Do you sometimes dream about wild rivers, high mountains, or a cozy campfire? We love to be out in nature as well, and especially that feeling of being free like a bird! Unfortunately, adventure trips are not part of daily life, but you can easily preserve the outdoors and wear them close to your heart: just put on your custom outdoor T-shirt.

Thanks to endless print and design possibilities, the T-shirt – originally designed as an undergarment and never meant to be seen by others – has become a form of personal expression. Whether you like road trips, go fishing on weekends, or hiking through the forest, you can show your favorite things to do and places by making outdoor adventure design T-shirts.

Need some inspiration? Kittl takes you by the hand! Here are some outdoor logo design templates you can customize easily:

Find vintage outdoor icons and color combinations

Besides hand-drawn motifs like iconic landscapes, wild animals, or outdoor supplies, you can add more nature elements like a sunburst to your custom design. For your color choice, it is always a good idea to go for earthy shades and green hues. Have you tried our color palettes yet? “Deep Wood”, “Earth Brown” or “Natural Organic” are perfect for your project. Does your design feature a lake or the sea? Go for “Ocean Sun” then.

Once you are finished, your vintage outdoor T-shirt will be your best travel companion – in everyday life and on your next adventure.

Got caught by digital wanderlust and want to start designing your landscape T-shirt? Well, in case you need even more inspiration, let’s take a look at some very nice outdoor logo projects:

This design was made for an outdoor lifestyle brand and ended up on a – surprise, surprise – T-shirt. The text was built around the illustration of enormous cacti which give you a hint about what is so special about Saguaro National Park. You’ll find important information in this design: the year the park was established, and where it is located. A great idea is to place the coordinates and the outline of the area below, very outdoorish.

The composition of this vintage T-shirt design is very popular as you can see by looking at more examples:

Another popular outdoor T-shirt design is inspired by the uniform of park rangers and scouts: the badge! Badge shapes — which can be oval or just round as well — instantly give you a feeling of wilderness and freedom. Always working!

Pro tip: Take your laptop and get out of the office! Go sit under a shady tree, on a beautiful lake, or between sweet scented flowers. Open Kittl and work on your design while being outside as we all know that nature is the best inspiration ever.

Escape to the unknown and create your outdoor T-shirt now!

Create vintage outdoor T-Shirt designs

Sometimes we need a break to give our feelings the attention they deserve. Get some quality time, buy ourselves something nice or just watch the grass grow. But you know what, creative work also helps wonderfully when you want to let your mind wander.

There is something meditative about working with form and color. The more time we spend designing, the more we feel the harmony of colors and compositions. Although this feeling is subjective, we often agree on what mood a picture conveys. Why is that? What is our feeling based on, and how can we deal with this as designers?

These elegant modern logos keep it really simple. A script font that carries a lighthearted feather stroke can be enough to draw attention to the spirit of a brand and create interest. A Light Sans Serif font fits the minimalist logo design perfectly and gives the viewer some extra information.

When combined, we get a modern minimalist logo design with heart. The clearly structured composition appears harmonious and calm. The fewer elements we use and the more carefully we align them, the tidier our design will be. As they say: “less is more”.

If we take the design a step further, these logos are given a little extra character to their overall looks with elements that evoke the same feeling as the handwritten font, and they also create some depth and dynamics in the composition. We see this fresh and youthful design style, especially popular for Beauty brands and skin care products.

Of course, it works the other way around. By changing the relation between fonts, these logos get a more static appearance. This is emphasized by a lightweight frame that unifies and calms down the whole composition, making it rest in itself. 

This way the applicability is increased and even more turbulent backgrounds can be combined without disturbing the calm and basic appearance.

To add more sense of relaxation and mindfulness, we go with a reserved colorway. 
As you have seen, most of our natural logos use earthy pastel shades with gold accents. This color choice is perfect to underline the beauty, value, and care that these logos are meant to represent.

One more thing that should be mentioned is the so-called “white space.” The “white space” is the area of a graphic that exists between and next to the elements. The less white space there is, the heavier and more monumental a design appears, and since elegance is light and graceful, we need a lot of space so that our composition seems to float. This makes it all the more important that our hair-thin lettering has a high brightness contrast to the background. Otherwise, it won’t be legible.

In conclusion, these kinds of logos look so subtle that they have to be created with carefulness in mind. Even the slightest change in the typeface, or in the color values can make all the difference.

It really is a balancing act and our templates can help you to walk that rope easily. Stay beautiful and create magic!

Elegant Organic Logo Design - Tips and Ideas

Is it just simple-looking arrangements of words? Why is there so little detail here? Why is everything so reduced? But more importantly, why should any designer study Swiss Design?

As the name suggests, this design style, also known as the International Typographic Style, has its origins in Switzerland and emerged around 1955 from the Bauhaus movement, as well as from Russian constructivism.

Designer Josef Müller-Brockmann is the main figure in this style evolution. He’s recognized for his use of clean shapes, colors, and typography, which is what the Swiss Style is all about. Probably the best-known product of this design niche is a work by designer Max Miedinger – the famous Helvetica typeface, the most used Typeface of all time.

So if you take a closer look, the true star of Swiss Style Graphic Design shines behind a curtain of consistent aesthetically arranged letters. There seems to be a system that makes these simple compositions so intriguing to the eye, making them typography art. In this article, we'll give you some insight into that hidden system: the Swiss Design Grid.

the most legible and harmonious means for structuring information

Mathematical grids are the foundation of International Typographic Design. In The 1950s, these grids were considered to be "the most legible and harmonious means for structuring information” and that holds up to this day. For example, websites are broken into flexible grids to create a hierarchy of information. Even every smartphone offers to take a picture with a grid to measure the precision of the picture’s position.

In swiss design, everything is structured. Both the design and the designer are subordinate to the content of the topic for which the design is created. The basic idea is to optimize the communication of the content and to remove distracting information, like emotions or self-portrayal, from the design. 

This optimization is why you can still see classical swiss design being around for almost a century when it comes to theater plays or art exhibitions. Especially for artistic content, the design must not become a competitor. 

Basically, Swiss design represents the attitude that the designer is not an artist but a visual communicator who creates clarity and order of information between members of society.

Ok, cool. But why is this interesting for every designer and not only for the minimalists and theorists? Well, when it comes to visual communication, Swiss Design Principles teach you a lot, if not the most about composition, harmony, and structure, which is important if you want to improve any design.

It's functional, objective, extremely systematic, and universal. The main goal is to communicate in the most adequate visual way. And if you learn how to do that, how to put the font in hierarchy and harmony, and how to create visual balance with just some letters, that will elevate every other type of design you'll be going for.

It is especially relevant for contemporary design concepts where it is less about the individual logo or poster and more about the coherence of these things. 


At its best, a logo is created with a quality font according to a grid. The same grid is then adapted for posters, the website, and so on, forming everything, from the typeface to complex commercials, into a harmonious unit – a visual identity.

If done correctly, the grid-based layout of a medium can be enough to tell the viewer which campaign it belongs to. You may have noticed this with big fashion labels these days. We see an ad and can immediately guess which brand it represents without even seeing the logo. And it’s thanks to Swiss Design Principles.

Let’s go! So what do you need to achieve that International Typographic Style? Kittl’s Swiss Design Poster Ideas show you how the above principles can be implemented and expanded to give you the best possible introduction to this exciting topic. But let’s scratch the surface of the theory first.

Universal belief might be that your work is done when there is nothing left to add. But in Swiss Design, work is perfect when there is nothing to remove from it. This becomes particularly clear when you look at the perfectly constructed fonts of swiss typography, which form the visual basis for the entire design niche. 

The main focus of these fonts is legibility. They should appear as objective as possible. This is also the reason for the lack of serifs, which categorizes them into the so-called Sans Serif Typography, also known as Grotesque Fonts. 

Famous examples of these typefaces include Helvetica, Akzidenz Grotesk, Univers, and Frutiger. The latter is relatively close to Poppins, which you can use in Kittl to give your designs that super sharp look.

If we keep it simple, a Swiss design grid is based on the typeface that we are using. Obviously, the grid divides a two-dimensional plane into smaller fields. These fields correspond in-depth to a number of text lines. The fields are separated by an intermediate space with a width of one, two, or more lines of text, so it's impossible to get messy. 

There is virtually no limit to the number of grid divisions, but we advise you to use three to four vertical columns, or go with a higher number that can be easily divided.

Swiss design sorts the information so that the viewer perceives the most important information first. This is accomplished by enlarging the font because the human brain is unconsciously reading it from largest to smallest. 

The viewer moves from information to information, and your concentration is automatically increasing due to the decreasing font size. So if you work in advertising and want people to squint while checking out your design, this might come in handy.

Now you’ve got a small glimpse of this academic design topic. And if you find it interesting and want to learn more, you will find the most important key points and some book recommendations below. 

Maybe these thoughts will move you to delve deeper into the International Typographic Style and make a few designs yourself. Maybe a poster series for an exhibition or an opera, a magazine cover, a futuristic fashion campaign, or simply a minimalistic logo. The possibilities are endless, as always. Have fun and Create Magic.

Asymmetrically organizing the design elements on a mathematically-constructed grid to create Visual unity in composition.

Presenting visual and textual information in a clear and factual manner, using objective photography and illustration, and ensuring that it filters any propaganda and the exaggerated claims of commercial advertising

Using sans-serif typography, set flush left, ragged right. The movement believed sans-serif typography expressed the spirit of a progressive age and those mathematical grids were the most legible and harmonious means for structuring information

Design is a socially worthwhile and serious vocation.

In design, there is no room for eccentricity or idiosyncrasy. Design should be grounded on universal artistic principles, and using a scientific approach should provide a well-defined solution to a problem.

The designer is a visual communicator and not an artist. The designer acts as an objective and reliable transmitter of important information between members of society.

The idea of design is to achieve clarity and order.

Pioneer of Swiss Graphic Design by Josef Müller-Brockmann

Swiss Style Poster Design

The custom of marking bodies with permanent designs is probably as old as mankind itself, or at least very ancient. The oldest tattoos ever found belong to Otzi the Iceman - a guy who lived 5,300 years ago. Tattoo graphics have evolved over the centuries into a wide variety of styles with many different forms and meanings.

When it comes to tattoos nowadays, you don’t necessarily need a needle, ink, and pain anymore. No need to make a long-lasting decision, as you can easily change your tattoo like your underwear. Just put on one of your favorite tattoo design T-shirts made by your best friend: yourself!

Though we have outgrown the style of Ed Hardy who made the tattoo T-shirt popular in the 2000s, there has been an emerging trend since. Tattoos now not only adorn the body but all sorts of apparel as well. They express feelings, cultures, and current issues, which can be status symbols, signs of religious beliefs, or declarations of love to your girl, boy, or even Mum ❤️.

Trying to find inspiration for your tattoo design?

First of all: Inspiration is key. No matter if you love old-school symbols like skulls, snakes, and anchors, or fancy a more minimalistic design – tattoo magazines, art books, and many more sources will help you to define your style. Take a close look at your surroundings. You can soak in the current Zeitgeist which may inspire you to some trendsetting ideas. Ask yourself: Which symbols and what kind of text should be included in my tattoo T-shirt design? Do I like banners and ornaments, or do I want a clean simple look? Which color combinations are ideal for my purpose?

Of course, we won’t leave you alone at this point. You can always start from scratch in Kittl, but also find loads of tattoo design templates that can be modified easily. We made a list of our top 10 tattoo T-shirt designs below. 🙌

Looking for nice illustrations you can use? Our elements library is full of them. Besides illustration sets like Skulls, Traditional Tattoos, Banners, and Animal Drawings, you can search for tags like moth, flower, rose, anchor, tiger, eagle, and more to find your favorites.

Kittl Illustration Set: Traditional Tattoos

PLUS, here is a list of great artistic tattoo fonts, perfect to support your designs with beautiful lettering. Of course you can find them all in the Kittl font library.

As you can see, Kittl has got you covered with all the tools you need, so there’s no need to wait any longer. Are you excited to get your tattoo T-shirt career started? Yeah, we thought so!

Create Tattoo T-Shirt Designs Easily

The Unsplash photo library is here! You might have stumbled over this amazing, free-to-use library of stunning photography called Unsplash. We are very excited to partner up with this talented community of photographers and to give you direct access in Kittl.

With the Unsplash integration, you can access over 3 million high-resolution images from more than 290k photographers around the globe. No need to spend time on external stock libraries looking for photography. All pictures are royalty and copyright free and usable in personal and commercial projects. Simply search for your favorite pictures and drag & drop them onto your artboard without ever leaving the Kittl editor.

Click on the camera icon in the left panel to open the photo library

Search for a topic of choice to load new photos

Click a picture or drag & drop it onto your artboard

The photo feature opens a gigantic new range of design possibilities. You can use it to add personality to your poster or card designs, you can use it for backgrounds, labels, or social media posts. The list of use cases is endless, so we are super excited about what you are creating in Kittl. Here are a few examples to get you started.

Running a store sale and need some eye-catching imagery? 

Get your summer sale ready with some retro neon-styled cards. You can easily combine premade text layouts with beautiful photography and create stunning flyers, ads, or posters with a few clicks.

Tip: You can change the blending mode of a photo. It creates different moods, depending on your background color.

Be sure to send a reminder to your friends and family to save the date. Discover the giant library of atmospheric pictures or replace them with your personal ones. We've prepared easy-to-use designs to get you started.

NEW: A giant photo library at your fingertips

In the previous article, we showed examples of how Netflix and Warner used to create stunning movie titles. Here we’ve made a small guide to help with your movie title process. Follow these steps to easily prepare your own design:

Identify the era and design style you want for your poster.

Determine the mood your audience should feel when they see your poster.

Make it unique
There are several ways to give your title that certain something. Looking at past time movie posters, we see a lot of artistic typography. Lettering with ornate features, bold block shading, or decoration is still common today.

Kittl includes easy-to-use editing features to get the same results with just a few clicks. Combining text effects, font styles, and textures, allowing endless possibilities to enhance your creation. Let’s take a closer look at a few techniques:

Using alternate characters
A lot of our fonts include alternate characters. That simply means that a font contains multiple versions of certain letters. Alternate characters are often ornate, have a distinctive shape, or offer another style. You can search for alternates by clicking the “Glyphs” icon in the text settings panel. Click a letter to apply it to your text box.

Tip: You can use the search bar to find alternates of certain letters.

Adding shading effects
A blockbuster needs some 3D shading, agree? Easy – let’s add the third dimension. Select your text and switch to the text effects tap in your settings panel. You can choose between simple drop shadows or detailed 3D blocks. Use the sliders to modify.

Adding decoration effects
But there is more! As a little extra you can use text-decoration effects to apply more detail to your main type. Use the sliders to find a good balance and line weight.

Apply textures
Now that we have our title ready, let’s take a look at our overall image. You might have noticed that we are aiming for a western look here. We add a photo of our scenery and move it to the back (right-click → to back). 

We apply a paper texture from our texture library to blend everything together.

Tip: If you want to use multiple textures, you can release a texture by clicking “Release Texture” in the settings panel. Once released, a texture is a regular image and can be moved around.

Let’s go a step further and bring our beautiful movie title to life. We set our artboard size to “Poster Big” (24x36 inch). Now we add additional text for our film details, actors, and dates to make the poster complete. We use a standard layout that spotlights the main actors and of course our title.

Tip: Use text layouts to add pre-formatted text blocks. Click on “Text” in the left toolbar to open the layout library. Click or drag & drop a text block onto your artboard.

So now that you’ve seen how easy it is to get started with Kittl, go ahead and give it a try. Don't waste your time or money on expensive and hard-to-use design tools. Bring your poster design process in-house, and create, share, and publish your designs all in one place.

We prepared a collection of ready-to-use poster designs, including our beautiful Sundowner design. Simply click any design below and open the Kittl editor to customize it.

Want to learn more about movie title design and how major streaming platforms like Netflix are creating their remarkable posters? Read the previous article here: 

Create movie title designs like Netflix & Warner

How to create your own movie title design in Kittl

Ever searched a loooooong time for the right color composition in order to have a harmonious and balanced look? Or just been curious about how the whole atmosphere of your design can change just by using other colors? 

We recently created color palettes for you, so you can easily play around with just a few clicks. Wanna say hi to “First Love”, “Gold Rush” or “Mango Dreams”?

Click on the color palette icon which you can find next to your project colors at the bottom right of your screen

Below your current color palette, pick any preset palette by clicking

You might have noticed the toggle above all palettes named “Auto Adjust Brightness”. We included a smart feature to make sure your design doesn’t lose any of its color brightness. You can easily switch it on or off.

Ever searched a loooooong time for the right color composition in order to have a harmonious and balanced look?

Kittl Blog - New: Switch Color Palettes with One Click

NEW: Switch color palettes with one click

Ever noticed those super cool movie title designs on Netflix? You might be wondering, how would I create something like that? We’ll show you how.

We are so pleased to see Kittl designs being used across major streaming platforms like Netflix. In this article, we will take a look at the characteristics of great movie titles and what things to consider when you create your own stunning movie poster in Kittl.

Using cool typefaces and special typesetting is a popular approach to creating a movie’s identity and bringing posters, trailers, and previews to life. And creating a stunning movie title isn’t as hard as you might think, because designs like these below are made easy with Kittl:

A remarkable movie title design is easy to remember and perfectly translates the movie’s vibe. When you see the “Stranger Things” title, you already know the setting of the show. This neon lettering style is unique to the 80s, and combined with dark backgrounds it brings you into the right mood of the show before even clicking play. 

Be sure that your design is attention-grabbing and excites viewers' curiosity. This doesn’t have to be achieved through flashy pictures. The right choice of type and effects can tell a lot about a story and catch interest.


Movie titles can reach from ornate and wild to minimal and clean. But whatever you go for, make it memorable and not ordinary. Here’s a few more examples to show you what we mean:

Sounds great. But how do I create my own movie title?
As already mentioned in the beginning, Kittl easily allows you to create studio-quality movie titles with just a few clicks. You can either start with a design from the large selection of templates or get started from scratch. Easily learn new design techniques and improve yourself to become a better creator - create like a pro and do it like Netflix & Co. You can just sign up for free and give it a try. We’ll follow up with a detailed tutorial that will guide you step by step through the creation process:

Kittl Blog - Create Movie Title Designs Like Netflix & Warner

Create Movie Title Designs Like Netflix & Warner

Are you in love with a certain typeface? Well, although we from Kittl think we have the very best typefaces from London to New York and Tokyo, we created a new feature for you: Font uploads! Now you can upload any other beloved font from your computer. This means you have even more options to individualize a design and make it your very own.

Think this is the best news ever? Here is one more: You can apply all of our text effects to your uploaded fonts. Transform it, give it a shadow, a fancy decoration… The options in Kittl are endless, but you knew that already.

Wanna use your own font or crave for Helvetica instead of Blackriver when creating your summery Feel-Good poster? Here’s how to upload your font:

In your chosen template, click on some text to open “Text Settings”

Open the library by clicking the typeface preview

Choose a font from your computer (must be TTF or OTF file)

Add more font styles or upload your chosen one by clicking “upload to library”

You can find your uploaded font in the typeface library under “Uploads”

Please notice: Due to legal restrictions, the custom uploaded fonts are only accessible in your own account, which means that no one will see it or be able to use it. Also, it is not possible to publish your design in Kittl for the community.

The feature is available for Pro & Expert accounts. Click here to upgrade your account, starting at $10/month.

Are you in love with a certain typeface? Well, although we from Kittl think we have the very best typefaces from London to New York and Tokyo, we created a new feature for you: Font uploads!

Kittl Blog - New: Upload Your Fonts to Kittl

NEW: Upload your fonts to Kittl

Since the very beginning our goal has always been to provide the most amazing graphic tools and to empower everyone to create stunning art. This is what you loved and what we are burning for.

Starting Heritage Designer last year was a blast. Over 10.000 users within just a few days was crazy. We have never seen so much positive feedback before and so many new creations popping up. Amazing - thank you so much for this!

With all the creations and feedback popping up we have seen many different use cases that made it clear we were not only empowering Heritage lovers but also an entire global community of creators who now easily bring new ideas to life.

For this reason and after many discussions with you and your peers we have decided to rebrand Heritage Designer and allow the whole world of creators to take part in it:

What does this mean?
We changed our name and are expanding our library so that we enable new ways for everyone to start creating in Kittl.


What does change for you?
www.heritagedesigner.com is now www.kittl.com. Your login stays the same and all your designs stay there of course.

How does it change the platform?
As a platform we will continue to expand into many different areas of design in the future so that Kittl will become the ultimate place to start any creation - no matter what.

This is just the beginning - there is yet so much more to come and we're looking forward to shaping the future of design together with you. Stay tuned!

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