{"id":200,"date":"2007-09-12T20:35:50","date_gmt":"2007-09-12T20:35:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gosquared.com\/liquidicity\/archives\/200"},"modified":"2019-11-28T13:50:02","modified_gmt":"2019-11-28T13:50:02","slug":"make-indented-text-with-this-super-easy-method","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gosquared.com\/blog\/make-indented-text-with-this-super-easy-method","title":{"rendered":"Make indented text with this super easy method"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/static.gosquared.com\/images\/liquidicity\/07_09_12_lq_tut_bevel01.jpg\" alt=\"Bevel post main image\" \/><\/p>\n<p>A popular graphical style at the moment is to make your text look indented. I spent months and months trying to work out how to do this after seeing it perhaps for the first time in iTunes. I always looked for a filter or a tool to &#8220;emboss&#8221; or &#8220;bevel&#8221; the text, but these never looked quite as nice, and often made the text hard to read.<\/p>\n<p>One day, it hit me: it&#8217;s SO SIMPLE! And the method I came up with didn&#8217;t involve filters, plug-ins, or any other jazz like that.<\/p>\n<p>All you need to do to create the effect of indented text is to <strong>duplicate<\/strong> the line of text, with the duplicate behind, and slightly below the original.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/static.gosquared.com\/images\/liquidicity\/07_09_12_lq_tut_bevel02.jpg\" alt=\"Bevelled dark text in Illutsrator\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Then, make the duplicated text slightly lighter than the original text. This will work perfectly when you have dark text, just like in the title of this post.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/static.gosquared.com\/images\/liquidicity\/07_09_12_lq_tut_bevel03.jpg\" alt=\"Bevelled light text in Iluustrator\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Also, not many people realise you can use this method with light coloured text aswell. However, instead of moving the duplicated line of text <strong>below<\/strong> the original, you move it <strong>above<\/strong>, and make it <strong>darker<\/strong> than the original text. This will look just as good and give the same effect.<\/p>\n<p>This method can be used in almost any application, but I made these with Adobe Illustrator. It&#8217;s great to know that something that looks so good can be done so easily.<\/p>\n<p>Hope this helps  \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/downloads.gosquared.com\/vectors\/Bevel_Text_01.ai\" title=\"Ai\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/static.gosquared.com\/images\/liquidicity\/doc_ai_icon.png\" title=\"Ai\" alt=\"Ai\" align=\"left\" height=\"48\" width=\"48\" \/> Get the Adobe Illustrator CS2 File [1.1MB]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A popular graphical style at the moment is to make your text look indented. 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