The shirt says meh. in large, bold, white lowercase letters on a dark ground. No animal. No slogan underneath. No exclamation point. Just the word, the period, and a lot of dark fabric around it. That is the whole design, and it is worth sitting with for a minute, because the visual loudness and the…

The shirt reads NOT FRIENDLY DO NOT TOUCH in warning-sign lettering, with a yellow caution triangle and a crossed-out hand. It is not a subtle garment. The words are set the way a municipal sign sets them: all caps, blunt, no please, no thank you. The triangle does the work that a triangle always does…

Two circles sit on the shirt, and only one of them is solid. The upper left ledge holds a dashed empty circle. The lower right flat ledge holds a solid white ball. Between them, a white curved ramp descends. Above it all, in white capitals: I HAD POTENTIAL. That is the whole design. No punchline…

The garment preview shows a dark shirt with very small, centered lowercase lettering: meh. No animal. No slogan. No exclamation point. The period is there, and the period matters. We have written before about the period after the word, and about the smallest word on the shirt. This one is different in scale. The letters…

The shirt reads LET’S ROOT FOR EACH OTHER AND WATCH EACH OTHER GROW, and the words wrap around four smiling root vegetables — a carrot, a radish, a beet, and an onion — each drawn with its roots visible in the soil. The pun is doing two jobs at once. Root means to cheer. Roots…