Knockout designs are a common style used when making apparel and decals with HTV. If you have been using your Silhouette for a while, you have most likely seen this term used online. These designs are extremely popular with almost every industry and interest. While these designs look difficult, creating knockout designs with Silhouette Studio and your Silhouette cutter can be simple.

A knockout design contains two main shapes, with one shape hidden, or knocked out, inside the other. Knockout designs are primarily text with a shape inside them. The text is made to be a large block, and serves as the base for the second shape to show up. Some people may consider the smaller shape to be simply sitting on top of the base, but the smaller shape is only located in areas where the text is underneath it.

Because the smaller shape only shows up where the bottom text is visible, it is important to keep the bottom text with as little space as possible. This means you will need to use a bold, block-like text and create your lines of text as close as possible.

Knockout designs can be created for countless amounts of teams, groups, or holidays with excellent opportunities to combine vinyl and rhinestones or to add on customizations. These designs are ideal bases for group shirts that can be customized for fundraisers or other bulk orders. These designs create an eye-catching effect and are easy to create to fit most needs.