In this video i'm going to talk about color palettes you can use on
black t-shirts and how to find your own. Let's go!
Thanks for joining me on this video my name is Juna with Detour Shirts the channel all about
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hit that subscribe button. In this video i'm going to talk about color palettes but more specifically
color palettes that you can use on black t-shirts. We know that black t-shirts sell the best on a lot
of the print-on-demand sites, especially Merch by Amazon and so these color palettes are designed
especially for black t-shirts so that you can make your design stand out over the other black
t-shirts that are out there right now. So in this video I'm going to teach you how I found these
color palettes and how you can make your own color palettes. So I'm also going to show you different
color palettes that I think are really good for black t-shirts some of the ones that I found
and I'm going to give you the codes for those so you're going to want to stay till the end so you
can see all the color palettes as well as another edition of trend credits so let's get into it.
Let me show you first how i find these color palettes so i wanted to start here first this
is coolers you may have seen this on some of my other videos where you can make your own color
palettes this is a good way to make color palettes but i'm not going to talk about this way because
i've talked about it in other videos so if you want to check out some of my other videos you
can do that or you can you know go on here coolers dot co lots of cool color palettes just make sure
they're light colors to work on a black one and you just want to test it but what i'm gonna do is
something different so what i'm going to do is i'm just going to go to amazon and i'm going to look
at these and figure out which ones have really good colors you can see white of course has the
best contrast on black so you're going to see a lot of white on here red also stands out so you're
going to see lots of red and white combos on black especially during valentine's day and things like
that light yellow is a good one but if you want to go down here i'm going to scroll down and just
click on this one here this is cobra kai don't copy this but you can see it's really nice
the the color scheme i like this color on black so i'm just going to screenshot it right here
and we're not going to copy the design we're just taking the colors after taking a screenshot of
these colors i'm going to bring it into affinity designer and show you how i take those colors so
that i can use them on my design so let's go into affinity designer and i'll show you with
the eye drop tool what i mean so here i am in affinity designer and i got the color palette
here and i can use this eye drop tool in the color palette i'm just gonna hold down my mouse
and then hover over the color that i want you see that yellow there and then when i click
on this one i can change it to that yellow same thing with the white and the red let me get a red
here red and the white is just going to be a white and i like using cmyk because that's the color
scheme that you're going to use when printing anything so printing t-shirts printing posters
anything that's printed is going to be using cmyk so you can see the yellow is 12 cyan 7 magenta 80
yellow and 0k so that's the yellow they're using here and the red is 7 cyan 100 magenta
96 yellow and 1k and then you can use these on black i put this black back here so you can see
how bright it is against a black t-shirt now let me show you the reason why i do cmyk versus rgb
so here are rgb and cmyk colors so rgb colors are colors that are used on monitors
and made with light so you can see here there's a lot more rgb colors than their rcmyk colors
and sometimes there's some rgb colors that cmyk colors cannot match so let's go here i'll show
you what i mean let me switch these to this rgb color so first of all this rgb is if we go to this
rgb right here this is full red 255 red rgb this is the full green 255 green and 255 blue okay
now if i try to match those in cmyk let's go back to cmyk let's see if matching that
you can see here it's it's still the rgb color when i touch it here
that is what's going to happen for your red it's not going to be this bright because you can see
right here it's talking about this red right here that's not inside the cmyk color so that
makes sense so let's do the same for green you can see the green is way up here right and the
highest green that cmyk has is down here so that's what's happening here let's turn this to green
this is the rgb green but if i touch the cmyk you can see that's about the closest
you can get for cmyk and for the blue this super bright blue that's this right here
and if you try to copy that blue on screen you'll see this but when it prints
you're going to see this and that happens with a lot of colors so you can see
rgb what you'll see a lot times are a lot brighter than how it will print in cmyk so just be careful
with that and so that's why i suggest using cmyk colors you're going to see in all these color
palettes that i'm going to show you i'm going to show the cmyk colors not the rgb colors or
the hex code colors because rgb and hex codes are for screens monitors iphones those kinds of
things cmyk colors are for things that are going to print posters paper brochures and t-shirts so
anything like that use cmyk of course we're going to save our designs to png which is rgb colors
so when you save a png with cmyk colors it's going to convert it to rgb but it's going to be
safe in here inside of the cmyk colors and so when you print it you shouldn't have any problems okay
so that's why that's the difference between rgb and cmyk i may do another video if you want more
in depth and you want me to do a more in-depth video leave a comment in the description and i
can but basically if you just remember rgb is for monitors cmyk are for printers i think you'll do
really well all right so now that we know that that we are going to use cmyk colors and not rgb
colors let me show you some of the color palettes that i think will do really well and how i got
them so i'm going to call this the mardi gras color palette mardi gras is coming up you can see
this is using some really bright colors and it's because they probably did this in rgb
these are my cmyk equivalents so i don't have it it doesn't look this bright this is what happened
like i showed before so if you notice some colors on here that don't exactly match this
this is probably rgb colors and i converted it so you can take a screenshot here these are the
cmyk colors for this and this and this and white you can see white is zero zero zero zero this
yellow is mostly yellow and that's another reason i like using cmyk colors it's just really easy to
understand like if it's yellow and magenta you got red if it's cyan and yellow you got green if it's
cyan and magenta you got purple right so simple and of course if you add more black it's just
darker less black is whiter no none of the colors is white right on and that's the opposite for
rgb so i i just love using cmyk it just makes it easier you know more like you're mixing paint so
very easy to understand so this is my mardi gras color you can see some of these right here this
works really well on black because of the bright colors of course white in here has the strongest
contrast but you got some nice contrast here with the yellow too and mardi gras is coming up so
i'll use this color palette go ahead and use it and and have fun with this
you don't have to only use it for mardi gras but it works well so you can see right here
so the next color palette that i want to share with you is this vintage sunset color palette
it's a little more muted than the other one so you can see it's not so bright so this vintage sunset
color palette is trending it's been trending for a while and you can see this is more of an off-white
and kind of a muted rainbow of colors so kind of a muted blue green kind of yellow orange red right
and you can see i took the colors from here but you can see it in a lot of other places but this
is kind of how it would look like on a t-shirt it works really well for vintage stuff so vintage
sunset color palette think of things that you want to make look retro or you know from the 70s
or stuff like that and of course on the sunset on the vintage sunset it works really well so
this is color palette number two vintage sunset color palette so the next color palette i like is
this autumn sunset color palette a little darker but they're using white and blue so it's kind of a
that rainbow but a little darker you can see um you may not want to use this a lot because
this doesn't have a high contrast but it's nice when it's used with all these other colors so
the ones with the most contrast of course are the orange the the blue and the white here so
you can take a screenshot of this and use this color palette on black you can see it looks really
nice here there of course they're using a lot of this orange color right here and some some white
it didn't use a lot of white but it would look really good with white text as well in this one so
you can use your colors interchangeably of course i probably wouldn't use this dark color
for text because it doesn't have the high contrast i would save my text for either
the white the blue or the orange here so that is your autumn sunset color palette use this one as
well for you know vintage sunsets uh more of a darker vintage sunset or things more for autumn
colors like thanksgiving things around there in october this would do really well for that
so uh have fun with this one of course again the cmyk colors here you can see a little more dark
on this one so that is the third color palette so the fourth color palette here i'm calling
magic unicorn color palette you can see this is a little brighter color palette we got your whites
and pinks even the pink does really well on black so that stands out you can see i i would make it
white too so any of these colors right here would do really well on the black for text this one's
probably more of a background color you can see it still stands out on white but i wouldn't use
it for text but this is a great one for unicorns and other maybe little girl kind of things they
this color palette has those pinks and the purples and so do really well for for girl designs
teenage girls as well as younger girls maybe even adult girls depending on what
the design is here but this this color palette works really well for that and it stands out
really nice on black too so anything that you want to color purple or pink
and white you can use this color palette and those are the cmyk colors right there so for my
fifth color palette i'm gonna do this super bright rainbow color palette you can see
this is really great for kids lots of colors in here i didn't put in white but of course white
is being used here that's just going to be cmyk000 but here are a lot of colors on the rainbow
each one of these are great on here you can see it stands out probably the one with the least
contrast is this one right here but all of them have pretty good contrast when it's on the black
they're pretty bright probably the brightest colors on the cmyk just these rainbow of colors
they work really well and of course they work well for these school designs elementary school
and of course these colors would work really well for any rainbow designs too with the white
being clouds in this rainbow here so this is what i'm calling the bright rainbow color palette look
at these cmyk colors take a screenshot of this one and have fun with this one this is going to be a
good one so my last one here i wanted to share with you one of my t-shirts so this is one that i
designed it's called corgi with boba color palette you can see i went really muted on this one
the darkest color i hear is for the corgi but even that has some contrast here
so i used a lot of white because white it has the best contrast on black as you know
it's the opposite of black but you got some light colors here too this one's a lot like the unicorn
one but instead of the dark purples for the unicorn i have this kind of beigey orange kind
of thing for the corgi so that's what i'm using for this and it works really well i would suggest
using it on other things if you have a dog that is this color other things that are this color
and here are the cmyk colors that i used so that is it those are all the color palettes i wanted
to share with you and of course you can find your own color palettes if you find a t-shirt
that you like that has great colors on black just take a screenshot and use your eyedropper
tool and take this colors from it that's exactly what i did for these color palettes i just took
the eyedrop tool and took the colors from here so let's look at all of them again corgi with boba
color palette bright rainbow color palette magic unicorn color palette autumn sunset color palette
vintage sunset color palette probably my favorite probably the one you see a lot
mardi gras color palette as well and of course white yellow reds those are do really well
on black too so that is it for this video thanks so much for watching let me know if
you have a color palette that's your favorite or if you want to see other color palettes
for other t-shirts maybe on a white t-shirt or on a blue or red t-shirt i can do that in another
video as well thanks so much for watching and your reward is another edition of trend credits
Thanks for staying for the trend credits here is your trend, mars landing t-shirt. Take a look
at these BSRs, super low and that's because that happened really recently you can see February 18th
so the rover landed there on mars here and the rover's name is perseverance and you can see a
lot of these right here one thing I would suggest is not to do perseverance I know that you see it
here but that's kind of trademark that's their name and you may not even want to draw or take a
screenshot of that I would say that's that's kind of bad. think of different ways that you
can do it um without using those two things this one right here totally safe it's mars maybe draw
your own mars the word mars and an american flag that's super safe and you can see here
it's getting some low bsrs as well as Merch Informer the competition checker it's saying
it's getting an A so you know it's good but just make sure not to use
trademark things you know I see some NASA things here I would stay away from that so
the word itself perseverance isn't trademarked but when you combine it with mars rover it's kind of
iffy on that so i would just kind of be careful about that of course don't take any screenshots
or things off the internet for the actual rover that would be bad so there's lots of different
ways that you can do this mars landing t-shirt you don't have to copy the exact words here
but just think about different ways where you can have a shirt that's celebrating the mars landing
the dates fine too so this is something that that people will want to celebrate and want
to have a souvenir kind of a remembrance of that date still not too late i don't think if
you do something that's really standing out so i just wanted to share this trend with you because
it's something important in pop culture that also comes onto t-shirts so that is your trend today
mars landing t-shirt think of a way that you can do it that is different and can stand out and that
people that who love these mars rover touchdowns would want to buy thanks so much for watching
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