A small headstone. R.I.P. above, the dates 1455 to 2022 below, and a coral em-dash lying where the name should go. Gutenberg's press on one end, the first chatbot everyone actually used on the other. Below it, one line: it fell in with the wrong crowd.

The em-dash was a fine piece of punctuation for centuries. This tee mourns it properly.

For writers and editors, and for anyone who has had their own prose flagged as machine-written for using a semicolon and a dash in the same sentence.

The artwork is drawn from plain shapes: a bar, a circle, a rounded rectangle, arranged by hand. No AI generator touched it, and the listing's how it's made setting says so too.

• Comfort Colors 1717, garment-dyed heavyweight cotton
• Relaxed boxy cut that runs large. If you want a closer fit, size down
• • Sizes S to 4XL
• Made to order and sent tracked, with free delivery

Garment-dyed colours soften slightly with washing, which is rather the point of them. Wash cool, dry low.

FIT NOTE

This is a unisex cut: boxy, relaxed and a little longer in the body. It wears well as an oversized fit, which is how a lot of people prefer it. If you want something closer to the body, take the size below.

SIZE GUIDE (garment laid flat)

S chest 46cm (18in) wide, length 68cm (27in)
M chest 51cm (20in) wide, length 71cm (28in)
L chest 56cm (22in) wide, length 75cm (29in)
XL chest 61cm (24in) wide, length 78cm (31in)
2XL chest 66cm (26in) wide, length 80cm (32in)
3XL chest 70cm (28in) wide, length 83cm (32in)
4XL chest 76cm (30in) wide, length 85cm (34in)

Chest is measured across the garment, so double it for the full chest.
This is a boxy, heavyweight cut and it runs large. If you prefer a closer fit, take the size below.
Measurements are the supplier's own, and may vary by up to 2cm.

THE GARMENT

• Comfort Colors 1717, garment-dyed in the USA
• 100 percent ring-spun cotton, 6.1 oz (207 gsm), so it hangs rather than clings
• Garment-dyed, which is why the colour looks lived-in from day one and softens further rather than fading
• Relaxed boxy cut. It runs large: size down for a closer fit

Colours: Ivory, White, Pepper, True Navy, Moss and Black.

Printed to order, never held in stock, so nothing is made that nobody wants.