Unisex short sleeve- Image to shirt size comparison chart

Like my previous colour chart forum thread, I’ve tried something else to take the guess work out of designing for Red Bubble t-shirts.

This time I’m comparing the unchanging maximum print area (2400px x 3200px @ 200dpi = 30.48cm x 40.64cm or 12inches x 16inches) to the varying sizes of the Unisex shirt sleeve t-shirt, which ranges from S up to XXXL.

This should help you envisage how your design will look across the varying shirt sizes. As you can see because of the unchanging print area, things look considerably different when comparing S to XXXL.

To RedBubble, I’ve made every effort to get these measurements exact as possible. If you notice any errors, please let me know.

Below: The blue area represents the maximum unchanging print area. As a result, the larger the t-shirt the more empty space surrounds the design.

Note: The shirt preview we see on Redbubble is based on the Large size.

Below: Here you can see how the same design at the same size looks on the smallest and largest t-shirt.

For a larger version of the Blue square chart, you can download from the link below (copy and paste address in your browser)-

http://img144.imageshack.us/img144/2117/unisexsizecomparisonzr3.jpg

Thanks Shelley. The preview we see is for the large shirt.

Thanks for raising that question. I’ll add that info to the main text.

yes this is really fabulous.

thankyou for this!

perhaps this post should be stickied or put somewhere more obvious because it is very handy info?

Should I assume that a design for a black shirt would be artwork floating on transparent background, art masked behind in white? I just arrived at the Bubble…

nice

Exactly the help I was looking for today. Thank you.

Me applause also!

But Q to RB: Is there a change via computer-database to make automatized workflow for that image to resize to shirt?

Then the whole result would be more accurate for both, us and the customer?

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