TITLE: Review of my T-shirt design
QUESTION [60 upvotes]: I'm a graphics guy and a wanna-be mathematician. Is the T-shirt design below okay? Or if there's a bone headed error, I'd appreciate a heads up.

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REPLY [17 votes]: I prefer to centralise elements that sit on ground level, i.e. the "footprint",  and ignore cantilevered superscripts, e.g.
$$\huge\frac {\;\; \pi^{^2}}{12}\qquad,\qquad \frac 1{\; n^{^2}}$$
which seem more pleasing aesthetically than the standard 
$$\huge\frac {\pi^2}{12} \qquad,\qquad \frac 1{n^2}$$
If we do that then we have 
$$\huge\color{darkblue}{\boxed{\frac {\;\;\;\; \pi^{^2}}{12}=\sum_{n=1}^\infty (-1)^{^{n+1}}\frac1{\;\;n^{^2}}}}$$
or, using default font size for superscripts,
$$\huge\color{darkblue}{\boxed{\frac {\;\;\;\; \pi^2}{12}=\sum_{n=1}^\infty (-1)^{n+1}\frac1{\;\;n^2}}}$$
I prefer to separate the $(-1)^{n+1}$ so that it doesn't make the fraction top heavy. 
I also prefer that fractions be shown as $\frac ab$ rather than $a/b$ as they are being used in display mode rather than an in-line mathematical expression or a subscript/superscript.
And, of course, for typesetting mathematics, a font with serifs always looks better. Use the image from mathjax here, from the equation writer in Microsoft Word, or from other mathematical typesetting software like $\TeX$.

Note
It might be interesting to consider the comparison in the picture below, taken from chalkdustmagazine.com here.  
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According to the website, the six examples are:  

Official Chalkdust font editor’s handwriting, using black Parker fountain pen  
Professional typesetting, from a 1954 UCL maths exam paper,  
Typewriter, from a 1985 exam paper, in a monospaced font,  
Microsoft’s pre-2007 equation editor, using Times New Roman,  
Microsoft’s post-2007 equation editor, using Cambria Math,  
LaTeX, using Computer Modern.

Notice that in example 1 (handwritten), the $1$ and $n$ are centred, and the superscript $2$ is much smaller than $n$. Hence when writing, it seems to be natural to do this. 
For example 2 (manual typesetting), ite seems that the typesetter is trying to centre the $1$ and $n$ as much as possible, although the $2$ is almost the same size as $n$. 
For examples 4,5,6 (all computer typesetting systems), the $n$ is off-centre. However, for example 4, the spacing and font size of superscript $2$ seems to be much more pleasing in that it is placed higher than $n$ and is also smaller in size.