You’ll need a tool that will show you all the glyphs available in a font. So I looked through other fonts to find a glyph I could use. I didn’t find any suitable candidates in the Mona Lisa font used to make the 2013 text. The first step was to find an existing flourish that’s close to my needs. The only challenging element was the flourish attached to the 3 of 2013. And the musicians’ silhouettes graphic was a piece of cake using Photoshop’s Magic Wand tool, and then inverting them and tinting them gold. Obviously, making the text elements for “THE JAMMYS” was easy to accomplish. This was a great night of music, reminiscent of The Last Waltz * concert by The Band *, so I decided to use that as my inspiration. Recently, I had to design the cover for a DVD that documented this year’s local musicians reunion banquet, called The Jammys 2013. Search for “free type flourishes” - You may get lucky and find exactly the element you need, ready to use.īut my favorite way to make eye-catching flourishes is to borrow suitable pieces from font glyphs and trim and modify them to be just what is needed. But happily, there’s an easier way.Ĭollections of vector elements are available on the web.
The traditional way to do typographical flourishes requires artistic talent and skill with vector editing tools. Examples are all around us, from sports logos to packaging graphics to even this cool DTG Fonts Festival mug. Typographical flourishes can turn ordinary type into awesome headlines or logos. In this tutorial, designer Karen Stillman shares a look at how she added flourishes to letterforms.įlourishes Add Pizzazz. Even individual style elements such as outlines, fills, and shadows can be blurred or have noise added independently.īy using blur and noise with other effects such as bump maps and embossing you can control the softness and roughness of your objects to. at any time.īlur and noise can be added to all text or graphics. TypeStyler 3 allows you to easily create metallic and glossy effects that can be used to simulate Chrome, gold, glass, Plastic, and other materials.Īll attributes remain fully editable throughout The Design process, allowing changes in font, color, shape, message, etc. Even individual style elements such as outlines, fills, and shadows can have their own images.īy using custom images to style your type, you can simulate an incredible variety of textures and materials. Type can be filled with almost any imported picture. Use transparency with other effects such as embossing, glows, and shadows to create commercial quality artwork in minutes. Individual style elements such as outlines, fills, and shadows can all be controlled independently. With TypeStyler 3, the transparency of every object is completely adjustable. Shadows have settable colors, transparency, softness, noise and much more to allow an infinite variety of effects. With TypeStyler 3 elegant soft shadows can easily be added to both type and imported graphics. Select from a variety of included bump maps or import your own textures from outside sources. With TypeStyler 3, you can apply Bump maps to both type and graphics to get deep textured looks from otherwise flat objects.
TypeStyler 3 lets you easily create a wide variety of embossing effects on both type and imported graphics.Ĭombine emboss effects with transparency, texturing, and noise to create truly stunning graphics in minutes. TypeStyler 3 lets you easily create glows around type or graphics.Ĭombine glow effects with transparency, texturing, and embossing to create truly stunning graphics in minutes.
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