Screen printing SVG examples

Screen printing needs a small, known set of colors and shapes that hold up when burned to a screen. These designs were traced with the screen print mode in the editor.

Detail of the original PNG, desert run 5k tee design, zoomed 8 times: the pixels show as blocks
Original, zoomed 8x
The same detail of the SVG, desert run 5k tee design, zoomed 8 times: edges stay sharp
SVG, zoomed 8x
Three-color race t-shirt design with an orange sunburst, navy hills and cacti inside a circle under the words Desert Run and a 5K tag

Screen print

Desert run 5K tee design

7 paths · 6 colors · 57 KB

Detail of the original PNG, halftone badge, zoomed 8 times: the pixels show as blocks
Original, zoomed 8x
The same detail of the SVG, halftone badge, zoomed 8 times: edges stay sharp
SVG, zoomed 8x
Red and cream circular badge reading Sound System with a halftone dot pattern growing larger toward the bottom

Screen print

Halftone badge

74 paths · 15 colors · 213 KB

Prep artwork for screens

Trace the design, reduce it to your ink count and export one SVG you can separate.

Vectorize your ownVector files for screen printing