Your Embroidered Logo: Match Colors?

Having different pieces of clothing embroidered? Trying to select different styles in the same color?

Let’s say you want T-shirts, sweatshirts and hats in the same shade of royal blue. Just because all the items are available in “royal blue” doesn’t mean it will be a same shade of royal blue.  Royal, like other colors, can vary greatly. There are royals with more white, more black, more red and so on. Even when the items are made by the same manufacturer there can be different “royals”.

How can you get matching items? Ask you embroiderer.  They may be able to suggest styles with the same PMS (Pantone Matching System) color which means the shade is the same. Even then, differences can occur due to washing frequency, wearing conditions and fabric variations. You might find that initially everything matches but after a couple of months the T’s look lighter because they’ve been washed a lot and the hats have faded from being worn in the sun while the sweatshirts look about the same because they haven’t been worn or washed much.

Your Embroidered Logo: Work For Hats?

Wondering if your vertically orientated logo will work on hats?

Hat designs work best if they are 4" wide x 2” high. If your design doesn’t fit that space you have some options:

1. Rearrange it so it fits within the area. Many times one element of the design, possibly the image, can be placed next to the text to create a horizontally-orientated design.

2. Resize or eliminate design elements. Enlarge your business name and downsize or eliminate secondary elements. If you eliminate an element such as a web address, consider having it embroidered on the back of the hat.

3. Have one element such as your business name or image embroidered on the left front panel.

4. Use just your business name and you’ll have plenty of space to make it big.