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briligg aka kim holder is a 40.7 year old girl, has been a member since March 30, 2007, has scored 2458 submissions, giving an average score of 2.45.

Sep 27 '07 by briligg

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Missing template colours

I have a thing about trying to play by the rules, so when I design something for Threadless, I put my design on one of the standard colours in the .psd template.

But, wait, a whole bunch of tee-shirt colours have been used for the printed designs but aren't included in the template -
brown, olive, coral, silver, creme, baby blue - and there's probably others.

What is one to conclude from this? That you can just pick whatever shirt colour you like and if your design wins Threadless will go find something close? Does doing this give some people an edge? What about truth in advertising?

'Cause I've gotta say, the palette of colours in the template has some real holes. It would be much improved by a way better range of earth-tones, blues, and pastels. Where is the rust, the lavender, the mauve, the robin's egg blue?

And really - kiwi? Who looks good in that?

bsweber on Sep 27 '07 at 6:22pm

i think alot of those special colors are for selects?

i could be wrong.

briligg on Sep 27 '07 at 7:21pm

no, no, I've checked. From a quick review of my files I found designs that won in the regular competition on a brown, two blues, and a pink that aren't in the template.
And those are just the ones I found quickly. (Um, I download winning designs for reference purposes - research, ya know.)

spires on Sep 27 '07 at 7:33pm

look at the AA website for a list of colors, Pantone values and CMYK info

But FOTL uses different colors, so be careful

look under 'wholesale info'

briligg on Sep 28 '07 at 5:54pm

thanks - I went to the American Apparel website and found some info. that helps me out, but actually to be careful i have taken to adding colours to my template myself whenever i find an unrepresented colour documented in a winning design.

But what i'm really trying to say is -
isn't it time threadless updated it's template?

Bramish on Sep 28 '07 at 5:55pm

I just go to www.threadless.com/all and pick my tee colour from one of those.

briligg on Sep 28 '07 at 6:16pm

yeah, and i download the winners obsessively, so it amounts to the same thing,
but still, i persist, why have a template if people have to go poking around elsewhere to find all the truly available colours? after all, that isn't going to occur to everyone.

i guess i need to kvetch to threadless, really. you guys are being helpful. what i'm checking, really, is whether i am alone in this opinion.

briligg on Sep 29 '07 at 10:50am

um, yeah, i guess i am.

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