Comments on: Make indented text with this super easy method

By: Evan

Evan — Wed, 17 Sep 2008 03:50:22 +0000

Pure Awesome!

By: John Brown / Free Online Games

John Brown / Free Online Games — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 15:02:07 +0000

supperrrr! Thank You

By: FrodeB

FrodeB — Wed, 10 Oct 2007 09:48:24 +0000

This is actually an old old old old technique from back in the photoshop early days., remember doing this on old web graphics in 95 or so. Very cool that retro tips sometimes works even today.

By: Gautch

Gautch — Thu, 27 Sep 2007 01:06:15 +0000

When in Illustrator, I like to keep it even more simple.

Use your Appearance pallet.
1. Type your text out.
2. Open your Appearance Pallet.
3. Add a black fill, (or dark gray).
4. Move the fill below your text.
5. Add a transform affect to that bottom fill.

What this does is makes it so you only have one line of text that you can edit.

Not much of a big deal if you only have one line, but if you have any more lines you can just make the appearance into a Graphic Style. Then apply it to as many lines of text as you want. Pluuuusss.. with the Graphic Style applied when you update it, they aaaalllll update!

-Gautch
see more here -> gautch.com/blog

By: Claudius Coenen

Claudius Coenen — Wed, 26 Sep 2007 23:21:02 +0000

The Cleaner Way is definately the Layer Style's Drop shadow. Set it to a hard edge (i.e. no blur), distance 1 px (depending on purpose) opacity and/or color as you see fit and you're done. Blend mode will be normal instead of multiply.

Benefit 1: If you edit the text, you won't need to copy it again.
Benefit 2: Save this style and apply it with one mouseclick whereever you want.

By: G

Fri, 14 Sep 2007 16:00:44 +0000

Magnus, as Brian says, you can do this effect with a shadow, but I have always found it cleaner and faster to duplicate it in this way.

Also, this method can be used in almost any text editing app as well as all the photo editors etc so in the long run this is probably the best method.

By: Brian

Brian — Fri, 14 Sep 2007 13:08:32 +0000

I've used the solid shadow technique the commenter above was alluding to, but it never looked quite right. I tried this out and it is a little better, especially on larger text.

I am more of a code monkey than a designer, but I the tutorial will factor in on my next project... thanks!

By: Magnus

Magnus — Thu, 13 Sep 2007 15:32:53 +0000

Isn't that quite easy to do with a solid shadow above or below?

By: Michael Castilla

Michael Castilla — Thu, 13 Sep 2007 00:33:28 +0000

That's pretty cool! Thanks for sharing it with us.