4 posts tagged “t-shirt”
I've been a little distracted lately. Work has sucked hard this week and I'd been unable to go to my mail drop until today. There were loads of packages waiting for me; I've been ordering stuff off eBay for my various and sundry projects and also Boca Java had sent me another dubiously welcome crate of chai mix. Does anyone want some goddamn chai? I have too much now.
Anyhow, I get home and put my feet up when I get a call from my doctor. Last week's drama of using my vacation time to shuttle back and forth between diagnostic tests has finally ended, they found a cyst and a polyp, they'll have to be watched, blah blah further look into the polyp... oh and then my doc drops the bomb--she's retiring, effective IMMEDIATELY. As in, on Monday I have to find someone else to take me and my medical baggage on and discuss treatment options. My monkey is not pleased.
Anyhow so I spend the rest of the evening angsting and don't even bother to open my packages until right now. I got through my jewelry stuff and realized I ordered the wrong damn size for one set of stones and it's too late to return it because it's been sitting in my mailbox too long. Rargh! The last package is a large one, which I thought would be the sets of sapphire beads I ordered from that new vendor and I had literally ripped open one side of the box before I noticed that the return address said "Coulton".
Kind of amazing. :) I am greatly cheered. Thank you thankyouthankyou JoCo!
And sent off to Scarface this afternoon. I had muchel debate over which T-shirt sets to print this for, but decided that geeks would probably like the color range of the dark T-shirts the best, and so that is the plan now. It actually looks surprisingly good on the women's violet and Caribbean blue, and dashing on the reds for both men's and women's.
BONUS: here's a preview of what the shirts will look like, depending on which color you choose. Violet and light blue are women's only, red and black are for both, and the rest are men's only (why they have so little overlap between the two sets is beyond me).
It took a shit ton of searching on the Cafepress site to finally find the explicit answer to my question, but they won't print white on light-color shirts like they will for black. WTF, can't they just cram all the info on printing into one easy-to-read table instead of spending five paragraphs explaining what dpi is and then slipping in a single sentence about not printing white?
Anyhow, either I need to adjust my image to use on the dark-colored shirts, or use the original colored background on a white shirt--the latter of which will force me the shrink the size of the characters, which is less fun for everyone. I really liked the idea of having the sky be the shirt color because I think it brings out the Mandelbrot cloud quite nicely. On the flip side, I imagine that the wear and tear rate for the design on a white background is less than that on a dark one, where all the colors have to have white in them--but then that just means you have to buy another one sooner, eh?
And there you go.
I decided to keep the colors relatively flat to save my sanity, and also, it just seems to look better that way with these colors. The teal background could be substituted with any other typical pastel shirt colors on cafepress or the such, hopefully.
Annnnnd this is where I start raging against not having my manual kerning. If this design does go to press I would like a chance to redo the letter spacing on this font. But you get the idea, and now i have to go to slee-I mean get ready for work.
