# Made Up Merch > 27 small sites for making weird custom merch: a pillow shaped like your mountains, a yacht club hat for your one problem, your pet knitted into a sweater. Made Up Merch is one website with 27 make-your-own print-on-demand sites, each at https://madeupmerch.jackmccarthy020.workers.dev//. On each one you design one kind of thing in the browser and see the real design as you go. Printful prints each order on demand. Ordering is closed for now on every site; the design tools work. The guides answer "how do I make a custom X" (https://madeupmerch.jackmccarthy020.workers.dev/how-to/) and "what should I get for Y" (https://madeupmerch.jackmccarthy020.workers.dev/ideas/). The learn pages (https://madeupmerch.jackmccarthy020.workers.dev/learn/) are for people making and selling print-on-demand merch with AI: print files, fonts, copyright, trademarks and marketplace rules, each with sources. Every guide is also plain markdown: add index.md to its URL (for example https://madeupmerch.jackmccarthy020.workers.dev/how-to/design-a-custom-embroidered-hat/index.md). ## Sites - [The Skyline](https://madeupmerch.jackmccarthy020.workers.dev/skyline/): Drop a pin. Get a pillow shaped like the mountains you see from there. Makes: Shaped pillow. - [Home Sweet Pillow](https://madeupmerch.jackmccarthy020.workers.dev/house/): A photo of a house becomes a pillow cut along its roof. Makes: Shaped pillow. - [Big Snack](https://madeupmerch.jackmccarthy020.workers.dev/snack/): Type your usual order. Get it as a giant pillow. Makes: Shaped pillow, stickers, magnets. - [Left On Read](https://madeupmerch.jackmccarthy020.workers.dev/bubble/): A text message as a pillow, read receipt and all. Makes: Shaped pillow, stickers, magnets. - [Big Head](https://madeupmerch.jackmccarthy020.workers.dev/bighead/): Their head, huge, like the cutouts at a game. Makes: Shaped pillow. - [The Club](https://madeupmerch.jackmccarthy020.workers.dev/club/): A fake yacht club for your one problem, with a Latin motto. Makes: Embroidered hat, beanie or patch. - [Merit Badges](https://madeupmerch.jackmccarthy020.workers.dev/badges/): Scout badges for grown-up stuff, like doing your taxes. Makes: Sticker sheet, holo sticker or patch. - [Ugly Sweater](https://madeupmerch.jackmccarthy020.workers.dev/sweater/): Your pet's face, knitted into a holiday sweater. Makes: Knit sweater, pet sweater, beanie. - [Shirt Says](https://madeupmerch.jackmccarthy020.workers.dev/says/): Type what it says. Pick how it looks. Makes: Tee, long sleeve, crewneck or hoodie. - [Nutrition Facts](https://madeupmerch.jackmccarthy020.workers.dev/facts/): Your person as a nutrition label. Serving size: 1 dad. Makes: Tee, long sleeve, crewneck or hoodie. - [Defined](https://madeupmerch.jackmccarthy020.workers.dev/defined/): Your word, defined. Dictionary style. Makes: Tee, long sleeve, crewneck or hoodie. - [Fair Warning](https://madeupmerch.jackmccarthy020.workers.dev/warning/): A safety sign for the one thing everyone should know about you. Makes: Tee, long sleeve, crewneck or hoodie. - [Overheard](https://madeupmerch.jackmccarthy020.workers.dev/overheard/): Something your people actually said, on a shirt, with the receipt. Makes: Tee, long sleeve, crewneck or hoodie. - [Fake Local](https://madeupmerch.jackmccarthy020.workers.dev/local/): Merch from a local business that doesn't exist. Makes: Tee, long sleeve, crewneck or hoodie. - [Alma Mater](https://madeupmerch.jackmccarthy020.workers.dev/varsity/): A college sweatshirt from a school that doesn't exist. Makes: Crewneck, hoodie or tee. - [The Tour of Your Life](https://madeupmerch.jackmccarthy020.workers.dev/tour/): Your year on the back of a metal band tour tee. Makes: T-shirt. - [Inside Joke Fanny Pack](https://madeupmerch.jackmccarthy020.workers.dev/fannypack/): Your group's inside joke, as a loud 90s pattern. Makes: Fanny pack. - [Saint Mode](https://madeupmerch.jackmccarthy020.workers.dev/saint/): Turn a friend into a saint, halo and all. Makes: Fanny pack. - [The Bachelor(ette) Collection](https://madeupmerch.jackmccarthy020.workers.dev/crew/): One face on a whole table of merch. Everyone orders their own. Makes: Tee, fanny pack, socks, flag, poster. - [Good Boy Wallpaper](https://madeupmerch.jackmccarthy020.workers.dev/goodboy/): Your pet, dressed up and repeated all over a blanket, socks or a tee. Makes: Throw, bandana, socks, all-over tee. - [Group Chat Tapestry](https://madeupmerch.jackmccarthy020.workers.dev/tapestry/): The worst moment in your group chat, woven like the Bayeux Tapestry. Makes: Wall tapestry. - [The Illuminated Manuscript](https://madeupmerch.jackmccarthy020.workers.dev/manuscript/): Your group chat written out by a monk, with snails in the margins. Makes: Poster or canvas. - [The Frieze](https://madeupmerch.jackmccarthy020.workers.dev/frieze/): Your group chat painted on a Greek vase. Makes: Mug, tumbler, tee or wrapping paper. - [Courtroom Sketch](https://madeupmerch.jackmccarthy020.workers.dev/court/): Put your roommate on trial. Get the courtroom sketch. Makes: Framed print. - [The Sky That Night](https://madeupmerch.jackmccarthy020.workers.dev/sky/): The real weather and moon from any night since 1940. Makes: Poster. - [Flag Foundry](https://madeupmerch.jackmccarthy020.workers.dev/flag/): Make up a country. Design its flag. Fly it. Makes: Flag. - [Find Dave](https://madeupmerch.jackmccarthy020.workers.dev/puzzle/): Hide your friend in a crowd and make the family find them. Makes: Jigsaw puzzle. ## How-to guides - [How to design an embroidered hat that actually stitches](https://madeupmerch.jackmccarthy020.workers.dev/how-to/design-a-custom-embroidered-hat/): The rules a hat design has to follow to stitch cleanly: smallest text, line weight, gaps, thread colours and the 4 x 1.75 in front. - [How to design a flag](https://madeupmerch.jackmccarthy020.workers.dev/how-to/design-a-flag/): The five rules of good flag design, the mistakes that cost the most points, and the printing gotchas: rod pockets, mirrored backs and sizes. - [How much does embroidery digitizing cost?](https://madeupmerch.jackmccarthy020.workers.dev/how-to/embroidery-digitizing-cost/): Printful's digitization fee is $6.50 per new design ($3.95 text-only). Typical shop quotes, why stitches drive the price, and how to pay it once. - [How to find the weather on a past date](https://madeupmerch.jackmccarthy020.workers.dev/how-to/find-the-weather-on-a-past-date/): Find the real weather and moon for a past night: where hourly records live, how far back they go (1940 at best), and the gaps and time gotchas. - [How small can embroidered text be?](https://madeupmerch.jackmccarthy020.workers.dev/how-to/how-small-can-embroidered-text-be/): Embroidered capitals need to be 0.25 in tall with strokes at least 0.05 in thick. What that means in font sizes, and which fonts fail first. - [How to knit your pet's face into a sweater](https://madeupmerch.jackmccarthy020.workers.dev/how-to/knit-your-pet-on-a-sweater/): A knitted sweater with your pet's face on it, and the rule that shapes everything: 4 yarns for the whole garment, collar and cuffs included. - [How to make a big head cutout from a photo](https://madeupmerch.jackmccarthy020.workers.dev/how-to/make-a-big-head-cutout/): The giant head people hold up at games, from any phone photo. Why plain photos blur when blown up, which style stays sharp, and how the ribbon works. - [How to make a custom embroidered patch](https://madeupmerch.jackmccarthy020.workers.dev/how-to/make-a-custom-embroidered-patch/): Patch shapes and sizes, the stitched border that eats your margin, the smallest text that stitches, and what to cut from the art first. - [How to make a custom fanny pack with your inside joke](https://madeupmerch.jackmccarthy020.workers.dev/how-to/make-a-custom-fanny-pack/): Turn a group inside joke into a loud 90s pattern printed on every panel of an all-over-print fanny pack. How the pattern works and what to type. - [How to make a jigsaw puzzle with a friend hidden in it](https://madeupmerch.jackmccarthy020.workers.dev/how-to/make-a-custom-jigsaw-puzzle/): Hide a friend's face in a crowd of hundreds of drawn people and print it as a jigsaw. Sizes, difficulty, and the rules that keep the hunt fair. - [How to make a custom shaped pillow](https://madeupmerch.jackmccarthy020.workers.dev/how-to/make-a-custom-shaped-pillow/): A pillow cut to any outline: a hot dog, a text bubble, your house. The rules that decide if a shape can be sewn, and the sizes it comes in. - [How to make a custom text t-shirt that looks designed](https://madeupmerch.jackmccarthy020.workers.dev/how-to/make-a-custom-text-t-shirt/): How to make a custom text t-shirt: write it short, pick a look instead of a font, check the ink against the shirt, and pick the blank and size first. - [How to make a custom tour shirt of your year](https://madeupmerch.jackmccarthy020.workers.dev/how-to/make-a-custom-tour-shirt/): Turn your year into a band tour tee: a fake band name, a tour name, dates and venues on the back, metal-style art on the front. How to write it. - [How to make a sweatshirt for a college that doesn't exist](https://madeupmerch.jackmccarthy020.workers.dev/how-to/make-a-fake-college-sweatshirt/): Make a collegiate crewneck for a school that doesn't exist: the name formula, the department line, a founding year, and the six classic layouts. - [How to make a tapestry from your group chat](https://madeupmerch.jackmccarthy020.workers.dev/how-to/make-a-group-chat-tapestry/): Paste your group chat, find its most chaotic moment, and get it back as a medieval-style tapestry with a Latin caption. What to paste and what prints. - [How to make a mountain range pillow of your view](https://madeupmerch.jackmccarthy020.workers.dev/how-to/make-a-mountain-range-pillow/): A pillow whose top edge is the real ridgeline you see from a spot on the map, worked out from elevation data. How it's done and how to pick the spot. - [How to make a pillow of your house](https://madeupmerch.jackmccarthy020.workers.dev/how-to/make-a-pillow-of-your-house/): Turn a photo of a house into a pillow cut along its roofline. What photo to take, what the drawing gets wrong, and how the gift note works. - [How to make stickers or magnets from a text message](https://madeupmerch.jackmccarthy020.workers.dev/how-to/make-stickers-from-a-text-message/): A text bubble cut as a die-cut sticker or magnet, tail, read receipt and reaction included. What you can set, and why shorter messages print bigger. ## Ideas - [Bachelorette and bachelor party merch ideas](https://madeupmerch.jackmccarthy020.workers.dev/ideas/bachelorette-party-merch-ideas/): Party merch with the guest of honor's face on it: tees, fanny packs, socks, a TEAM BRIDE flag, and one link so every guest orders and pays for their own. - [Best friend birthday gift ideas](https://madeupmerch.jackmccarthy020.workers.dev/ideas/best-friend-birthday-gift-ideas/): Birthday gifts for a best friend made from your history: their year as a band tour tee, their face as a saint, their head as a giant pillow. - [Closing gifts for new homeowners](https://madeupmerch.jackmccarthy020.workers.dev/ideas/closing-gifts-for-new-homeowners/): Closing gifts for buyers from an agent, a lender or family: a pillow of the house they just bought, cut along its roofline, sent with your note. - [Family game night ideas you make yourself](https://madeupmerch.jackmccarthy020.workers.dev/ideas/family-game-night-ideas/): Game night ideas built around your family: a jigsaw with a relative hidden in the crowd, a flag-design contest with a ruthless critic, a mock trial. - [Funny t-shirt ideas about someone you know](https://madeupmerch.jackmccarthy020.workers.dev/ideas/funny-t-shirt-ideas/): Funny t-shirt ideas that are about a real person: a nutrition label, a safety sign, a quote with the receipt, a college that doesn't exist. - [Gift ideas for a group chat](https://madeupmerch.jackmccarthy020.workers.dev/ideas/gift-ideas-for-a-group-chat/): Gifts made from the group chat itself: its worst night as a tapestry, a Greek vase or a monk's manuscript, one infamous text as a pillow. - [Gifts for cat people](https://madeupmerch.jackmccarthy020.workers.dev/ideas/gifts-for-cat-people/): Gifts with their own cat on them: the cat in a crown on a blanket, knitted into a sweater, canonized as a saint or hidden in a jigsaw crowd. - [Gifts for dads who say they don't want anything](https://madeupmerch.jackmccarthy020.workers.dev/ideas/gifts-for-dads/): Gifts for dads: an embroidered dad hat for a fake club about his one habit, his year as a band tour tee, a flag for the nation of his garage. - [Gifts for dog people](https://madeupmerch.jackmccarthy020.workers.dev/ideas/gifts-for-dog-people/): Gifts with their actual dog on them: the dog in a crown on a fleece blanket, knitted into a sweater, canonized as a saint, hidden in a jigsaw. - [Gifts for hikers and mountain people](https://madeupmerch.jackmccarthy020.workers.dev/ideas/gifts-for-hikers/): Gifts for hikers built from real places: a pillow cut along the actual ridgeline they look at, peaks labelled, or the sky the night they summited. - [Gifts for long-distance friends](https://madeupmerch.jackmccarthy020.workers.dev/ideas/gifts-for-long-distance-friends/): Gifts for a friend who lives far away: your face hidden in a jigsaw for them to find, your view as a pillow, the sky over the night you met. - [Gifts for the coworker who has everything](https://madeupmerch.jackmccarthy020.workers.dev/ideas/gifts-for-the-coworker-who-has-everything/): Work gifts nobody else could buy: merit badges for office wins, a hat for a fake club about their one work problem, the printer on trial. - [Gifts for your roommate](https://madeupmerch.jackmccarthy020.workers.dev/ideas/gifts-for-your-roommate/): Roommate gifts built on shared crimes: your roommate on trial in a framed courtroom sketch, their 2 AM order as a pillow, a flag for your apartment. - [Housewarming gift ideas](https://madeupmerch.jackmccarthy020.workers.dev/ideas/housewarming-gift-ideas/): Housewarming gifts to bring to the party: a flag for the new household, their first takeout as a giant pillow, the we got the keys text as a magnet. - [Retirement gift ideas that aren't a gold watch](https://madeupmerch.jackmccarthy020.workers.dev/ideas/retirement-gift-ideas/): Retirement gifts with a sense of humour: the last year of work as a farewell tour tee, merit badges for the career, a fake club hat for what's next. - [Ugly sweater party ideas](https://madeupmerch.jackmccarthy020.workers.dev/ideas/ugly-sweater-party-ideas/): Ugly sweater party ideas: a real knit sweater of your pet's face with a matching one for the pet, group chat wrapping paper, a party puzzle. - [White elephant gift ideas people actually steal](https://madeupmerch.jackmccarthy020.workers.dev/ideas/white-elephant-gift-ideas/): White elephant and Yankee swap gifts that get stolen: a giant hot dog pillow, a we need to talk pillow, a fake yacht club hat, adulting badges. ## Learn: making merch with AI - [Can you copyright AI art? What it means for merch](https://madeupmerch.jackmccarthy020.workers.dev/learn/can-you-copyright-ai-art/): In the US, purely AI-generated images can't be copyrighted, and slogans never could. What you can protect on a shirt, and what that means if you sell. - [How to check a t-shirt slogan for trademarks](https://madeupmerch.jackmccarthy020.workers.dev/learn/check-a-t-shirt-slogan-for-trademarks/): How to search the USPTO for a t-shirt phrase in five minutes: class 25, live versus dead marks, and why popular slogans are the risky ones. - [Free fonts you can use on t-shirts you sell](https://madeupmerch.jackmccarthy020.workers.dev/learn/free-fonts-for-t-shirts/): 18 free font families (SIL OFL or Apache licensed) that you can print on shirts you sell, why those licenses allow it, and the font traps to avoid. - [Free blank t-shirt, hoodie and sweatshirt mockups](https://madeupmerch.jackmccarthy020.workers.dev/learn/free-t-shirt-mockups/): Free blank shirt mockups: 75 colours across six blanks as transparent PNG and editable SVG, plus print area templates. No signup, no credit needed. - [How to make AI art print ready for a t-shirt](https://madeupmerch.jackmccarthy020.workers.dev/learn/make-ai-art-print-ready/): A checklist for turning an AI image into a print file that comes out right on a shirt: size, upscaling, transparent background, soft edges, colour, text. - [How to moderate custom text on print on demand](https://madeupmerch.jackmccarthy020.workers.dev/learn/moderate-custom-text-print-on-demand/): Lessons from moderating custom text on 27 merch sites: check what prints, not what was typed, and check fields together. A checklist for builders. - [How to price print on demand t-shirts](https://madeupmerch.jackmccarthy020.workers.dev/learn/print-on-demand-t-shirt-pricing/): Printful's base cost for six popular shirts by size, what Etsy and card fees take, and a profit calculator, so you can price a POD tee that pays. - [Printful's mockup API: rate limits and how to cache](https://madeupmerch.jackmccarthy020.workers.dev/learn/printful-mockup-api-rate-limits/): Printful's mockup generator allows 2 tasks a minute for a new account. How to build live previews that never hit it, and when a real render is worth it. - [Selling AI art on print on demand: the actual rules](https://madeupmerch.jackmccarthy020.workers.dev/learn/sell-ai-art-on-print-on-demand/): Etsy, Printful, Redbubble and Amazon Merch all allow AI-made designs. What gets them pulled is what always did: other people's characters, logos and names. - [What color text shows up on which shirt color](https://madeupmerch.jackmccarthy020.workers.dev/learn/t-shirt-ink-colors/): Which ink colours read on white, black, navy, heather and coloured shirts, measured by contrast. A table for 12 shirt colours, plus the full data free. - [T-shirt print file size: pixels, DPI and print areas](https://madeupmerch.jackmccarthy020.workers.dev/learn/t-shirt-print-file-size/): How many pixels a t-shirt print file needs: 3,600 × 4,800 px for a full 12 × 16 in front at 300 DPI. Print areas for six blanks and a size checker. ## Design links (for assistants) The text-shirt sites open a finished design from plain query parameters, so you can give someone a link to the exact shirt they asked for. They see it drawn on the shirt and can change anything before ordering. Words in a link go through the same checks as typed words; if they can't print (brands, famous people, slurs), the site opens a starting design instead and says why. Parameters a link leaves out start blank, so include every line you want printed. URL-encode values (spaces as +). Every site also takes the shirt: shirt (one of tee, heavy, ringer, long, crew, hoodie), color (a colour id such as black, white, heather-dust or sport-grey; an unknown colour falls back to one the shirt has) and size (XS, S, M, L, XL, 2XL, 3XL, 4XL, 5XL). The colour ids and sizes for each shirt are in https://madeupmerch.jackmccarthy020.workers.dev/data/print-areas.json. ### Shirt Says (https://madeupmerch.jackmccarthy020.workers.dev/says/) Example: https://madeupmerch.jackmccarthy020.workers.dev/says/?line=FULLY+BOOKED&line=EMOTIONALLY&line=UNTIL+SPRING&look=block&shirt=tee&color=black&size=L - line (repeat the parameter, one per item, in order): A line of text, top to bottom. Up to 4 lines, 60 characters each. - look: The layout: block, echo, retro, typewriter, varsity, pocket, blackletter, label. - font: Optional font id; each look offers three, anything else falls back to the look's default. - ink: Ink colour: white, cream, black, charcoal, red, tomato, orange, mustard, lemon, kelly, forest, sky, cobalt, navy, bubblegum, hotpink, lilac, brown. An ink that won't show on the shirt is swapped for one that does. - ink2: Optional second ink (alternate lines, outlines, the label maker's letters). ### Nutrition Facts (https://madeupmerch.jackmccarthy020.workers.dev/facts/) Example: https://madeupmerch.jackmccarthy020.workers.dev/facts/?title=Grandpa+Facts&servings=1+serving+per+porch&serving=1+grandpa&cal=Naps&calnum=6&row=Fishing+stories;40g;80%25&row=%2BTold+twice;20g;40%25&row=Patience;900g;450%25&layout=classic&ink=black&shirt=heavy&color=ivory&size=L - title: The label's title, e.g. "Grandpa Facts". Up to 20 characters; "Nutrition Facts" if left out. Any field left out of a link with words in it is blank, so give every line you want printed. - servings: Optional line under the title ("1 serving per household"). Up to 36 characters. - serving: What follows "Serving size" ("1 dad"). Up to 30 characters. - cal: The big line's word. Up to 12 characters; "Calories" if left out. - calnum: The big line's number ("9000"). Up to 7 characters. - row (repeat the parameter, one per row): A nutrient row, top to bottom: name;amount;%DV (e.g. "Dad jokes;300g;400%"). A leading "+" indents it as a sub-row of the row above. Required: 2 to 10 rows; name up to 24, amount 10, %DV 6 characters. - footnote: Optional footnote under the rows. Up to 100 characters. - ingredients: Optional "Ingredients:" line under the label. Up to 150 characters. - layout: The layout: classic, open, compact (classic: boxed, 10 in wide; open: no box, bigger type; compact: boxed, 6.6 in, high on the chest). - ink: Ink colour: white, cream, black, charcoal, red, tomato, orange, mustard, lemon, kelly, forest, sky, cobalt, navy, bubblegum, hotpink, lilac, brown. An ink that won't show on the shirt is swapped for one that does. ### Defined (https://madeupmerch.jackmccarthy020.workers.dev/defined/) Example: https://madeupmerch.jackmccarthy020.workers.dev/defined/?word=grandpa&pron=GRAN-pah&pos=noun&def=A+man+who+naps+through+the+game+he+insisted+on+watching.&def=Keeper+of+butterscotch.&example=Grandpa+is+just+resting+his+eyes.&also=recliner%2C+the+weather+channel&look=classic&ink=black&shirt=tee&color=heather-dust&size=L - word: The headword, printed big: a real word, a name or one you made up. Required; up to 20 characters. Any field left out of a link with words in it is blank, so give every line you want printed. - pron: How it sounds, in plain letters with the stressed part in capitals ("NAP-uh-tyte"), not IPA; the slashes are added for you. Up to 32 characters. Left out, it's guessed from the word. - pos: Part of speech, e.g. noun, verb, adjective, adverb, exclamation, plural noun, proper noun, phrase, or your own ("verb (informal)"). Up to 18 characters. - def (repeat the parameter, one per item, in order): A definition, numbered in order. Required: 1 to 3, up to 90 characters each. The pocket look prints only the first. - example: Optional example sentence, in italics. Up to 80 characters. Not printed by the pocket look. - also: Optional last line ("couch, blanket, five more minutes"). Up to 44 characters. Not printed by the pocket look. - alsokind: What the last line is labelled: see ("see also", the default), syn ("synonyms") or ant ("opposite"). - look: The layout: classic, typewriter, modern, stacked, pocket (pocket is small on the left chest). - ink: Ink colour: white, cream, black, charcoal, red, tomato, orange, mustard, lemon, kelly, forest, sky, cobalt, navy, bubblegum, hotpink, lilac, brown. An ink that won't show on the shirt is swapped for one that does. ### Fair Warning (https://madeupmerch.jackmccarthy020.workers.dev/warning/) Example: https://madeupmerch.jackmccarthy020.workers.dev/warning/?word=CAUTION&message=Will+talk+about+his+smoker.&small=Brisket+updates+may+continue+for+up+to+14+hours.&icon=grill&layout=landscape&shirt=tee&color=white&size=L - message: The warning itself ("Will talk about his smoker."). Required; up to 64 characters. Any word field left out of a link with words in it is blank (the signal word defaults to WARNING), so give every line you want printed. - word: The signal word in the header, printed in capitals. Up to 12 characters; WARNING if left out. DANGER comes in red, WARNING comes in orange, CAUTION comes in yellow, NOTICE comes in blue, HEADS UP comes in pink, ATTENTION comes in black, FYI comes in green, BEWARE comes in black unless tone says otherwise. - small: Optional small print under the warning. Up to 60 characters. Prints only on the landscape and portrait layouts. - tone: Header colour: red (Danger red), orange (Warning orange), yellow (Caution yellow), blue (Notice blue), green (Safety green), black (Black and yellow), pink (Hi-vis pink). - icon: The pictogram: none, alert, talk, coffee, sleep, flame, grill, fish, controller, guitar, wine, beer, paw, bone, cat, dumbbell, bottle, mic, megaphone, music, book, plant, clock, phone, pizza, cookie, bolt, wrench, camera, tv, mountain, tent, sun, heart, yarn, dice, car. None if left out of a link with words in it. - lettering: The lettering: signage, heavy, condensed. - caps (1 or 0): 1 to print the warning in ALL CAPS, 0 (the default) to print it as written. - layout: The sign: landscape, portrait, strip, pocket (landscape: 11 in wide across the chest; portrait: tall, big pictogram on top; strip: a long label; pocket: a 3.75 in sticker on the left chest). ### Overheard (https://madeupmerch.jackmccarthy020.workers.dev/overheard/) Example: https://madeupmerch.jackmccarthy020.workers.dev/overheard/?quote=I+have+a+system.+Nobody+touch+the+system.&who=Dad&when=the+garage%2C+2023&look=transcript&ink=black&shirt=tee&color=white&size=L - quote: What they said, without quote marks (each look adds its own; straight quotes and -- become curly quotes and dashes). Required; up to 140 characters. Any field left out of a link with words in it is blank, so give every line you want printed. - who: Who said it: a first name or a role ("Mom", "my boss"), never a famous person. Up to 24 characters. - when: Optional when or where ("Thanksgiving 2024"). Up to 36 characters. - look: How it's typed up: serif, transcript, note, subtitle, receipt, pocket (serif: big quote; transcript: a deposition; note: handwritten; subtitle: a movie caption; receipt: a till receipt; pocket: small, on the left chest). - ink: Ink colour: white, cream, black, charcoal, red, tomato, orange, mustard, lemon, kelly, forest, sky, cobalt, navy, bubblegum, hotpink, lilac, brown. Ignored by the subtitle look; an ink that won't show on the shirt is swapped for one that does. - caption: Subtitle look only: caption colour, white or yellow; white is the default. - qa (1 or 0): Transcript look only: 1 sets it as Q. and A. ("In your own words.") instead of a speaker label; 0 is the default. ### Fake Local (https://madeupmerch.jackmccarthy020.workers.dev/local/) Example: https://madeupmerch.jackmccarthy020.workers.dev/local/?name=Pete%27s+Pickles+%26+Panic&sells=Brine+%C2%B7+Dill+%C2%B7+Dread&est=1974&town=Toledo%2C+OH&phone=419-555-0131&slogan=Kind+Of+A+Big+Dill&look=badge&kind=diner&ink=navy&ink2=red&shirt=heavy&color=butter&size=L - name: The made-up business's name. Required; up to 28 characters. No real chains. Any field left out of a link with words in it is blank, so give every line you want printed. - sells: What they sell ("Live Bait · Cold Beer"). Up to 40 characters. - est (a whole number): The year it was established, 1800 to 2099. - town: Town, state ("Tulsa, OK"). Up to 26 characters. - phone: Optional phone number. Only the fictional 555-0100 to 555-0199 block prints (e.g. 918-555-0142; any area code); digits, spaces and ( ) . + - only, up to 16 characters. - slogan: Optional slogan. Up to 40 characters. The pocket look doesn't print it. - look: The look: badge, script, western, roadside, diner, pocket (badge: a circle badge; script: painted script; western: wanted-poster letters and a ribbon; roadside: a sign on two posts; diner: two-tone script; pocket: small on the left chest). - kind: The kind of place, which picks the ornaments: diner, bait, tire, bowling, motel, carwash, bbq, hardware, gym, bar. - ink: Main ink (the sign itself on the roadside look): white, cream, black, charcoal, red, tomato, orange, mustard, lemon, kelly, forest, sky, cobalt, navy, bubblegum, hotpink, lilac, brown. - ink2: Second ink (the sign's letters on the roadside look, the ribbon on the western look). Inks that won't show on the shirt or the sign are swapped for a pair that does. ### Alma Mater (https://madeupmerch.jackmccarthy020.workers.dev/varsity/) Example: https://madeupmerch.jackmccarthy020.workers.dev/varsity/?school=University+of+Napping&dept=Department+of+Couches&est=1999&motto=Dormio+Ergo+Sum&number=99&look=arch&ink=navy&accent=red&shirt=crew&color=sand&size=L - school: The made-up school's name ("University of Overthinking"). Required; up to 36 characters. No real schools, teams or their mottos. Any field left out of a link with words in it is blank, so give every line you want printed. - dept: Department or major. Up to 36 characters. Printed by the arch, stacked, athletic, script, pocket looks. - est: The founding year or anything short ("1994", "Last Tuesday"); printed as EST. 1994. Up to 12 characters. - motto: Motto, faux Latin welcome. Up to 36 characters. Printed by the arch, stacked, seal looks. - number: Class year or jersey number ("26", "00"). Up to 4 characters. Printed by the athletic look. - initials: Seal look only: the monogram, up to 3 letters. Left out, it's the school's initials. - look: The look: arch (The name arched over one big word); stacked (Small caps, one huge slab word, small caps); seal (A ring of type round your initials); athletic (Property of. Big number. Gym class energy); script (School-spirit script with a swoosh); pocket (Small on the left chest. Quietly smug). - ink: Lettering ink: white, cream, black, charcoal, red, tomato, orange, mustard, lemon, kelly, forest, sky, cobalt, navy, bubblegum, hotpink, lilac, brown. An ink that won't read on the shirt is swapped for black or white. - accent: Trim ink (shadows, outlines, stars), same ids. Swapped for a collegiate colour that shows if it won't read on the shirt. ## Data Free to reuse under CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) with a link back. - [T-shirt and sweatshirt print areas and pixel sizes](https://madeupmerch.jackmccarthy020.workers.dev/data/print-areas.json): Front print area and the pixel size of a print file at 150 and 300 DPI for six popular Printful blanks, with colours and sizes in US stock. - [Free fonts licensed for printing on shirts you sell](https://madeupmerch.jackmccarthy020.workers.dev/data/fonts.json): 18 open-licensed font families, 22 styles (SIL OFL 1.1 or Apache 2.0), that can be printed on products you sell, with where to download each. - [Ink colour contrast on t-shirt colours](https://madeupmerch.jackmccarthy020.workers.dev/data/ink-contrast.json): Contrast ratio of 18 ink colours against every shirt colour of six Printful blanks, and whether the ink reads, reads quietly or disappears. - [Printful base costs for six popular blanks, by size](https://madeupmerch.jackmccarthy020.workers.dev/data/printful-costs.json): What Printful charges for six popular shirts, hoodies and sweatshirts before shipping, by size, from its public US catalog. ## Optional - [Every guide in full](https://madeupmerch.jackmccarthy020.workers.dev/llms-full.txt): all guide text as markdown - [Site registry](https://madeupmerch.jackmccarthy020.workers.dev/sites.json): every site as JSON, with URLs and product pictures - [Sitemap](https://madeupmerch.jackmccarthy020.workers.dev/sitemap.xml)