hey guys thanks for joining me for a new
video sorry i'm posting it a little late
i actually just recorded my video for
tomorrow
with juna from detour shirts that video
is going to be about
amazon merch pricing based on some
experiments that we ran
this fourth quarter which is like the
best time of year to run experiments so
look forward to that video tomorrow
but in today's video i'm gonna share
with you some
vintage hex color codes which i realized
i shouldn't have put that in the
thumbnail because that's kind of like a
web developer way of saying
hey i'm going to share with you some
color schemes that look good
on t-shirt designs and none of these are
original essentially what i did is i
went to amazon merch
and i just kind of studied some of the
best-selling shirts
and how they used color and so what
you're gonna see in this video
is me referencing the shirts and then
basically
before i recorded the video i went into
photoshop and color picked
all of the colors kind of in order that
they use them in
because i think it looks really nice and
oftentimes you can use this for like
doing your designs but you can also use
this for text-based
t-shirts like don't overlook that i was
on a consulting call today
and i actually showed a handful of my
shirts that were selling or that sold
today that were selling well
and one of the things i didn't even
think about was how well
text based designs can sell if you just
use some of these like vintage
or i call them vintage it can be any
color scheme really um but if you just
pick good
colors you know the text doesn't have to
just be generic white text
on a black shirt you can get creative so
that's your tip for
today for the intro but let's get
started with this video
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all right so vintage i need to stop
calling it vintage these aren't all
vintage i don't know why i just default
to saying that
but let's look at our color scheme
number one i don't know i i want to call
them like the vintage sunset color
scheme because that's how they're often
used
but they're not all sunsets like for
instance this one is just kind of a
rectangle pattern
and this one is not based on a t-shirt
on amazon merch it's just based on
a pattern that i used in the thumbnail
for this video and i actually pulled it
from the website
all sunsets which i'll put a link in the
description and i'll show you i just
want to show you some of
the patterns that they have on that
website which i'll show you at the end
of the video
just so you get an idea of like what you
can expect if you choose to join because
they've got a lot of good stuff
and a lot of color schemes that you can
borrow too so anyways for
this rainbow color scheme i'm gonna call
it rainbow because i think it is
uh you can see here and i'm not gonna
read you the hex codes
but the hex codes are useful for
any graphic design software that you use
like in canva
you know you can go to the color picker
and copy paste these hex codes into the
color picture
picker and it'll pick that exact color
you know you can do the same in
photoshop photopia
whatever it is that you use they all
pretty much support copy pasting these
hex color codes
me personally when i see these i start
thinking of writing css for websites
but i know that that is a completely
different uh story than
doing print on demand but this is the
type of things we don't we don't we
don't memorize these
but we use these all the time in web
development front end web development
so anyways you have your um you know
dark red kind of shifting to more of a
burnt orange to a light orange to a like
tangerine yellowish
to a yellowish brownish color
and then it switches over to the blues
you got teal switching into a darker
blue and then an even darker blue than
the
secondary teal so that's how i would
describe this and again you know what
i'll do i'll put these in the
description for you as well so you can
grab them
easier the second t-shirt
so this one is selling really well i
guess it's um regarding
rescuing cats and you can see the color
scheme is pretty basic
it's only five colors and what i like
about this
style of color scheme i think this one
can be called vintage i think you can
get away with it
is that unlike the uh well no this one
too
these are kind of like bold colors that
from red to blue like there's a lot of
colors in between
um they're pretty complementary colors
if you go from the extremes
you know like if you look at the
lightest red versus the darkest blue
this color
scheme is very similar so you can see
the only five colors
it goes kind of from an orangish red to
that yellowish
kind of like a dark yellow mixed with
brown maybe to that
tan to the teal to the darker teal
darker blue and one interesting thing
too if you use these kind of color
schemes
in design you can do something similar
to what you see here in this shirt in
that you can like overlay
a silhouette of something like in this
case a cat
and you can either cut out the the
silhouette of the cat so that the
background of the shirt color shows
through or you can just leave it as a
solid color and in this case it looks
like they applied a stroke
to the cat silhouette as well of the red
color
this one mandalorian t-shirt by the way
these are selling really well
i still haven't watched the mandalorian
but everybody keeps talking about how
good it is so
don't worry that will be on the watch
list we've been watching a lot of
christmas movies lately
um but after the holiday passes we'll
get back into uh some some better well
not better but we'll get into some tv
uh i need to watch the mandalorian
essentially is what i mean by that
because i know everybody said it was
amazing
all right so this i am not unlike if
if this was in my top trends of the week
video i you would not want to copy this
right but in the
sense of hey look at the color scheme
you know you can trust that
disney which owns the rights to uh star
wars which owns the rights to the
mandalorian or it takes place in the
star wars universe
that they've hired some of the world's
best designers you know like
if you are struggling from a design
perspective
you don't need to look very far like
literally go and look at the top brands
selling through amazon merch or through
amazon in general
so here again i just looked at the color
scheme
how the colors kind of contrasted and
flowed one into the next
and i came up with another five color
hex uh
i keep saying hex i don't need to say x
but a five color scheme
that i think looks really good and i
really like these what should i call it
kind of like subtle i should have
invited uh my girlfriend to be on this
video with me because she works in like
the art
art space and i feel like she would know
how to describe these colors and
hopefully she doesn't see this video
because she'll make fun of me
but these are kind of like lighter color
schemes more pastel
pastel that's the word i'm thinking of
kind of a pastel yellow flows into that
nice
um orangish i don't know tan dark orange
pink red alright next one and i chose
this shirt
because this is kind of different than
the ones i feel like i've shown
previously maybe not this one
um but the previous two you know the the
rainbow
followed by i wouldn't call this a
rainbow but there's a lot more
these are more like complementary colors
that i think flow nicely together
and then with the mandalorian one
they're all kind of pastels like they
they seem like on the color wheel they'd
be closer together
um you don't have like extremes involved
in the color scheme and this one's kind
of the same right it's it's yellow
orange orange orange red you know so
from yellow to red and the orange is in
between
i picked this design though because it
reminded me of a shirt that i was also
showing
earlier today when i did a consulting
call which by the way you can book calls
with me i don't really
like to take a lot of calls because i do
have a lot of work to do but there is a
link in the description where you can
essentially pay
for my time and i can help you with
anything that i bring expertise to so
that's why i keep saying these
consulting calls
did a couple of them today uh but
anyways i was showing some of my
personal designs that had sold recently
and i have a design that is completely
unrelated to the lion king
but very related to the sunset
graphic that you see there imagine
there's no silhouettes so i have a
sunset graphic
that i've used in conjunction with
automate pod
which is that chrome extension that can
automate the design process
and for whatever reason uh man maybe one
day i'll just show you the design
the issue is i just don't want anybody
like reporting my designs and then
getting me removed from amazon merch
because it only takes like one person
that's
knows how to do that and then i i'm just
screwed you know
look at my etsy videos if you don't
believe me so
i used a design though where i'll even
tell you so what i did differently when
i used this sort of a
theme with that graphic style was i used
a gradient
in the lettering which i don't do
commonly
but i decided to do it with a couple
different design styles
like i'm still not doing it most of the
time but i did it with like this theme
of a design again not lion king just
talking about like the color scheme and
the sunset
looked very similar to this one and the
gradient
in the text i think like people really
liked because it's made a bunch of sales
it makes almost daily sales
on amazon merch so just throwing it out
there maybe experiment with some
gradient overlays on your text
the one thing i'd say is be strategic
with the colors of the shirts you make
it available for sale on
like if i'm doing gradient text i don't
want to
list that design on a bunch of colors of
shirts like i only want to use colors of
shirts where i know it's going to
contrast
really well really bold so i'm pretty
sure
i mean i can double check but i i know
you guys don't care that much but i'm
pretty sure i only selected black color
t-shirts
for that design like for that design
style because i knew that the best
contrast i was going to get out of this
color scheme
that involves you know yellow to oranges
to red was against that black colored
shirt so i'm pretty sure that's what i
did and it's working so
uh this one is a mountain uh well the
mountain i guess doesn't matter that's
just a silhouette or not even a
silhouette actually it's a graphic
overlaid on the um
the very soft kind of again softer color
pastel
range in this color scheme it goes from
a light kind of pastel blue
to a green to a tan to an orange to a
light red
to a darker red and i'm a big fan of
this color scheme i think it looks great
and then the last one for this video
this one i had some fun with here i
grabbed a design from
thor and again this is some of the best
designers in the world creating these
designs
but uh this they had some fun this
brings to mind
some like miami vice kind of vibes
with the electric colors and
i'm not even gonna try to describe it if
you guys are listening to the podcast
because i do
release this in audio format um just
think of miami vice think of the
electric blues to the electric purples
to the electric pinks is essentially
what they did for this thor ragnarok
shirt and i'm loving this color scheme
even though i don't think i have the
skill to execute well
using it but i just wanted to share it
all right and then i told you i'd
mention all sunsets really quickly so
there's a link in the description if you
do end up signing up you know it
supports the channel a little bit
but all sunsets i use them for virtually
unless i'm doing a text only design
i'm using them for probably four out of
every five
designs that i create and what's great
about them number one is that they're
affordable like you get a one year
license
for 27 normally but if you join between
now and the end of the 2020 the end of
the year i think they're still running a
sale
where it's like 18 or 19 to join so it's
like a dollar and change
per month and it's just build up front
so anyways check them out link in the
description if you want to
people have asked me like what do i get
when i join so here's a couple
screenshots of like the graphics that
they make available
um as you can see they just have like
various styles of these sunsets that
again you can pretty much just download
drag drop into your
t-shirt designing template and then add
some text you know that's pretty much it
that's what i do if you're wondering
like what i do and by the way i'm not
claiming to be the best
t-shirt designer ever like i said
tomorrow i'm doing my
video with juno from detour shirts he's
a designer so he crushes me when it
comes to design but i'm leveling the
playing field a little bit
by using the professional graphic
designers at all sunsets
the graphics that they create and again
it's like less than 20
for a year and when you join for a year
you get access to all the graphics that
already exist and all the ones that will
exist
from the day you join plus one year so
it's a pretty good deal so here's some
more
of their graphics as you can see variety
it's not just the same style some of the
graphics like melt
out of the actual sunset in the
background lots of different color
schemes etc
and when you get the uh the sunsets that
don't have anything other than the
sunset
again it's very easy to then overlay
another image
a silhouette and then cut that out and
then you've got a custom sunset with the
silhouette in it so you can do editing
to these graphics and
it's pretty easy all right and that's it
last thing i just wanted to remind you i
have a full print on demand course
10 modules over 100 lectures showing how
i make six figure
um print on demand sales each year and
i've made six figure profits since i
started my journey so
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that course if you're interested
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