“I shot the Serif, but I did not shoot the deputy.” I haven’t been able to get this song out of my head for the last few weeks, and for a good reason. We’ve taken the time to reflect a little on our fonts. I’ve since occupied myself with font characteristics like serifs, weight, slope, width, optical size, metrics and proportions, in addition to our internal statistics for our current font offerings. Which fonts are successful, which fonts are rarely used or seldom make it onto your shirts? Which fonts are used for which season (big surprise here, HoleHearted at the beginning of February, Halloween in October), as well as which fonts are ineffective regardless of season? The results: 52% of your ideas make it on shirts with only 6 of the 25 fonts we offer. Other fonts only make it onto your products 0.01% of the time.

Long story shirt short – spring summer cleaning for our font assortment:
Starting with about 200 fonts we filtered, discussed, deleted, replaced, plotted, weeded, reordered, re-discussed and finally put together a new set of fonts. Soon you will be able to get a fitting font for your favorite quote from the best Spaghetti Westerns of the last 50 years, just like you will have the right pixel font for your personal tribute to retro gaming. That’s just the tip of the iceberg, but be patient, wait and see – it won’t be much longer before you get your hands on these gems.
continue reading ‘I Shot the Serif - New Fonts at Spreadshirt’

I know this has been one feature we have received a ton of requests for - edit and existing product. The wait is over, let the editing begin. Temple announced the arrival of product editing in the forums today, here are the details:

Today we released a new feature in the Shop Admin for your products. You can now edit an existing product or clone a product! Products can be altered for your shop or the Marketplace independently or both at the same time.

Editing a product to for replacement:

If you edit your product in the ?Product Overview? screen, it will be altered in both your shop and within the Marketplace (assuming that your product has been opened in both areas).

Here?s how it works:: Your original product is deleted and replaced by the new product (e.g. with a new color or alternate design). The editable attributes given to the old product (i.e. the commission rate, product name, etc) are automatically transferred to the new product. The product will get moved to the top of the ?Product Overview? list the same as every new product.

Editing a product to create a new version:

Please remember this will change your product in all areas. If you would prefer to change the product in just one of the selling areas (i.e. in your shop OR the marketplace) then simply use the small blue ?My Products? drop-down menu to the top left of the product overview screen and select either your shop or the marketplace.

If you want create new version of a pre-existing product WITHOUT deleting the original, then click on the ‘Clone Product’ option. A copy of the product will be provided which you can then change according to your desires. Great for creating the same design layout on different products, colors, etc!

Let me know if you have any questions!

Yes, we can now print on the side of hoods.

Which is totally awesome. I know you have seen some amazingly decorated hoodies around the internet - well you can now create your very own right here at Spreadshirt!

Here are the important details:
Hood printing will allow for either left or right side of the hood. (Sorry - There is no option for a back print or a print that wraps around the whole hood.)

Dark and light digitals will be excluded from the hoods.

The following products will have the hood print option: Men’s Hooded Sweatshirt, Men’s Zipper Hoodie, Women’s Hooded Sweatshirt, Women’s Zipper Hoodie, Junior’s Distressed Hoodie.

Please share your hood designs! I can’t wait to see what people put on their hoods!

Yes, you can now follow Spreadshirt on Twitter. Many of us here at Spreadshirt have been playing around with Twitter so we thought it was time for a Spreadshirt Twitter. We won’t twitter you about every t-shirt but we will be using Twitter to announce some special things and possibly a promotion or two so follow along!

Kristina, our amazing product assortment manager has outdone herself. Check out these NEW products that we will be releasing in November. Some are already live and waiting for your designs, the rest will be added during November.

• Reversible Baby Blanket
• Baby Short Sleeve Onesie
• Toodler Hooded Sweatshirt
• Women’s Heather Tee
• Women’s Hooded Sweatshirt
• Men’s Fitted Long Sleeve Tee
• Pinstripe Baseball Cap
• Doggie Tees

Visit the Product Assortment Page for details, colors and more.

Announcing our newest arrival to product assortment - say hello to the maternity t-shirt.

Available in white, pink and black in sizes S, M, L, XL and XXL.   We are eager to see what designs you are putting on the maternity shirt - send them out way or post them to the forum or the Flickr group.

As part of our Support Your Cause promotion we have added a rhinestone version of the pink ribbon to the assortment.  We want to see how you use this design!  Send pictures of your items lpa-at-spreadshirt.com

Spreadshirt is now available in the language of love! French-Canadian users can enjoy all of Spreadshirt’s services, including their very own marketplace with unique designs in the French language. To find Spreadshirt in French, simply select “Français” in the drop-down menu located near the bottom right of every page.

We’ve moved and today was the official ribbon cutting ceremony on our new production facility. Just down the road from our old digs, the new location is bright and sunny with lots of room for t-shirts and for fun things too (we had to put away the ping pong table about our old home to make room for t-shirts).

Congressman Tim Murphy stopped by to help cut the ribbon. We also had some shop partners and local media on hand (look for us on the evening news) to help us celebrate. We even had some really big scissors to help cut the ribbon.

More pictures available here.

OLP, not OPP.  Although I am a fan of Naughty by Nature, the OLP has nothing to do with OPP.

OLP = Open Logo Project
http://olp.spreadshirt.net

We are looking for a new logo and we want your help.

Spreadshirt is looking for a new logo and is inviting you all to design our logo which will be seen by millions of people every year (well we’re not counting, but its a lot)!

One design gets picked, lots of prizes get awarded, Spreadshirt gets an awesome new logo and we all have fun.

Prizes and fun for everyone:

• We have cool prizes for the winners
• We have prizes for non-designers - stop by the OLP website and leave comments, you could win
• We have weekly prizes too

All the details and entries thus far are available here: http://olp.spreadshirt.net