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Making My Own Hacktoberfest T-Shirts

https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2025/07/making-my-own-hacktoberfest-t-shirts/

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Making My Own Hacktoberfest T-Shirts

https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2025/07/making-my-own-hacktoberfest-t-shirts/

Between 2014 and 2022, DigitalOcean sent free t-shirts to developers who completed the Hacktoberfest challenge. For entirely sensible reasons related to sustainability and spammy entrants, they stopped doing physical merchandise in 2023.

I'm the sort of hip fashionista who only wears free conference t-shirts.

GDS
@GDSTeam

We support open source. And we’ve got the t-shirts to prove it (thanks @github @digitalocean). GDS took part in #Hacktoberfest this year, contributing to open source projects as part of a global community hacktoberfest.digitalocean.com pic.x.com/AkM09LGono
❤️ 24💬 3🔁 016:31 - Tue 30 January 2018

Sadly, after several years of constant catwalk modelling, my beloved Hacktoberfest shirts are full of holes. I couldn't find any for sale on eBay or Vinted - so I decided to make my own.

Note: DigitalOcean's Brand Guidelines say that you shouldn't create physical merchandise or sell any products featuring the logo. Well, I'm not selling these nor, do I think, they are merchandise. Hacktoberfest aren't using these to incentivise anyone any more. They're just cool t-shirts.

The Logos

There are lots of photos of the t-shirts but it is surprisingly hard to find the original assets.

Low Resolution

Kotis - a design agency - did the Hacktoberfest swag from 2015-2020. They have a brand portfolio with the t-shirt icons. Sadly, all a bit low resolution for printing, but good for getting accurate background colours for the material.

2020
2019
2018
2017
2016
2015

Similarly, there are a few low resolution promo shots of the t-shirts or their logos:

2022 (back of t-shirt)
2021 (t-shirt)
2016 (more accurate colours)
2015 (logo)
2014 (logo)

AI upscaling looked typically rubbish.

Higher Resolution Bitmaps

Some designers have their logo designs on Dribbble. Not very high resolution, but good enough for stickers.

Archived Logos

The official Hacktoberfest website had some logos embedded on it:

2022 (SVG logo)
2019 (SVG)
2018 (PNG with transparent background)
2017 (SVG)

Best of the bunch

These are the best available logos. The SVGs are suitable for printing at any size, the PNGs may be harder.

2022 (SVG logo)
2020 (SVG)
2019 (SVG)
2018 (WebP 1155x898)
2017 (SVG embedded in page)
2016 (SVG)

Missing

The following are missing 2014, 2015, 2021, 2022 (comic). There are photos of the shirts, and some low-resolution artwork available, all of which are too low quality to be printed. If you know how to get high-resolution images of them - please leave a comment!

2021

There are some elements out there. For example:

This Behance profile of Hacktoberfest 2021
The official logo
The logo with the t-shirt colour scheme
The brand guidelines for more accurate colour reproduction.

2014

There's not much available about the first t-shirt. There's a version of the logo used and some photos but that's about it.

Photos of T-Shirts

If you want to compare the logos to the originals, and see what colour fabric they used, there are lots of photo online:

End Result

If I can't find the missing logos, I'll create my own design for my own personal use. Something like this:

If you have a source for vectors of the missing logos, please drop me a comment.

#hacking #Hacktoberfest #tShirt

🆕 blog! “Making My Own Hacktoberfest T-Shirts”

Between 2014 and 2022, DigitalOcean sent free t-shirts to developers who completed the Hacktoberfest challenge. For entirely sensible reasons related to sustainability and spammy entrants, they stopped doing physical merchandise in 2023.

I'm the sort of hip fashionista who only wears free conference…

Here's a fun trivia question.

#Hacktoberfest started in 2014. For the inaugural event, how many commits did a developer need to make in order to get a free t-shirt and stickers?

(I want your guess - don't look up the answer until you've voted. No posting spoilers in the replies. Thanks!)

Anyone able to help with this #Hacktoberfest quest? I can't find 3 of the logos.

RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:kbaaz4pa76c5rf2lckbi2xdb/post/3lsqjput5fxs2

OK cyber-sleuths, I need your help!

I can't find high-resolution images of the #Hacktoberfest t-shirt logos for:

* 2014
* 2015
* 2021

I've searched GitHub, Dribbble, Wikimedia, Archive.org, and a bunch of reverse image sites.

These are the logos I'm looking for. Ideally SVG, but a high resolution raster image would do. Can you help?

THANKS GANG!

Anyone have a source for old #hacktoberfest t-shirts?

I realise that, basically, I only wear old conference clothing, and my vintage Hacktoberfest shirts are falling to pieces.

None on eBay, only one on Vinted. Not sure if the designs are available for me to reprint my own.

If you've got some (XL) Hacktoberfest TS you're willing to part with - please drop me a note 😃

Just arrived at the #OpenElements offsite in Italy, and directly ran into my #hacktoberfest _partner in shirt_ @sparsick

Sandra und Gerd im Partnerlook mit Hacktoberfest T-Shirt

A new good first issue available for contribution:
A New good issue https://github.com/felipe-lemos/climate-triage/issues/1 #climate #sustainability #opensource #opensustain #goodfirstissue #goodfirstissues #hacktoberfest #hacktoberfest2023

A new good first issue available for contribution:
Add portuguese\nCan someone add portuguese Here? It would be great!\nhttps://github.com/felipe-lemos/climate-triage/issues/11\n#climate #sustainability #opensource #opensustain #goodfirstissue #goodfirstissues #hacktoberfest #hacktoberfest2023

@umbraco Amazing to see so many #hacktoberfest contributions turning into planted trees 🌲

We were thrilled to be part of #Hacktoberfest 2024!

This year's event brought together a fantastic community that tackled over 20 Hacktoberfest-tagged issues, along with numerous beginner & intermediate tasks. It is wonderful to be part of a vibrant community who choose to invest their time in this way.

Curious about how you can get involved? Take a look at some amazing contributor projects on our blog!

🔗https://www.collaboraonline.com/blog/hacktoberfest-2024-what-could-you-hack/?utm_campaign=Events&utm_medium=Social&utm_source=Mastodon&utm_content=Events

#opensource #CollaboraOnline #COOLdev

🗓️ Thursday, November 7, 2024
Progress Report 🌱

🔹 #365DaysofCode Day 312
🔹 #100DaysOfCode Day 46
🔹 #freeCodeCamp #Round_3_100DaysOfCode
🔹 #Hacktoberfest #GitHub #CS50P #Harvard #Trello

✨ Highlights of the Day:

Daily Reading 📖

freeCodeCamp news: 1 article ✅
Daily.dev: 1 article ✅
Datacamp 🎓

Completed Chapters 1 & 2 of Introduction to Testing in Python
Trello 📋

Board updated for better tracking and organization!
#Python #CodingJourney #LearningEveryday #DeveloperLife

🔥 Progress Report | October 31, 2024 🎃

🌟 #365DaysofCode Day 305
💪 #100DaysOfCode Day 39
🚀 #freeCodeCamp #Round_3_100daysofcode
💻 #Hacktoberfest #GitHub #CS50P #Trello

Today’s Achievements:

1️⃣ Daily Reading:
• freeCodeCamp News & Daily.dev:
Read 1 article
2️⃣ CS50P Studies:
📘 Week 6 Lecture: Completed Shorts on Pillow & CSVs
📊 Problem Set Week 6 "Lines of Code" ✔️

3️⃣ Trello:
Updated board 🔄

4️⃣ freeCodeCamp Round 3:
Finished Day 39 with “Basic JavaScript” – Built a role-playing game! 🎮

✨ Neil Shephard, co-organizer of Sheffield R User Group, shares his story with the R Consortium on reviving Sheffield R User Group and developing tools for thyroid cancer prediction. "I’m focused on creating a local group to foster connections."

Discover his journey: https://r-consortium.org/posts/reviving-sheffield-r-user-group-and-building-tools-for-thyroid-cancer-prediction/

#RCommunity #OpenScience #Hacktoberfest #ThyroidCancer #HybridEvents

Last day of #Hacktoberfest !!

We’re at 70 contributors total!

Thanks to everyone who contributed to the project this year ❤️

I’ll be wrapping up the project and getting ready to ship it to the App Store! (I promise I will this year)

https://github.com/mikaelacaron/Basic-Car-Maintenance

Just completed my final #Umbraco #Hacktoberfest article about "How to build a #Scalable, #Secure, and #Performant Umbraco Website on #Azure"

https://www.nurhakkaya.com/2024/10/how-to-build-scalable-secure-and.html

#opensorce #hacktoberfest #umbraco #contributions #azure

Thanks to everyone who contributed to this #Hacktoberfest 2024, we have merged 530 PRs from 90 contributors and 45 issues were closed 🥳🛫. Let's continue this momentum throughout the year to improve the command line experience for all 📚.