hey what's up guys in today's video I
want to talk about creating
print-on-demand designs in Kittle which
is a very user-friendly web-based app
for design I want to focus on color
schemes this is probably if not the most
common then right there like number two
most common uh area for improvement from
what I've seen recently because I do
love to help you know what I mean when I
see uh comments about oh I can't make
sales I mean often I just say hey can
you email me a couple links to your
listing and I like to see what's going
on and like what people are struggling
with it helps me make better videos I
really think color schemes color
selection
um and and I mean Beyond just in scope
like it's not just hey pick a better
color it's well what color is the
product you're selling it on you know
what I mean there's this concept of
contrast is the color you're using in
the foreground in the design gonna
contrast well against the product you're
displaying it on these little things
they matter all right especially at
scale when you're posting hopefully
multiple products a day to your online
stores especially now in December so I
checked yesterday my Amazon merch sales
I did over 500 royalties just yesterday
on Amazon merch and over half of them
were text based uh like primary if not
solely text-based designs guys so you
can really succeed with text and my main
focus at least when I'm talking about
designs I mean I'm typically slanted
towards text-based designs but we're
going to look at Kittle they obviously
have pre-made Graphics pre-made
templates uh we're gonna focus on using
good color schemes that's the plan for
the video let's get to it
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group that I hope you'll join if you're
not already a member alright guys so we
are here on Kittle and before I get into
the design aspect I just wanted to kind
of zoom out for a second because I know
most of us are print-on-demand sellers
we see Kittle through the lens of print
on demand sellers that want to make
sales but you can also use Kittle for
other things like they have logo
templates label templates uh t-shirt
templates which is a great thing for us
poster templates card templates social
media templates so Kittle you know has a
lot of like all-around use cases for for
for us uh but we're going to probably be
looking at you know t-shirts so quick
reminder like you can always just look
at the pre-made templates and I mean
obviously it opens the door to infinite
customizations like I have multiple
computer monitors so what I might do is
have Kittle on one screen and then on
side monitor here or here just be
scrolling through Etsy Amazon for sub
Niche ideas based on what I see the
template built out for so for instance
like a standard generic like Christmas
one right here with Santa Claus
you know and I can go on a side Monitor
and look at what other sub niches cross
niches people are doing in 2022 with
Santa Claus as just an example but I
wanted to focus on color schemes and
actually really quickly let's take a
look at this one
I noticed you guys who watch every video
that I post you have seen me say this uh
quite a bit recently actually that
oftentimes like when people are using
colors like red like there's like really
bold colors within
um red as a color you know different
Hues right uh the I always recommend if
you're gonna use colors that have the
potential to be really strong like red
that you use a lighter like softer Hue
of that color like you see in this case
uh this one is definitely not over the
top I would say it's not like so bright
that it hurts your eyes to look at and
if you had to sell this design against a
um black shirt which is probably one of
the most common uh or you know in this
case too you might want to even just
turn off the background I mean this
background you could say is
representative of being sold against a
red shirt and by the way in Kittle you
can switch up the background color to
preview how your designs would look
against different colored products which
is a great option
so that you know what colors to enable
when you're posting these for sale to
you know whatever Marketplace you're
listing on but you can see this design
just in this design template looks great
against a number of different colors and
that's always nice
so with regards to making better color
choices always have a primary at least
like choose a primary colored product
that you want to sell this design on
it's especially important in Etsy I
would say because you know if you're
doing Amazon merch and you make the
color black available which is the most
popular color on Amazon merch well you
know the primary thumbnail is going to
be black but if it's on Etsy you can
sell it on green on red on black but you
know your primary thumbnail is the one
that needs to look the best because
that's the one that people see in search
results where they've got you know so
many choices between you and everybody
else so I would recommend that and then
when you see a color scheme that you
like go ahead and like save the actual
color scheme so with Kittle in this case
again like leveraging these templates
that are made by a lot of really great
designers you can actually click into
the design elements in Kittle and then
notice over here on the right hand side
like above me
they actually show you the colors being
used so let's say that you want to
improve your design process and like
we'll start with a blank template in a
second and kind of maybe Implement some
of these colors but just wanted to show
you can click these colors and number
one you can change them but number two
you can actually just like grab the hex
code and then you can go into notepad or
whatever like for me I use Google keep
so it lets me save notes on my phone but
it also lets me say it syncs those notes
to the cloud so then I can tab over to
my side monitor open up Google Keep
and see those uh color codes like
anywhere that I want them so if I like
this color red like I'll save it and
I'll write you know a little tag next to
it that says Christmas red you know what
I mean but what I see a little too often
is people using Reds that may be that
might be like uh just way too strong you
know what I mean like this and you've
seen me do Shop reviews where I'm like
uh you gotta scale that back a little
bit you know what I mean it's it's it's
too bold I don't know what else to say
it's too bold
um so yeah you don't want to be doing
that now with regards to Kittle let me
start with the blank slate like this is
probably how I would go about creating a
text only design and by the way I'm
making like I'm literally like making
text only designs I've been making them
today you know what I mean and I've been
using upload automation today because
it's December it's crunch time you know
I'm always working but um especially in
December it's like I got that fire lit
underneath me to really push all right
so the first thing I'll probably do is
Click into the canvas and just change
the background color to Black I'm
typically optimizing for Amazon merch so
I want my designs to look good against a
black T-shirt because like we just said
it's the most popular shirt color and
it's going to be the primary on merch if
we make it available so now I might go
over here to text and just click Text
and they've got some pre-built um like
text pairings already put together for
us if you don't like the you know first
couple that you see you can click show
all and you'll notice that there are a
bunch of different font pairings now
what I'm going to share with you right
now may seem like it's too easy and too
good to be true but I promise you this
is right along the lines with what I do
on a regular basis that makes me a ton
of sales especially on Amazon merch
where I mentioned I made over 500 in
royalties on the US market just
yesterday in one day but I like to do
something like this where I just add
some text to my design template I'm
going to set it to white but we're going
to you know customize the colors in a
second here all right now let's pretend
that we already did Niche research I'm
not this isn't a niche research video
it's a design video but let's pretend we
did some Niche research and whatever
Niche that we decided that we are going
to enter with this text-based design
um it's got four lines of text all right
so perfect the Kittle you know text
template that we're using it's called a
text template it already has four lines
of text so now all we really need to do
to make this design look a little bit
better and it's not even required I mean
I sell plenty of uh just white text
against dark colored t-shirt you know
again optimized for black but what you
can do then is go find a nice
complementary color scheme that looks
good against
the color you intend to be in your
primary thumbnail I keep trying to pick
the right words because even though I
look at most things through the scope of
Amazon merch I know a lot of you guys
aren't on merch yet but you're on Etsy
and on Etsy you don't need to always be
optimizing for a black shirt you can
make it any color so I just want to make
sure like pick a color set it to your
back you know in this case let's say
okay we're gonna do it on Etsy we're
gonna do it on a uh red shirt okay like
a maroon shirt or let's say Cardinal
that's probably more like Cardinal okay
um now that's going to complicate things
a little bit for us but you can go to
somewhere like Adobe
color.adobe.com they've got color
generators for you here as well
all right that's one way to get color
schemes another way and actually would
prefer colormind colormind.co this is
completely free and you can just click
generate there's a generate button and
it will continuously generate color
schemes for you to use in your design
and all I'm going to do is Click until I
think I found one that will look good
against our you know maroon uh shirt you
know what I mean and we'll we'll pretend
theoretically that we're uploading this
to Etsy all right so how about this and
you can keep scrolling
and
eventually we'll find something that we
like that we think will look good uh
it's a little bit tricky with the maroon
like we probably need something a little
bit lighter but how about this so how
about we grab this um I don't even know
what color to call it but this kind of
cream color all right let's jump back
over here and make the uh top font right
here
make this maroon okay
so I just copy paste the color code
right there and it did shift from white
to
um did I say maroon to
the cream all right next let's try this
one next to it okay
and let's try to do that on the primary
keyword here
all right I think that looks okay
actually it's not looking too bad
um the green I don't know if that's
gonna look great so I might actually
hold off on that and I might come to
maybe this like purple
all right so I'm going to use this it's
almost like a violet or like a really
light purple so I'm gonna change the
color to
purple right there
and then here for the last color I'm
thinking this like off-white almost
might look good
um again it's really open to
interpretation guys
all right and I'm gonna copy paste the
hex code fat off white and for a maroon
shirt which is not that common I think
we found four complementary colors uh
you're gonna have a much easier time
just optimizing for like a black shirt
or a white shirt for instance because
um there's just a lot more complimentary
colors at least in my mind uh against
those but either way like the real
purpose of this video is number one to
show you that in Kittle you can use
these pre-made font pairings or like I
said go back to the um this is where
honestly I spend most of my time here if
I want to do a more complex design
selecting a pre-made template and going
from there as you can see here by the
way a lot of these templates have great
complementary colors already selected
for you and you can even just go ahead
go in here you can you can actually use
your Google developer your Google Chrome
developer console and use the eyedropper
from there and select these colors
um there's no easy button in there
otherwise I would show you how to do it
I don't want to add another minute to
this video but you can do that and just
grab the hex color codes and then pull
them into your design templates as well
I always lean text only when I'm
starting scratch just because I mean I
sell so many that I know it works and
while so many people think oh it's print
on demand it's a t-shirt we have to
introduce some complicated graphic I
always like to remind you that you
definitely don't and it's nice to be a
little contrarian I always talk about
being contrarian when you see people all
doing the exact same thing even in like
a niche like Christmas where everybody's
got the Santa graphics with the trees
mixed in and the Snowballs and it's like
everything's the style of an ugly
Christmas sweater it's like well how
about
stop zoom out and say well what if I'm
one of the very few text only designs in
this space because somebody might like
that you know they might be more like a
minimalist in how they prefer to wear
their apparel so anyways guys I I could
I could talk all day about this stuff as
you can see um but that's really what I
wanted to illustrate Kittle makes it
easy
um in reality I would go open up another
tab find an actual Niche where I would
go in and switch out this text instead
of just keeping the default where it
says 1989 blacksmith Brewery hopefully
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