Fonts

While my fonts gallery is rather simple enough, the examples may require a bit of explanation and some advice.

Each font face example is set at 54 pts, unless otherwise noted at the bottom of the image. Sizing may be important if you feel like specifying such, so make sure your choice will actually fit within the constraints of what you want.

If a font face contains no lower-case characters, that's because the set contains no lower case characters.

These examples are white text on a black background for a very good reason. Some fonts - no matter how nice they may look - are very hard to read. I would also suggest you choose your colors wisely, considering many like colors with stylistic changes can be more easily read than colors several degrees of difference apart.

You could also request that I make such a choice for you, which might solve many potential readability problems.

All of that said, I've included approximately 300 fonts and variations. I also have one to two hundred or more available (including variations) not included in those folders, so if you have a particular font in mind that you do not see listed, please ask as I very well may have it.

Styles and Effects

Like the fonts, you can find various style variations in my style gallery. There it's pretty self-explanatory as well, but a few items may require elaboration. Over time, I plan on illustrating as many effects and applications as are available.

The first image is a simple plain text (font: Bergell; color code: #33cc33) example on a white background. Nothing special there. Please note - I did not choose black on a white background (or white on a black background) as these colors tend not to benefit very much from style changes and various applied effects.

The second image is that same plain text with a drop shadow applied (-45 degree angle of illumination and linear contour; 100% opacity; 5 px distance and size). A very simple means of achieving a 3-D effect in your text, and one that is quite commonly used. But we're not finished just yet.

The third image has had an inner glow applied as well as the drop shadow (-45 degree angle of illumination and conic contour; opacity at 75%; color code: #6699cc; 5 px distance) to give a slight color variation within the text. However, that is not the reason I've applied it. That will become apparent in the next image.

The fourth image illustrates very well the effect of multiple overlay styles applied to a single piece of text.

Embossing has been applied via an inner bevel (-45 degree angle at 45 degree altitude with a linear gloss contour), then a gradient overlay has been applied on top of the previous styling (-90 degree angle of illumination) to enhance the 3-D and lighting illusions.

When choosing a style or effect to be applied to your text (or the background), I guarantee you won't have to be that specific. Rather this has been a way of illustrating the various effects that can be applied, and how you might describe them.

For instance, telling me that you want a "glossy 3-D effect with illumination from the right, and text color #0000cc, background color #000000, font face Britannic" gives me enough information to produce something like this (not that I would recommend any of those choices, but it serves the purpose).

An order that states simply "3-D text, illuminated, fancy Old English style-text, and blue" will get you whatever I can extricate from such a sparse description.

With very little additional communication beyond this, I can create exactly what you need. But being as specific as possible right from the beginning saves you both time and money.