AI T-Shirt Design Maker
Print-ready apparel graphics for merch, POD and band tees.
Apparel graphics have rules that other design ignores: a limited palette, no fine hairlines, and a composition that survives being printed on fabric the colour of the shirt. This AI t-shirt design generator works to those constraints, so a design goes to a printer instead of back to the drawing board — generated large enough for direct-to-garment printing, and exported without a watermark on any plan.
- Free to start
- No credit card
- Export in seconds
Generated from a one-line prompt — no template picked.
T-Shirt Design Maker examples
Every design below came out of a single sentence. The prompt that made it is written underneath.
Streetwear graphic
Band tour tee
Vintage merch
Why use this instead of a template
Screen-print friendly
Ask for a limited palette and get flat spot colours instead of a gradient that needs a four-colour process to reproduce.
Texture that reads as print
Halftones, distress and ink misregistration that look like screen print rather than a filter.
Placement-aware
Front chest, full front, back print and pocket crops each composed for their area.
Whole drops
Generate a coherent set of four designs for a capsule rather than one graphic at a time.
How the t-shirt design maker works
Four steps, and only the first one costs credits.
- 1
Describe the graphic
The subject, the era or subculture, and any wording in quotes.
- 2
Set the palette
Say how many colours you can print — this shapes the whole design.
- 3
Generate the artwork
You get flat print-ready artwork rather than a shirt photograph.
- 4
Export for the printer
Download at high resolution, then clear the background if the garment is a different colour.
Sizes & specs
What you get, and the dimensions it arrives at.
- Artwork canvas
- 1:1, 4500 × 5400 px for DTG
- Print area
- 12 × 14 in front chest typical
- Palette
- 1–4 spot colours for screen print
- Export formats
- PNG or JPG at 1×, 2× or 3×
- Watermark
- None — on the free plan too
- Credits per design
- 2
Who it's for
The jobs people bring to this tool most often.
Print on demand
Designs sized for DTG platforms and marketplaces.
Band merch
Tour tees with date backs and heavy distress.
Streetwear drops
Capsule sets that share a visual language.
Clubs & teams
Running clubs, gyms and school teams.
Events
Conference and festival staff shirts.
Company swag
Internal merch that people actually wear.
What to put in a t-shirt design prompt
Fabric absorbs ink and moves, so problems invisible on a monitor become obvious on a garment. Five instructions do most of the work in an apparel prompt:
- How many colours you can print
- The single most useful thing you can say. A two-colour brief produces a fundamentally different, and usually better, design than an unconstrained one.
- The garment colour
- "For a black tee" changes the whole approach — the artwork is built to sit on that fabric instead of assuming white.
- The placement
- Front chest, full front, pocket or back. Each has a different aspect ratio and a different amount of detail it can carry.
- Bold shapes, no hairlines
- Thin strokes fill in and fine gradients band. Ask for solid shapes and halftones rather than continuous tone.
- A style and a subject
- Vintage, cartoon, blackwork, collegiate, streetwear — naming the tradition decides the type and texture together.
Designs that print well use generous counters in the type and colour separations you could name out loud. If a first result looks busy, ask for the same idea with one fewer colour.
T-shirt print sizes and placements
Print-on-demand platforms all quote artwork at 300 dpi over the print area. These are the placements worth generating for:
- Full front (DTG) — 4500 × 5400 px
- 300 dpi over 15 × 18 in, the largest print most platforms offer. Generate here and scale down for everything else.
- Front chest — 12 × 14 in
- The standard placement, and the one most designs are actually printed at. Roughly 3600 × 4200 px.
- Left chest / pocket — 4 × 4 in
- Around 1200 × 1200 px. Detail disappears at this size, so this placement wants a mark, not a scene.
- Full back — 15 × 18 in
- Same canvas as the full front. Common for band and event merch where the back carries the tour dates.
- Sleeve — 3 × 4 in
- Narrow and easy to get wrong. Keep it to a wordmark or a single small icon.
Generate at the largest size you might need and scale down rather than the reverse. One thing to check before uploading: if the shirt is a colour other than the artwork background, remove the background first — a white box behind the design is the giveaway of a rushed file, and it prints exactly as it appears.
Building a drop instead of a design
Merch sells better as a small collection with a shared idea than as unrelated one-offs. Three or four designs that share a palette, a texture and a type family give a store a point of view.
Generate the strongest design first, then ask for siblings — "same ink palette and distress, different subject" — so the set holds together without repeating itself.
T-Shirt Design Maker FAQ
Describe the subject and the style, then add the three constraints that matter: how many colours you can print, the garment colour, and the placement. Generate at the full-front size, refine the palette in chat, and export at 1× or higher for your print service.
300 dpi over the print area. For the largest common DTG print, that is around 4500 × 5400 pixels; generate large and scale down as needed.
No. Nothing is stamped on your export, including on the free plan — you do not have to buy anything to get a clean file.
Yes. Export at the resolution your platform asks for and upload the PNG like any other artwork. Check the background first: if the garment is not the same colour as the artwork background, remove it before uploading.
No. It runs in the browser on desktop and phone, so you can generate a design, refine it and download the file without installing anything.
Not directly — artwork is generated with a background rather than an alpha channel. Two reliable ways around it: name the garment colour in the prompt ("flat artwork on a solid black background, for a black tee") so the background matches the fabric, or run the export through a background remover before uploading to a print-on-demand service. Sending a file with a white box behind the artwork onto a coloured shirt is the single most common merch mistake, so check for it every time.
Say how many colours you can print and the design is built with flat spot colours and halftones rather than continuous gradients.
Yes, designs you generate are yours to sell. Avoid prompting for third-party logos, characters or trademarks you do not own.
The default output is flat print-ready artwork. Ask for a garment mockup as a separate generation if you need one for a product listing.
Related design tools
Same generator, different output. One account covers all of them.
Make your first t-shirt design now
Type one sentence. The free plan includes credits and needs no card.