Can I use Halftones and Gradients in my designs?

Halftones and gradients in t-shirt printing are made by the printers spraying down layers of ink onto the shirt. On dark shirts, the printers put down a base white layer first, which sits underneath the colored layers, so the printers are effectively trying to lay down two layers over the exact same spot.

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When using gradients and halftones in your design, it's worth keeping the following in mind:

Black fading to nothing

Ok

White fading to nothing

Tricky

Color fading to nothing

Tricky

Color fading to another color

Ok

It’s a little complicated to remember those details so we usually recommend halftones over gradients. Feel free to read more on halftones here.