Spreadshirt-Designer: Guide

What is the Spreadshirt Designer and how can I make my own t-shirt here?

With the Spreadshirt Designer you can design and order your own t-shirts and other products from our apparel assortment. There is no minimum order: you're free to order just one, individually printed shirt.

  1. Choose a t-shirt from our selection. You don’t know which size you need? Find out by clicking on the small information mark next to the product name. Details of the weight and manufacturing can be found there as well.
  2. Choose a design. You can upload your own photography, or pick one out from our Design Network (see Spreadshirt Marketplace). To find out which designs you can upload to the Spreadshirt Designer, have a look at this FAQ item. For basic info on designs for Spreadshirt, click here.
  3. But text can also be nice. Choose a font and write what you want. Your design and text can be turned, mirrored or enlarged within the given print area.
  4. Once the t-shirt looks like you want, proceed to check out and order it.


Every personally designed article is an original: Your design will be placed on the t-shirt according to your instructions. Since this action is not automated, it is possible that there could be minor alterations. Also, it's possible that the design will look smaller or larger in reality. This is because the t-shirt example shown is always a fixed size (often "medium", sometimes "small").

See how the final price of your t-shirt is calculated. Read the explanation here.

The approved design is larger than the design I submitted. Why?

Vector graphics must meet certain minimum requirements before they can be printed. Line width is a very important minimum requirement: all elements in a design must have a minimum line width of .06 inches; the space between elements must be at least .04 inches wide.

Elements and lines which are smaller than this minimum requirement are very difficult to print. Additionally, they do not adhere well to the shirt and can easily fall off.

To avoid rejecting design because they have elements which are too small, we increase their size within the printable area until they have reached the necessary line width. The printable area for most products is 11.8 x 11.8 inches.

Questions about your design? Contact our Service Team

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