Okay, guys, so I saw this phrase, “it’s okay not to be okay,” popping up everywhere, and I thought, “Hey, that’s a cool message, maybe I can put it on a shirt!” I’m not a designer, not even close, but I figured, how hard could it be? (Famous last words, right?)
First Steps: Brainstorming (and Failing)
First, I grabbed a piece of paper and a pen – old school, I know. I started jotting down ideas. Should it be just text? Maybe a little graphic? I doodled some sad faces, some smiley faces with tears… it all looked, well, terrible. Like, really, really bad. I’m talking stick-figure-level bad.
Getting (Slightly) More Serious
Okay, scratch the doodles. I decided to focus on the text itself. I opened up my trusty text editor – nothing fancy, just the basic one. I typed out “it’s okay not to be okay” in a bunch of different fonts. Some were too fancy, some were too plain… Goldilocks and the three fonts, basically.
- Arial: Too boring.
- Times New Roman: Too… formal?
- Comic Sans: Just no. Never Comic Sans.
I finally settled on a font that looked kinda handwritten, a little messy, but in a good way. It felt… authentic, you know?
The (Disastrous) Color Experiment
Next up: colors! I thought maybe a bright, cheerful color would be ironic, or maybe a muted color would be more fitting… I spent way too long playing with the color picker. Seriously, I think I tried every shade of blue imaginable. I even attempted a gradient – big mistake. It looked like a toddler had gotten hold of the computer.
I eventually gave up on fancy colors and stuck with plain black text on a white background. Classic, simple, can’t really mess that up (too much).
Printing and Wearing
Printed on a T-shirt,I could wear.I wear *’s good.
So, yeah, that’s the story of my “it’s okay not to be okay” clothes adventure. It wasn’t pretty, there were definitely some bumps along the way, but I ended up with something I could wear, I guess,that spread a message I believe in. And hey, it’s okay if it’s not perfect, right?
