Sand and Stripes

Dire Wolf Athletics kept the color palette tight and let the flag do the work.

Overview

Printed on a tan unisex tee, the front graphic is a wide distressed American flag in two-tone olive and muted grey-blue — no red, no white, just worn field colors. The star field sits in dusty blue-grey while the stripes run in earthy olive, all heavily textured and aged. "26" appears small in the upper right corner in the same grey-blue, and "MURPH" anchors below the flag in bold distressed olive block lettering. On the back, the Dire Wolf Athletics kettlebell-wolf logo prints in olive at the upper center, tonal against the tan shirt. Every ink on this shirt exists in the same sand-and-field color world.

Results

This is one of the more restrained Murph shirt designs in the portfolio and it earns that restraint. The two-tone tonal approach feels worn-in from the start, like a shirt that's been through something already. The tan base and olive print combination reads authentically military without relying on the usual red and blue. These Murph tshirts are built for people who don't need the shirt to shout.