Spirit wear without the purchase order headache
Spirit wear for schools, youth and adult in one order, plus a design guide: logo permission, readable colors, approvals and timing. No minimums, free shipping.
Same design, whole catalog
One crest, on everything the school orders
Spirit tees for the class, a polo for the front office, a mug for the staff room. The same artwork, the same order, one checkout.
The schools, teams and businesses shown are examples. Start your own design, free, no card.
Most spirit wear vendors want a quote request, a 24-item minimum, and a two-week email thread before you see a mockup. You can design here in five minutes and pay with a card.
One order, youth through adult
Youth tees and hoodies sit alongside adult sizes in the same cart. A class of 26 kids and eight adult chaperones is one checkout, not two orders and two shipments.
Bring your size run
If you already collected sizes on a form, enter the counts directly: 4 YS, 9 YM, 11 YL, 6 S, 8 M, 5 L, 2 XL. Every size up to 2XL is the same price per item, so your per-student cost doesn't change based on who ordered what. Still gathering them? Collect sizes by link, and each person puts in their own.
Staff polos that match
The same design goes on the polo for teachers, coaches, and front office staff - same colors, same logo, appropriate for a school day. Pair polos for staff with tees for students in one order.
Common uses
- Field trip shirts (easy to spot in a crowd - pick a loud color)
- Team and club hoodies
- Spirit week and pep rally tees
- Volunteer and booster club shirts. A group of 12 to 72, with sizes collected by link, is on custom PTA shirts.
- Staff polos for open house and picture day
Pricing and payment
Published prices, no quote step. Adult tee $14.38, youth tee $19.99, adult hoodie $37.99, youth hoodie $37.99, adult crewneck $34.99, youth crewneck $34.99, polo $25.63, long sleeve $22.99. Mugs start at $11.30, totes are $13.33 and notebooks start at $13.39. Shipping to one address within the United States is free on every order, with no shipping line to budget for unless you choose faster shipping; sending parts of the order to other schools adds their extra postage, shown in the cart before you pay. Pay at checkout with a card. If your school requires a purchase order, your cart downloads a quote PDF to raise it against, and you can pay by card or by invoice; for a W-9, email us. See quotes and purchase orders.
Want the deeper cuts - fundraising storefronts, senior class shirts, PTA order logistics, staff appreciation? See the school spirit wear guide for all of them, the spirit wear fundraiser guide for the profit math and an order form, or spirit wear fundraising math for what a PTA clears per shirt at each markup. The morale and fundraising overview is the short version of both in one page.
For PTAs, boosters, advisors and staff
Designing spirit wear that works
Spirit wear is read from across a gym, worn by eight-year-olds and their grandparents, and approved by at least one adult who is not you. Here is what reliably works, what trips schools up, and where the designer does the checking for you.
Spirit tees, youth and adult in one order
Senior class shirts
PTA and booster orders
Staff mugs and gifts
What works
Two or three bold colors on a contrasting shirt
On a dark shirt the printer lays a white base under the ink, and soft edges and faint gradients pick up a chalky halo. Solid shapes, clear outlines and a garment that contrasts with the art print cleanest; save gradients for white shirts.
Source: Printify: DTG underbase on dark apparel; Printify: gradients in DTG
Letters sized for the gym, not the phone
A signage rule of thumb is about an inch of letter height for every 10 feet of comfortable reading distance. A 3-inch "CLASS OF 2027" reads across a gym; a 1-inch school motto does not.
Start from the school's official files
Many districts publish their logo files and usage rules for boosters and vendors. A clean file from the district beats a logo saved off a website every time.
Source: Clear Creek Amana CSD: logo use; Union Public Schools: logo policies
Let the shirt be the school color
Printers cannot promise an exact Pantone match, and some brand blues and neons sit outside what the inks can reach. Choosing a shirt that already is the school color, then printing white or one contrast color on it, gets you closer than chasing a match in ink.
Source: Graphics Pro: Pantone matching in DTG; DTGMerch: color accuracy in DTG
Knock out big solid blocks
A large solid panel on a dark tee becomes a stiff patch of base ink that does not breathe. Distressed textures and knockouts keep the shirt soft - which is also what gets it worn after spirit week.
What to watch for
Using the official logo without permission
School logos and mascots usually belong to the district, not the school. Some districts let their own boosters and PTOs use them freely but require outside vendors to hold a license, and most forbid altering the mark.
Source: Cypress-Fairbanks ISD: logo and branding permission; Union Public Schools: logo policies
Ask the district's communications office before you print the official logo. If approval will take longer than you have, ask Remi for an original design built from the school's name and colors - no one's mark, no one's permission needed.
A mascot that looks like a college or pro logo
Universities have sent cease-and-desist letters to high schools over lookalike marks, and the NFHS notes a full rebrand can cost a school six figures.
Source: NFHS: trademark issues with college names and logos
Describe your mascot in your own words - "a fierce wildcat leaping, school colors" - and Remi makes an original one. At checkout you confirm you own or have permission for everything in the design.
Senior shirts with a meaning nobody caught
In 2025 a Maryland senior class shirt shipped with a letter-and-number combination that read as a slur, and at a New Hampshire school a different design went to the printer than the one that was approved.
Source: Bethesda Magazine: Sherwood HS senior shirt; CBS Boston: Concord HS fundraising shirts
Send the advisor or principal a For approval share link: they see the design on the shirt exactly as it will print. Read every number and acronym aloud before anyone signs off, and order from that same saved design.
Printing students' names or photos
Under FERPA, schools may share directory information such as names only after notifying families, who can opt out. A list of every senior may include a student whose family said no.
Source: U.S. Dept. of Education: FERPA FAQ
Paste the names from a list the school has cleared. Remi prints each name exactly as typed, so the spelling check is yours - read the list once more before ordering.
A logo that prints blurry
Printers ask for artwork at 300 DPI at the size it prints. A logo copied from a website is usually a fraction of that.
Source: Printify: high-quality design files
Remi checks every placement against 300 DPI. It warns below that, will not send anything under 180 DPI to print, and offers a sharper redraw or a smaller print in the same message.
A fundraiser nobody approved
Districts commonly require principal or superintendent approval for any fundraiser that uses the school's name.
Source: Carroll ISD: fundraising policies
Get the approval first. Then a storefront lets families order their own sizes and pay directly, and your group earns a share of what the storefront sells - no cash box, no leftover boxes.
How to approach it
Write the brief
Who is buying (PTA, booster club, class, staff), the date the shirts are needed, who approves, and whether you have the district's logo file or permission.
Design in the chat
Describe it in plain words or upload the official file. Ask Remi for two or three directions in the school colors and compare them on the actual shirt.
Get it approved
Send a For approval share link to whoever signs off. Treat any change after approval - a name, a date, a line of text - as a new approval.
Collect sizes
Use a form with a hard deadline. One vendor suggests two to three weeks with reminders a week and three days out. Or open a storefront and let families order their own.
Order against the date
Production takes up to 10 business days, then free tracked shipping. Count back from the day the shirts have to be worn, not the day you decide.
Questions
Can we put the school logo on our shirts?
If you have permission, yes - upload the district's official file and Remi places it. School logos and mascots usually belong to the district, so check with its communications office first. If you do not have permission yet, Remi can make an original design from the school's name and colors instead.
How far ahead should we order spirit wear?
Production takes up to 10 business days, plus shipping. Add the time you need to collect sizes - two to three weeks is common - and work back from the event date.
Can youth and adult sizes go in one order?
Yes. Youth and adult tees and hoodies sit in the same cart, and every size of a garment is the same price, so a class of kids and their chaperones is one checkout.
Can each family order and pay for their own shirt?
Yes. Open a storefront for the design and share its link; families pick their own size and pay at checkout, and your group earns a share of what the storefront sells.
Do you take purchase orders?
Yes. Your cart downloads a quote as a PDF, valid for 30 days, to raise the purchase order against, and if a price on it goes up in that time, pay the new price, then email us the quote number and we refund the difference. Then pay by card at checkout, which has a field for the PO number, or choose Get an invoice in your cart to pay by card or bank transfer.
Sources (14)
- Printify: DTG underbase on dark apparel
- Printify: gradients in DTG
- Signs.com: letter height and viewing distance
- Clear Creek Amana CSD: logo use
- Union Public Schools: logo policies
- Graphics Pro: Pantone matching in DTG
- DTGMerch: color accuracy in DTG
- Cypress-Fairbanks ISD: logo and branding permission
- NFHS: trademark issues with college names and logos
- Bethesda Magazine: Sherwood HS senior shirt
- CBS Boston: Concord HS fundraising shirts
- U.S. Dept. of Education: FERPA FAQ
- Printify: high-quality design files
- Carroll ISD: fundraising policies
Read September 2026. This is general guidance, not legal or tax advice.