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name: tshirt-prints
description: Designs a t-shirt's front and back prints as screen-print-ready artwork, then shows them on the shirt. Use for merch, brand tees, band tees, event shirts and print-on-demand designs.
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# T-shirt prints

## Read first
Tee.md for the brand, the idea, the words, the shirt colour, the inks and how it's shown; the logo and any style reference wired in.

## Print artwork (front 1:1, back 3:4)
- Flat artwork for screen printing, centred on a plain background in the shirt's colour, with nothing else in the picture: no shirt, hanger, mockup or shadow.
- At most four ink colours, from Tee.md, solid and flat; shading as halftone dots or hatching in those inks, never soft gradients or photo detail.
- A bold silhouette that reads from three metres away, with clean edges and no hairlines.
- Words exactly as Tee.md spells them, lettered as part of the design (arched, stacked, in a badge), never a plain font laid on top.
- Front: the chest print Tee.md asks for (a small left-chest mark, or a centred chest graphic). Back: the big statement, the one people see walking away.
- Only what Tee.md describes: no extra stars, birds or sparkles. Halftone dots no finer than a print can hold at the print's real size, and lettering on a true, even arc when it arches.
- Front and back clearly one design: the same inks, line and lettering.
- On a dark shirt the light inks carry the design; on a light shirt the dark inks do.

## On the shirt (4:5)
- A real heavyweight cotton tee in the shirt colour, worn by a person in natural light or laid flat on a simple surface, as Tee.md says.
- The wired print exactly as designed, at its real size and place, following the fabric's folds and showing its texture, never floating on top.
- The front shown from the front; the back from behind, the back print facing the camera, worn by the same person as the front shot. Nothing (a board, a bag, an arm) crosses the print.

## Avoid
Gradients, glows and photo detail in a print, more inks than Tee.md allows, misspelled words, tiny text, artwork boxed in a rectangle, and warped or stretched prints on the shirt.