I agree! I would definitely buy one.

I suggest a colorful Colemak with keys that bulge and waver; a bit Mac-style (chunky, tasty, 3D, colorful graphics), a bit like a fluttering flag. My image (below) has colors, but this could easily be even more colorful. A rainbow-like appearance might not be a bad idea though.

Mac?
Here's something made by a fellow user (Vilem):

https://forum.colemak.com/viewtopic.php?id=149

Ugh, we want people to become curious and get just a little info from this. That logo is nice for the site where you know what's going on – or for the backside of the shirt for that matter. But for the front, I envision something that actually tells you that Colemak is a keyboard layout.

The ideal would be to capture the spirit of the Windows dynamically wavering flag logo and Apple's chunky-yummy Safari/Aqua/Illuminous(?) design.

Dynamic, bright, colorful, slick – the thought of a letter block like that makes my mouth water

Thing is, color use is related to size and environment. If you do a huge design all over the shirt you might have to choose between a visual shout and toning it down. Whether the shirt's background color is pure white or dark also matters a lot. Personally, I think that a white T-shirt with a bright and catchy design on is a good thing, but ymmv. A rainbow theme can still be very nice in toned-down form:

A stronger color scheme would be ideal for a smaller design. One could make a more stylish, "golfer-like" apparel with a pocket logo. Neat.

At work, one of my coworkers has a T-shirt with "Talk nerdy to me" printed on it. At the 8-bit theater (ZeStuff), you can buy a "+1 Shirt" which is a joke only roleplayers will get. At T-Shirt Hell you can buy downright nasty shirts (I won't get into that). And people who like Colemak have already proven that they are unafraid of taking the less traveled but better path. I don't think you have much to worry about.

The degree of nerdiness is also related to how good the design is. If it had the graphical quality of that Windows flag above, it wouldn't be a problem at all I feel.

My personal favourite in the world of weird and wonderful T-shirts would have to be the ThinkGeek Heavy Metal shirt:
http://www.thinkgeek.com/tshirts/science/8953/zoom/

But that's only up to the day I can don a really nice Colemak shirt. Then the Colemak layout image on my coffee cup won't feel lonely anymore.

I have a "Got Root?" sweater, a "Live in your world, get pwnd in mine" T-shirt, a caffeine molecule t-shirt, and I was considering getting a "there's no place like 127.0.0.0".

Just a thought, It should definitely include the name... otherwise there's no point...

lol i want the "roses are #FF0000, violets are #0000FF" one!

So... if you guys could throw together some sample images, I could create a Colemak t-shirt design.

I have no idea what you're looking for. You've mentioned something about macs and chunky... no clue what that looks like.

      COLEMAK – A WORLD OF DIFFERENCE!

Not because it'd be perfect, but because I find it amusing.  :)

The corner letters are gone, but I don't think that matters so much. Incidentially, this also takes away most of the difference between the standard Colemak and national layouts since those differ in the corners. That means I could use such an idea while thinking of the Norwegian layout, and most other people would think of the standard Colemak from such an image. Interesting effect.

I've done a ton of work with globes and space before.

This is actually what i did it for, to give you an idea of what I can do.
http://www.neomenlo.org/Files/Promotion … htbulb.jpg

I'm kind of swamped right now, but I will get to it. Probably in a week.

In the mean time, how about you guys collaborate, or at least confirm what you want and put it in a definitive list, like Keyboard Samurai just did.

I like Keyboard Samurai's idea. I can visualize it pretty easily.

I'm not to happy with the coloration of the keyboard though. I'm afraid it has to many colors and that it will end up looking too much like a test skin.

Just so you know, when I do it in 3D I can easily get the keyboard to be in the center of the ball, so it doesn't clip it and repeat it in the wrong places.

I'm also not to happy with "A world of difference". It doesn't sound like proper English, even for a fragment, and I don't think it gives the right idea. I would suggest picking your favorite out of the "Awesome Slogan Idea" topic.
Another idea would be to say "A world apart" and have a chaotic QWERTY globe and to the side of it, have a pretty and organized Colemak globe.

Ooops!  I didn't give correct credit to vilem

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/ … 24x768.gif

so how about on a black tshirt

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/ … 24x768.gif 

(NeoMenlo's improved colemak keyboard globe - faint world map?)

"A better world by design"   [white lettering]

or

"Let your fingers travel the world in comfort"

or

"Typing for the world by design"

or

"Typing for all of us"

or

The first option on the front and the second or fourth options on the back of the shirt.

"Never mind KBS" – does that mean keyboards? If so, you're on the wrong page; this is all about keyboards. You can make all the fancy logos in the world but they'll only look like a clothes brand or computing logo or something if they don't tell the viewer that the Colemak is a keyboard. But maybe you meant something else.

New idea: The classic cartoon motion/flash blur cum skew/parallellogram effect. A keyboard is already staggered, but it could be made so that the keys are leaning in addition and there's a motion blur behind. Colemak to QWERTY is like a tuned-up car to a rustbucket (and it may be faster too; but we won't say that out loud since we don't know for sure).

Colemak - tune your keys! kind of concept. Pimp my board.  :)

In this theme it'd be optimal to ditch my much frowned-upon rainbow schemes  ;)  and go for a chrome-like appearance. Maybe silver chrome, maybe red or blue; something car-like and highly reflective. Keyboard Samurai posted a Mac screenshot that shows a somewhat chromelike appearance; it could go much farther still: