Khartoum, in collegiate and in ink
Khartum Designs
Cream and royal tees for a Sudanese heritage brand — varsity type on the front, a dense engraved illustration on the back.
The brief
Heritage brands live and die on the type. "KHARTOUM · SUDAN" set in a collegiate slab is doing the same job as a university name across a chest, and it has to be printed with the same precision — an outline that thickens unevenly reads as cheap immediately.
What we did
Two colourways, two separations. On cream the wordmark prints red with a black outline; on royal it prints red with white, so the outline still separates the letters from the garment. Same artwork, tuned per colour rather than reused blindly.
The back print is a different discipline entirely — a "KINGDOM OF KUSH" scene of Nubian pyramids and palms drawn as engraved cross-hatching. Fine parallel line work is where screen printing either shines or fills in, and it comes down to mesh count and holding the line weight through the whole run.
THE RUN
Have a run like this in mind?
Send us the artwork and a rough piece count and we will come back with a quote and a free digital proof. Minimum order is 24 pieces.
