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Making Your Fonts More Artistic for Brochure Printing |
Article Submitted by: charen smith
Thursday, 05 November 2009
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Creating artistic print brochures does not necessarily mean creating the best layout or adding the best pictures. The font styles of your text in brochure printing also has a major role in the design. Since a lot of brochures use text, they influence the look of your brochures a great deal. So it is important for you to know how to get more artistic in terms of fonts in brochure printing. However if you feel that you are a little clueless as to how to improve your fonts to become more artistic for your brochures, you need not worry. I have five simple to follow tips for you that should achieve that easily. • Add different color borders - In design software it is possible to add "strokes" or different colored borders in your font text. This basically adds an area of color around the outline of your text, making it stand out quite well. People will notice text with these special borders immediately. You can use this quite effectively for the cover of the brochure, or even some of your topic headers if you want. • Add glowing effects - You might also want to try to add "glow effects" in your text. If you have seen posters with text that have rays of light around it, this is the effect I am talking about. This effect is also common in design software, and it can be applied similarly to how you add color borders or strokes. The difference though is that glowing effects add a subtler and more interesting effect. You can use this quite well for certain choice words that you want people to notice immediately. Words like "Free" or "only $3.99" are usually prime for using glow effects. It adds energy to these words making them all the more effective. • Using gradient color fillers - Now if you want a more artistic color for your font, you might be able to use two all at once with the use of gradients. Gradient color fillers basically use two colors. These two colors are then seamlessly blended to one another through the length of an object or specific texts. This usually adds a play of light and color to text which would otherwise just have plain black or pure colors that can seem bland. • Using shadows and opacity settings together - Another cool tip to make things artistic for your fonts is to use the shadow effects and opacity effects together. You can do this by adding shadows unto the layer of your text, and then bringing the opacity of that text to zero. You will then be left with only the shadow outlines of the text, with no actual color filler. This effect is quite artistic and lets you add a subtle shadowed text with a simple three dimensional effect. • Downloading new and interesting fonts - Finally to keep your brochure interesting you should try downloading new and interesting fonts from the Internet. There are a lot of artistic fonts out there that are free. Choosing the right one for your theme can score you a nicely done layout with the appropriate font style to boot. So browse through them, try them out and experiment. You never know what artistic type you may be able to come up with. Great! So get artistic with the fonts for your brochure printing! It will be well worth the effort. Good Luck! For comments and inquiries about the article visit Brochure Printing and Print Brochures Article Source: http://www.ArticleBlast.com |
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