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Modern business card printing and design has become a more creative process as of late. Gone are the stuffy, formal-looking business cards of old. Nowadays, people are more creative with their layouts, especially with their font styles for business cards.
In this article, I will give you five of the most popular font style effects that you can try out for your business card designs. These effects are the best tricks that can improve the look and impact of your text for business cards. So read on and see if it is possible to try these out on your custom business cards.
1. Texture filters The first thing on our design effect palette are texture filters. If you are unfamiliar with texture filters, these are the special effect filters that add textured or material element designs into your graphic or text. For example, there are special texture filters that can make your text look like it was made from wood, metal, canvass, rock etc. This is a great effect to use if you are trying to create an interesting creative theme for your custom business cards. Keep in mind though that only text with large letter areas will benefit from this kind of filter.
2. Shadow additions Another good font style effect to try out are shadows. Shadows in a design sense are just dark gray areas that simulate the effect of light and shadows in the business card design. In terms of text, this makes your text content look like it was lifted from the background in front of a light source. This effect is great for printing business cards as promotional materials or as advertising tools. Also, if you are in a more creative field you can use this effect for your name and even your company logo or title. Those text elements will make those particular content "pop out" in the design making the more visible.
3. Color effects For a more subtle design addition in business card printing, you can also try color font style effects. I am not talking about just adding colors in your text here. I am talking about adding color gradients. Color gradients are subtle color changes that you can put into your business card text so that parts of the text change from one color to another seamlessly. Lots of people use this for great effect giving the business card text a more interesting color hue. This can even be used for professional and formal business cards since their effect is quite elegant.
4. Glow effects Now, if you need something to really stand out in your business card designs, look no further than the glow effect for your fonts. Glow effects are precisely what their name says. They add a glow, such as the kind you see in lights, around your business card text. Typically this is done in a white or yellow color, but the glows can actually be done in any kind of color you deem necessary. If you want people to get excited about a particular word or phrase in your business card, this is the font effect that I recommend you use.
5. Gleam effects Finally, with the advent of web 2.0, even business cards have been turning to more gleam effects in their text designs. So one of the most popular font effects to use today are gleam effects. This basically involves adding a virtual "embossed" effect into the text to make it look like it is more three dimensional as it gleams with light from one side. This is a great way to make text more cute, rounded and up to date with the times. So if you want something new and popular for your font styles, you should start testing these gleam effects out.
Great! What are you waiting for? Why don't you try out these great font effects for business card printing?
