Colors and Other Nitbits

Here are some of the guideline that you must follow to if you want to submit a design. These are also found on Shirt.Woot.com and under FAQ for their site.

• Maximum 16" x 20" design dimensions
• Use our official shirt templates as a guide:
• Use Pantone Solid Coated color swatches for your design or else we will have to convert your colors
• Maximum of 6 spot colors
• Gradients and halftones are strongly discouraged (for now)

Along with some PDFs and other files, everything is provided to make sure that you have the right information to submit your design properly. They will not except anything less than.
The reason for only allowing six colors is for cost efficiency. The more colors printed on the shirt the more it is going to cost. If the shirt is only going to be sold for 10 dollars than this is very vital.

The reason to avoid gradients and halftones is because of print also. However, instead of this being a cost issue, it is more because it will be printed on a t-shirt. Meaning, to print, a special t-shirt print is used. This printer prints using little dots making gradients impossible to print. So if you are going for that effect then try using a pointillism method.