Want to spice up your graphics? One easy way to make any kind of graphics look good is to add cool looking text. This one change alone can turn a plain boring design into something eye catching.
Let me show you an example. Which of the graphics below looks better to you?
1. Header with plain text.
2. Header with killer text.
As you can see, both of the headers above are almost the same, the only difference being the text. Doesn't header 2 look much better? The second header looks good enough to be used on an actual site. And as you can see at the top of this page I did use this header on my site :)
The fact is that text plays a major part in any design. If you have good enough looking text, you don't even need any images. Killer text will spice up and make any design better.
But it's not that easy to create killer text if you're not a design professional. I know this from experience, as I used to struggle myself with text in my early days as a designer.
But along the years I've picked up some skills, and created some "shortcuts" for myself to make the text creation and formatting easier.
Basically, killer text boils down to 2 things. Fonts and Layer Styles. Combining these 2 things together will create truly eye popping text effects. And the good news is that I've done the legwork and compiled a nice collection of fonts and layer styles for you to use.
It's really simple to create killer text yourself once you have the proper fonts and layer styles.
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