template SVG File

= INSPIRATION =

We truly want Fedora shirts to be a street-wearable, fashionable shirts. Hereś some inspiration you might want to take a look at while brainstorming ideas / sketchings.


 * Various Past Fedora T-shirt designs - see the types of T-Shirts that have been designed for Fedora in the past.
 * Threadless - a website and store well-known for its excellent T-shirt designs.
 * Busted Tees - a website and store known for really funny T-shirt designs.