Starting from a blank garment is harder than it sounds. The design catalog holds proven layouts — color blocking, stripes, chevrons, panel splits — that you can adapt instead of designing from nothing. Every layout is a starting point, not a finished product.
Open any catalog design in the 3D customizer and it loads onto the garment with its structure intact. From there you change what makes it yours: base and accent colors, your logo on the chest or sleeve, player names, and numbers front and back. The preview updates live and rotates, so you can check the back before committing.
Working from an existing layout is faster, but the real advantage is that the compositional problems are already solved. The number sits in a clean field rather than over a busy pattern. The logo placement is sized for the garment. Panel boundaries fall where seams allow.
The most common failure in an adapted design is recoloring a layout into low contrast. A scheme that reads clearly in the catalog can turn to mud once you substitute your own colors — red on navy, forest on maroon and royal on purple all look distinct on a laptop and illegible from the touchline.
Two checks catch it. Shrink the design to thumbnail size and look at it from across the room: if the number is not instantly readable, the contrast is wrong. Then desaturate it — if the design collapses into a single tone in grayscale, the contrast is coming from hue alone, which disappears in poor light, on video, and for the roughly 8% of men with color vision deficiency. The uniform design guide covers this in detail, along with logo reproduction and number legibility.
A layout that runs seam to seam or uses gradients requires sublimation, which in turn requires light-colored polyester. Simple one- or two-color layouts work with any method and on any fabric. If your fabric is fixed, choose a layout that fits it — see sublimation vs screen printing vs embroidery before finalizing artwork.
Pick a layout and open it in 3D, or browse the catalogue to choose a garment first. When the design is settled, request a quote with your quantities and size split.