Hi there everyone! As Bryan threatened, I'm chiming in. Things I know: You want shirts before SCALE on Jan 21st. You would like colors to reflect the Snowdrift design guide. You would like people to actually wear the t-shirts.
Things I don't know: What is your budget? How many shirts would you like to have on hand? How about a few women's cut shirts thrown in? Do you want organic/green production or the cheapest available? Some comments: Your website design guide is cohesive and clean, and for a lot of people, hard to wear. I've seen some comments suggesting white or blue shirts and here's what I think: There are a few colors that are universally wearable, including teal, true red, aubergine, and deep coral. The closest thing you have to any of those is your "dark blue", so let's work with that. Your "dark blue" is a muted, slightly warm, deep blue, definitely leaning towards a teal. Most t-shirt companies start with standard shirts and can customize ink colors more readily. So going with a "blue" shirt will most likely give you a true royal or navy, and that doesn't fit the bill. In general, I'd say that white t-shirts look like underwear, but for some people, it may work as a logo shirt if the fabric is thick enough. The real issue with getting people to wear your shirts is that what looks good on a grey eyed caucasian is not going to look good on a swarthy Italian. I think you need a minimum of two colors. Go for a cooler, lighter shirt and a darker, warmer shirt. I suggest a charcoal grey and white as shirt colors with judicious use of your guide colors and perhaps the addition of a warmer accent such as true red or chrome yellow on the charcoal. You have a lot of cute designs and a great logo. It would be easy to run with those designs and just pick the right colors. Bottom line: I'm willing to help and I'm sure I can come up with some great options! There are companies in town with really quick turn around, and you could see samples before committing. I'm totally nuts about color and can steer you right. Diana On Fri, Dec 4, 2015 at 12:55 PM, Bryan Richter <b...@chreekat.net> wrote: > On Fri, Dec 04, 2015 at 07:43:14PM +0100, mray wrote: > > > > > > On 01.12.2015 21:53, Bryan Richter wrote: > > > Well, after saying that, I *do* prefer white over some shades of gray. > > > > > > No terrible cultural reference intended. > > > > > > From my perspective, I'd like to offer at least two colors (maybe > > > neutral and blue?), if not more. > > > > > > Robert, I suppose I'm not certain about your style guide. Is that > > > *just* a guide for the web? E.g. would it be a bad idea to use a > > > monochrome logo on top of a selection of colors better suited to > > > humans that to websites? > > > > > > > The guide has online use in mind and does not specifically treat other > > media types. But even having the differences of printing and RGB display > > in mind some things should remain as similar as possible. Namely the > > colors. Introducing gray is not preferable if there is an option to use > > our blue, but ultimately nothing is thought to be a law that cannot be > > broken. it is just an order of preferences. > > > > I might prefer a clean grayscale shirt better to one where we would have > > to use a strange blue that does not resemble our blue for example. > > As mentioned in IRC, I've enlisted my mother (Diana Connolly) to help > with colors. She's joined this list and should chime in momentarily. > :) > > _______________________________________________ > Design mailing list > Design@lists.snowdrift.coop > https://lists.snowdrift.coop/mailman/listinfo/design > >
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