For many businesses in Orange County, having a standard look for all employees is a key factor. However, many companies also want employees to be comfortable and to dress in a way that makes sense given their role in the business.
One option that is very popular with both the business as well as the employees is to have a uniform consisting of custom shirts and slacks or shorts in a specific color. This is more of a casual type of uniform that provides a consistent look but also isn’t a true uniform.
With the mild weather all year around, Orange County businesses can offer several different types of custom shirts. Popular options include polo shirts, long and short sleeved dress shirts and long sleeved jersey knits for winter wear.
When designing custom shirts for employees of the company, consider a few different tips and tricks to make the most of branding on the shirts. At the same time, you may want to design t-shirts using the same graphics that can be used for giveaways and customer recognition events. These should be in different styles or colors than employee shirts to avoid confusion.
Colors
A great option is to choose the company or corporate colors for your employee shirts. If you don’t have specific company colors, you can select a color that will be either neutral, such as a white, gray, tan, black or off-white color. It is also possible to choose colors that are easy to see such as a bright red, green, yellow or orange to make employees easily identifiable.
Choose the embroidery or screen printing colors on the custom shirts to provide contrast with the color of the shirt. For the lighter colors black or a dark color will stand out, while on the dark colors a white or bright color will be very noticeable.
What to Include
The design on the shirts will be entirely up to you and your design team. Most companies will include their company name on the breast pocket area and perhaps the website on one of the sleeves for a short sleeved shirt.
You may also want to have the employee names embroidered on the sleeve or on the breast pocket. This has the advantage of eliminating the extra cost and issues of name badges.
When an Orange County business has a corporate logo or graphic, this is a great addition to the custom look of the shirt. Remember, you can choose to do the screen printing or the embroidery in a single color or in multi-color depending on the budget and the look desired.
