30 Text Effect Tutorials for Adobe Illustrator
Published in DesignAdobe Illustrator provides designers with an excellent opportunity for creating amazing effects with text. This post features 30 of the best tutorials on the subject. While there are more tutorials available for working with text in Photoshop, I think you’ll see from this selection that there is plenty to be learned for text effects in Illustrator.
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Blueprint-Style Text in Adobe Illustrator
Creating an Environmentally Friendly Green Type Treatment
Create a Swirly Type Treatment
How to Create a Trendy Retro Type Treatment
Distressed Text with Live Trace
Let’s Make a Playful Yet Robust 3D Letter Design
Tug and Twirl Text in Illustrator
Grunge Effect, How to Give it to Your Text
Create a Vibrant 3D Pixel Type Treatment
Offset Path on Text in Illustrator
3 Ways to Apply a Line Pattern Effect on Text in Illustrator
Wrapping Text Around an Image in Illustrator
Old School Type – Line Gradients
Beveled Text without Filters or Effects
Create Fun, Eye Catching Text with Adobe Illustrator
Text Warping with Envelope Distortion
Making Distressed Type with Adobe Illustrator
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Some nice tuts here, thanks
Thanks for this great tuts! simply superb.
Nice collection of tutorials! Thanks!
-Design was here!
very nice ai text tutorials thanks for collection..
Great round up.
Vectips rules!
amazing tutorial, really i need
this post is cool. i think i found one that would fit my new website. thanks for this post. ill be exploring these links… (www.kika.ca)
Holy smokes these are awesome!
Thank you very much.
nice.
i’ve used it, and to tell you the truth, buttons make a huge different to over all look of a site, unprofessional buttons = people think this is a useless site.
It is the best Text Effect Tutorials! Very nice!!!
Nice toturial and I like it.Thanks
Really these are awesome tutorial. Thank you very much for sharing with us..
Good collections! Thank you so much for this tutorials!
Nice text collections! Thanks for this great tutor sharing.
Nice collection! Some of these effects really rock (like the Playful yet Robust part)!
Also, if you like Illustrator, I recommend you check up this site:
http://www.logobee.com/logo-design-tutorial/tutorial2/logotutorial.htm
You can use this effect for drawings, and for text too!
I have just call ed on of my fellow graphic designers across to have a look at the collection you have put together. We will make use of it.
i have’nt done his course Adobe illustrator but i think you can create this text effect on Adobe photoshop too… but cool Examples REally
These are great. I was wondering how you can accomplish a gradual shrinking or growing font effect that can be applied to spiral path in Illustrator?
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http://www.alogodesigncompany.com/process.html
Thx, its a nice coll…
Excellent & usefull tuts. Thanks!
Wow thats so amazing. i liked the tuts [:)]
i like the those tuts, thanks very much for sharing.
Wow! Some really great tips and tutorials here, just wrestling with a logo design at the moment, and this has given me some really great pointers.
hello. are cool. k bye
i meant these are cool.
Wonderful collections, I love those Retro type ones
Regards
Smita
Nice tutorials .I have read the wrapping text tutorial .It’s quite nice and easy to understand .Thanks a lot
Fantastic tutorials! Just did the “eye-catching” tutorial, love it – thank you
Great tuts.
Very helpful post. Learning how to bring my typography to the next level. Thanks!
Wow! Cool effects. I take this in my work