Man wearing a custom screen printed Olive Branch Apparel logo t-shirt

Design Your Own Shirt, Right Here In Your Browser

Design your own shirt without a designer, a form, or a phone call. Upload a logo, drop in text, or start from a blank tee and build it here. Custom t-shirt pricing updates as you change the quantity and the print locations.

Every shirt you design gets a proof before anything runs. You see exactly what we are about to print, and nothing gets made until you say yes.

Design Your Own Shirt Below

Design your own t-shirt from a blank, drop your artwork on it, set your quantity, and watch the per-shirt price settle. This is the same studio we use for every custom t-shirt order, loaded with a soft retail-fit tee to start.

No minimum orderOne shirt is fine. The price per shirt just drops fast once you add more.
Proof before we printYou see exactly what runs and you approve it. Nothing gets made until you say yes.
About 14 daysStandard turnaround from the day you approve the proof, printed and shipped.
Fort Collins, ColoradoReal shop, real people. Call and you'll get one of them.

Designing Your Own Shirt Without A Design Background

You do not need software or a designer to design your own t-shirt. Upload a PNG, a JPG, or a vector file and drag it where you want it. If all you have is a rough idea, start with text and a shape and see how it sits on a real garment.

The part most people get wrong is scale. A logo that looks right on a screen often prints smaller than expected on a shirt. The studio shows your artwork against an actual blank at actual size, so what you see on screen is what lands on the shirt.

Best blank for a custom t-shirt A soft retail-fit tee in combed ring-spun cotton. It takes ink cleanly and people actually keep wearing it.
Standard print size Full front runs roughly 11 to 12 inches wide. Left chest sits around 3 to 4 inches.
Typical custom shirt order Personal orders run 1 to 12. Team and event orders usually land between 24 and 100.
Turnaround About 14 days from the day you approve the proof, printed and shipped.
Minimum order There is no minimum. One shirt is a real order.

What You Can Upload, And What We Fix

Vector art gives the cleanest result, but almost nobody has it on hand. A high resolution PNG or a photo of an existing shirt is usually enough for us to work from, and we will tell you before printing if something will not hold at the size you have chosen.

Fine lines, tiny text, and gradients behave differently in screen printing than they do on a monitor. If your design needs a change to print well, we tell you what and why rather than printing something you will be unhappy with.

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Custom Graphic Tees

Design your own shirt with a full front graphic. The biggest print area on the garment and the one people notice first.

Barista in a custom screen printed Dark Star Coffee Co t-shirt

Staff And Uniform Shirts

Left chest logo, back print, or both. Design one, then reorder the same shirt whenever you hire.

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Merch You Can Sell

Design a shirt people will pay for rather than one they are handed. Heavier blanks, better prints.

How it works

From your logo to a boxed order, in six steps

You approve a proof before anything runs. Nothing gets made until you say yes.

  1. 1

    Pick your garment

    Three we actually recommend, with the reasons why. Full catalog is one click away.

  2. 2

    Drop in your art

    Upload a logo or start from a sketch. We fix files that will not print.

  3. 3

    See your price

    Per-piece pricing moves as you change quantity and print locations.

  4. 4

    Approve a proof

    Nothing runs until you have seen exactly what we are about to make.

  5. 5

    We print it

    Screen print, embroidery or DTF, whichever your art and quantity call for.

  6. 6

    It ships

    About 14 days from the day you approve the proof, printed and boxed.

Know what your shirt costs before you design it.

Set a quantity and watch the per-shirt price settle. No form, no waiting on a rep.

Why Olive Branch Apparel

No minimum on shirts

One shirt is a real order. The per-shirt price drops fast as you add more, and the studio shows you exactly where the breaks land.

Your art, your placement

Drag it where you want it and see it at actual size on a real blank. No mockup guesswork and no back and forth over email.

A price before a phone call

Set the count and the per-shirt number appears. No form to fill in and nobody to wait on.

We fix files that will not print

Send the best version you have. If it will not hold at the size you picked, we tell you before we print it rather than after.

How Many Custom Shirts You Actually Have To Order

One. There is no minimum on custom t-shirts here, so a single shirt for yourself is a real order. The per-shirt price does drop sharply as the count goes up, which is why most orders land between 12 and 48 pieces.

You can change the quantity at any point while you design. The price on screen moves with it, so you can see exactly where the breaks fall before committing to anything.

Screen Print Or DTF On Your Custom Shirt

Screen printing suits larger runs and designs with a low color count. It lays down a thicker, more durable ink and gets cheaper per shirt the more you order, which is why it is the default for team shirts and merch runs.

DTF handles full color artwork and small runs without setup charges per color. If you designed something with a photograph, a gradient, or a dozen colors in it, this is usually the method that makes sense.

Where The Shirt You Design Actually Ends Up

Most people who set out to make your own shirt fall into one of four buckets, and the bucket changes the blank more than the artwork does. People who design your own t-shirt for themselves, as a one-off or a gift, want the softest tee they can get because there is only one of them and nobody is counting pennies.

Team and event shirts want the opposite. You are buying forty of something that gets worn once or twice, so a heavy cotton blank at the lowest sensible price does the job. Staff shirts sit in between, because they get washed constantly and need to still look presentable in month six.

Merch is its own category. If somebody is handing over money for the shirt, the blank has to justify it. That is where a heavier garment-dyed tee earns its extra cost, because a custom t-shirt design on a cheap blank is the fastest way to have a table full of unsold stock at the end of the night.

Not sure which blank to pick?

Tell us what the shirts are for and roughly how many. We will point you at the right one.

Design Your Own Shirt Questions

How do I make my own shirt without a designer?

Upload whatever art you have into the studio above and drag it onto the blank. If you have nothing yet, start with text and a shape. You are working against a real garment at real size, so what you see is what gets printed. Nobody needs design software to make your own shirt here.

What is the cheapest way to make custom t-shirts?

One color, one location, on a heavy cotton blank, in the largest quantity you can genuinely use. Screen printing gets dramatically cheaper per shirt as the run grows, and every extra ink color and print location adds cost. The studio shows the effect of each choice as you make it.

Can I order just one custom shirt?

Yes. A single shirt is a real order here. Expect to pay considerably more per shirt than a run of fifty, because setup is the same either way.

What resolution does my artwork need to be?

Aim for at least 300 dpi at the size it will print, so roughly 3300 pixels wide for a full front. Vector art is better still because it scales without softening. Send us what you have and we will tell you whether it holds.

Should I choose screen printing or DTF for my design?

Count the colors. Three or fewer on a run of two dozen or more, screen print. Photographs, gradients, or a dozen colors on a small run, DTF. If you are unsure, design it first and we will tell you which method your artwork actually calls for.

How fast can I get custom shirts?

Roughly two weeks from the day you approve the proof. Tell us your date before you order and we will say plainly whether it is achievable rather than finding out late.

Talk to a person

Weekdays 9am to 5pm Mountain.

(860) 885-8025

Where we are

Olive Branch Apparel
706 East Stuart Street
Fort Collins, CO 80525

Send us the details

Artwork, quantities, deadline. Whatever you have.

olivebranchgrowth@gmail.com

Design Your Own Shirt Now

Build it above and see your price as you go, or send us the details and we will set it up with you.