Design Guidelines: Embroidery

Embroidery is stitched into the garment with thread rather than printed, so designs need to be bold and simple to stitch cleanly.

Artwork

• Send clear, high-contrast artwork (vector or a high-resolution PNG) — our team converts it into a digitised stitch file
• Colours: up to 6 thread colours for flat embroidery; up to 2 for 3D (puff) embroidery on caps

Minimum sizes

• Line width: 1.25 mm (flat) / 7.5 mm (3D)
• Lettering: around 5 mm per letter
• Typical areas: ~10 × 10 cm on clothing, 12 × 5 cm on caps, 11 × 4 cm on beanies

Works well vs. avoid

• Works well: bold shapes, thick lines, solid fills and readable type
• Avoid: fine detail, tiny text, gradients and large empty (negative-space) areas