By: Chelsea Nicole
Submitted: 2011-09-29 23:52:19 | Word Count: 614
To enhance the text designs in your envelopes, you will have to overhaul your thinking about what to do with the text style. Altering the size and the font-face is not enough. For your custom envelopes to look more different and unique, you will need to change the very foundations of the text designs and customize them to fit your idea of your own envelopes. Let me give you a few suggestions on how you can do this yourself. Below you will find a list of steps that you can follow to easily enhance the look of your envelope text.
1. Establishing a theme with a distinct font style – As you should know, there are tons of distinct and creative font styles out there. You can use one of these specialized fonts to help you establish a specific design theme for your envelopes.
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From those sleek and new web 2.0 fonts that connote innovation and freshness to those more intricate fonts that actually portray a certain period or era, the choice is yours. As long as it is readable and of course passable for post, you can really be creative and use that distinct font style for a memorable theme with your custom envelopes.
2. Enhancing visibility with creative text colors – Beyond font styles though, you can further improve your custom envelopes by enhancing the visibility of your text through creative colors. Black ink while basic is bland when it comes designs. You can make things a lot more interesting by using more dynamic colors for example.
Instead of just a certain color of ink, you can use dynamic color gradients that change the color of your text seamlessly from one hue to the next. If you choose those colors wisely, this gives you a more modern and dynamic looking envelope text that is worth reading and keeping for most people.
3. Adding emphasis through shadow and glow options – You can further emphasize some of the text in your envelops by using shadow and glow options. These typically are called blending options for your text. Adding shadows and glows will add a special effect of either floating letters to shadows, or very vibrant and significant text that demands attention. For special marketing envelopes this is a crucial design element to add that excitement to the design.
4. Creating more memorable text through 3 dimensional text – Have you heard of 3D text? If not, it is basically the effect of having letters composed in such a way to create a three dimensional letter figure. You can use this actually for specific styling elements in your custom envelope to make sure that people get really curious about your envelopes and their content. So if possible with your software, try out using these 3d type text effects.
5. Adding textures for special envelopes – Finally, if your envelope has a specific kind of design theme, especially the ones that use textures, then you should know that your text can also adapt some kind of texture. While it all depends on your theme, take note that you can add a texture effect just the same in text as with your other design elements. This can really be helpful hemming in the theme and the message of your envelopes. So make sure that you also try integrate this as a significant option for your custom envelope printing.
So what are you waiting for? Try experimenting now with your own custom envelopes. Make sure that you try out all these options to get the best possible attractive text for your envelope prints.
