Quality mid weight t-shirt.  Neither soft nor rough to the touch.  Right up the middle.  I found the "large" size to be smaller than a Carhartt medium, so I'm ordering the next size up.  I have proportionally wide shoulders for my size and this fit very tight in the arm pits.  The seams dug into my pits and were quite uncomfortable.  So a smaller person I know very quickly scooped this up as they fell in love with it.  So I would suggest that you order larger than normal.