Re: conlang t-shirt

Quoth Irina Rempt-Drijfhout:
> Something gives me the feeling that people expect me to have the
> things made, and I hereby volunteer if you all agree and I can get a
> good price; I'll check it out tomorrow, but I expect something in the
> order of magnitude of 25 guilders (8 UKP, 11 euro, 12,50 USD). I'll
> get back to administrative details as soon as I know more.
That seems like a fairly good price, for a small-run T-shirt.  We did
shirts for a class I TAed for just under $10, but they were very thin
fabric and not all that sturdy.

> If I'm to be the perpetrator, I'll do it my own way: black with white
> lettering and as many languages as possible that still give legible
> letters (about the size of my fingernails). I don't think it's a good
> thing to have only the best-known conlangs, and not only because that
> would exclude mine; it's the enormous variety that makes us special.
Black is good, but talk to the print shop; often a medium-dark grey
holds its colour better, and when it does wash out it does so into a
lighter grey, not into green or purple as often happens with "true"
black.

Laux mi, you should have as many different languages as you can find,
preferably all in their native script. :)

> I'm collecting all text phrases; if you want it in your own script
> please send me a GIF, black on white, preferably either with about
> 1 cm high letters when printed or larger so I can reduce it, and
> indicate which is the top so I don't make foolish mistakes.
It's hard to say what size they'll be when printed out, but much easier
to specify a height in points; in order to get a good reproduction,
though, I would assume 300 dpi at _least_, so if you want 1cm high/wide
(the narrow dimension) you should probably go for a GIF that's at least
100 pixels in its short dimension.  More can never hurt, either, since
it can always be shrunk down.  Postscript would be even better if you
could do it, since it resizes indefinitely.

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