Inspirational Text Effects

By Steven Snell | Published January 19th, 2009 in Inspiration

If you browse through the portfolios of graphic designers, or through sites like deviantART, Flickr, and the Behance Network, you’ll certainly find some very interesting and inspiring text effects. This collection features a variety of different text effects from various designers.

For more text effect and typography inspiration, see our new gallery site TypeInspire.

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If you love typography and/or text effects, you may also be interested in the Typography Inspiration Showcase and 50 Essential Photoshop Text Tutorials.


18 Comments
  1. Nokadota on January 20th, 2009

    Whoah, I think I’ll do all of the tuts.

  2. Nokadota on January 20th, 2009

    LOL, if they *were* tuts I mean. Very inspiring post.

  3. Brandon Cox on January 20th, 2009

    Agree with Nokadota, awesome stuff! It’s actually a pretty big challenge to add so much to a font and pull it off well.

  4. Youandigraphics on January 20th, 2009

    Really nice effects. I particularly like the fourth one from the top.

  5. Raul on January 20th, 2009

    typographic dope, alright!

  6. Craig - Abrishca Digital Media on January 20th, 2009

    There’s some great artwork in there, seems like swirls and 3d are in at the moment.

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  8. Timothy on January 20th, 2009

    Very good list. Thanks!

  9. Amber Weinberg on January 21st, 2009

    Great design work, definitely not easy to reproduce :)

  10. Designer on January 21st, 2009

    lovely collection

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  13. Jamie Yates on February 17th, 2009

    Inspiring stuff. I love checking out stuff like this then trying to replicate the effect in Photoshop. Good way to learn :)

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  15. jak on August 9th, 2009

    I ‘m person interested in digital paintings. simply great. ^_^

  16. ditatompel on August 1st, 2010

    “INK AND WATER DON’T MIX”
    LOL…

  17. lv bags on August 9th, 2010

    I love checking out stuff like this then trying to replicate the effect in Photoshop. Good way to learn