15 Amazing Vector Text Effect Tutorials

January 9th, 2009

In this post I have tried to give you a good collection of Vector Text Effects Tutorial. All we know that using Photoshop we can do lot of things with text. But Adobe Illustrator also provides us with an excellent opportunity for creating amazing effects with text. Even in these tutorials we can know that there is plenty to be learned for text effects in Illustrator.

Creating an Environmentally Friendly Green Type Treatment
In this Illustrator tutorial, you will learn how to create a Green type treatment. It works great for logos and other design elements.

Tug and Twirl Text in Illustrator
The sky’s the limit when you convert Illustrator text to outlines. It’s so easy to change each letter’s size, position, and color, and even push and pull letters into fantastic new shapes. When you outline text, Illustrator converts each letter to an object with paths and points, which you can select and adjust. You can also change colors and combine letters with other shapes.

Tug and Twirl Text in Illustrator

How to Create a Trendy Retro Type Treatment
In this Illustrator tutorial, you can learn how to create a trendy retro type treatment with a free font, gradients, blends, and some scatter brushes. This is a relative easy tutorial containing techniques that can be quickly applied to many other type treatments and various graphic elements.

Create a Swirly Type Treatment
This tutorial is about how to create a swirly type treatment. Using a free font, some brushes, and gradients you can easily create this type treatment. You can apply these techniques to other type treatments, logos, and illustrations as well.

Create a Cool Water Effect
In this tutorial you will learn how to use mesh tool to create water droplets , use the symbol sprayer tool using symbol of water droplets and dispersing them .

Adding Gradients to Text
Many of you have seen this technique before in other blogs or are already aware of how to add gradients to text, but it is worth mentioning for those that don’t know this technique. Moreover, adding an extra step to this known technique, enables you add transparent gradients to text in Illustrator CS4 while still keeping the text editable!

Adding Gradients to Text

Gradient Strokes
This simple technique use Appearance panel and effects to create editable gradient strokes in Illustrator.

Gradient Strokes

Turn Any Font into a Sketch Font
There are some popular sketchy fonts available that are great for grungy and hand-drawn designs and illustrations. But if you want to use this sketchy style in any font then refer this tutorial. It is actually really easy to do in Illustrator. Moreover, you can create a Graphic Style and easily apply the style to other editable fonts.

Sketch Font

Bling Bling Text Effect

Text Effect

Let’s Make a Playful Yet Robust 3D Letter Design
This tutorial is perfect for the advanced beginner who wants to take her skills to the next level. You’ll explore how to create 3D text and use depth-of-field to enhance a design.

Vibrant 3D Pixel Type Treatment
This tutorial is about how to create a fun 3D pixel font type treatment. Using a free font, gradients, and Illustrator 3D filter, you will easily create a type treatment that you can apply to many other fonts.

Vibrant 3D Pixel Type Treatment

How to Create Dirty, Recessed Type in Illustrator
If you want to learn how to craft a custom recessed text effect, then here is a good tutorial for you.

The Hidden Power of the Average Command: Creating Swirly Type
Here you can explore the “Average” command in Adobe Illustrator, and learn how to use it in rather unusual way.

Creating Swirly Type

Grunge Effect, How to Give it to Your Text
Here is a simple tutorial which will show you how to give grunge effect to your text in illustrator , the beauty of using the technique is that you get a text that can be scaled to any size without loosing its clearity . Also you will always have crisp clear edges