Easy Way to Customize a Blank Tote

Wanna make something totally unique that's not only art but wearable at the same time? Or perhaps you're a small company experimenting with an idea prior to placing a bulk order? The CUSTA tote bags offer a perfect canvas on which to showcase your artistic skills. And since the fabric is thick, the paint won't affect its shape and form.

However, before designing your canvas, you have to learn how to approach designing on the bag like a pro. That means you need to know the print space and its safe zones so that your artwork would look fantastic whether your bag lies or hangs.

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The Placement Area, Safe Zones, and Blind Areas

When you see an empty tote, you see just a simple piece of cloth in the shape of a rectangle. But the bag is three-dimensional and becomes curved when filled with the necessities of your everyday life. Here are the principle of composition you should keep in mind to highlight your wonderful artwork:

1. Printing Area (The Grid Zone)

Printing Area - Grid Zone — *The dotted rectangular grid represents your* ***Safe Zone.*** *While you technically have fabric outside of this box, you want to keep your main design, text, or focal illustration strictly inside these grid line.*

2. Choosing the Right Print Size

Tote Bag Printing Size — *When you start designing your* *custom CUSTA tote bag*, you'll see several size options in the design panel. Think of these dimensions as the "frame" for your artwork. Choosing the right frame ensures your design isn't too small to see from a distance, or too large that it gets cut off.

CUSTA Tote Bag Print Size Comparison Matrix.

Printing Size Guide

Size	Best For	Why Choose This?
A3	Big, Bold Graphics & Full illustrations	This represents our biggest printing capacity. This is definitely ideal if you would like to have your graphic art spread out on the entire surface of the bag.
A4	Standard Brand Logos & Promotional Prints	It is the most favored print size from among our offerings. It prints perfectly at that great spot in the bag, maintaining wonderful margins to ensure that your logo can easily be seen when the bag is on someone's shoulder.
A5	Wide logos or bold typography quotes	Perfect for text lines in landscape design, larger badge logos or horizontal designs where you'd like the logo to be a little higher up on the tote to prevent it from getting covered if the bottom fold opens wider.
A6	Minimalist branding & subtle accents	Great if you're going for a more sophisticated style of logo like a stamped corner logo, mini logo centered on the canvas, or even pocket branding.

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3. Keep Your Design in The Box: The Purple Line Rule

Tote Bag Purple Line Rules — *The fabric outside the main grid represents "blind areas" — the parts where the design will not be printed.*

While creating your tote bag design, always remember the purple bounding box at the grid of your canvas. The reason behind this is simple; the purple line should be considered as your printing limit.
Everything that you put into your tote bag such as an uploaded image, custom text box, objects, or even a template, needs to fit into this purple line entirely.

What Happen if An Elements Slips Out?

Moving your artwork beyond the purple line initiates our application's live warning message: "Element outside the print area."

⚠️ Do Take Note of This Message: Anything from your designs that extends beyond or even just touches this purple line will be printed since they won't make up a part of your final design.

Quick Fix: Whenever you encounter this warning message pop-up window, all you have to do is select your design and fit it within the purple line.

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Easy Way to Customize a Blank Tote: A Beginner's Guide to Personalizing Your Blank Tote.

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