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How can I duplicate this font?

by Mike Adams
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I realize the below is an image, but does anyone know how to duplicate the font seen below. It has a white outline and a drop shadow.


#duplicate #font
  • Profile picture of the author pluto1
    I think it needs some serious photoshop skills to duplicate the fonts in this image. You can also check to see if you can find the fonts at Free Fonts Download
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  • Profile picture of the author timpears
    There are a number of options out there to do the outlines and drop shadows. You can use a free tool to make graphics and put text into them with these type of options. I just downloaded it and have not used it as of yet, so I am no expert. But someone recomended it to me and it looked pretty good. You can get it for free at XHeader

    You didn't say if the text you found was text on a web site or a graphic of text, so I am not sure if this was what you were looking for. But this should do the job and get you what you need, I hope.
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  • Profile picture of the author malcasid
    Originally Posted by BlackBookProject View Post

    I realize the below is an image, but does anyone know how to duplicate the font seen below. It has a white outline and a drop shadow.
    HA, I was wondering the same thing myself. For the last few months I have been noticing that almost every major launch is using this font!

    I know they are using the same designers. Now, to just figure out the font so we don't have to hire them!
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  • Profile picture of the author sbucciarel
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    It's not the font you're liking ... it's the outline and drop shadow used on the font in Photoshop. You can do that with any font using Photoshop.
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  • Profile picture of the author Don Schenk
    It is very easy to do in Photoshop. Here are the steps...

    File - new - and create a new blank image to the size you want pixels x pixels and make it have a white background.

    Make a new Type layer on top of that and type out what you want to say in Times Roman - black type.

    Duplicate that type layer, change its color to white letters and move it under (behind) the black letters.

    Select the white letters layer, and go to edit - free transform. While holding down the shift key, drag a corner handle outward a little bit to make the white letters a little larger. Remember, the white letters are on a white background, you won't be able to see them.

    Add a drop shadow to the white letters.

    The white letters form the small white area around the black letters, and the white letters give you the drop shadow.

    You can then go to the black type layer and change the color of any words to red or blue or whatever.

    Flatten and save as a jpeg.


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    • Profile picture of the author tomw
      Originally Posted by Don Schenk View Post

      It is very easy to do in Photoshop. Here are the steps...

      File - new - and create a new blank image to the size you want pixels x pixels and make it have a white background.

      Make a new Type layer on top of that and type out what you want to say in Times Roman - black type.

      Duplicate that type layer, change its color to white letters and move it under (behind) the black letters.

      Select the white letters layer, and go to edit - free transform. While holding down the shift key, drag a corner handle outward a little bit to make the white letters a little larger. Remember, the white letters are on a white background, you won't be able to see them.

      Add a drop shadow to the white letters.

      The white letters form the small white area around the black letters, and the white letters give you the drop shadow.

      You can then go to the black type layer and change the color of any words to red or blue or whatever.

      Flatten and save as a jpeg.


      :-Don
      Or you could just type the headline in Photoshop with the type tool. Double click the type symbol in the layers pallet and from the menu that appears select "stroke" from the myriad of options in the left hand "styles" column and choose the width and colour of the stroke. Then select "drop shadow" again in the style column and fiddle till your hearts content.

      Doing it this way has the benefit of all three elements being "attached" to each other so there are no pesky transparency issues...i.e. no matter what is below the type (its "attached" stroke and drop) the shadow will render properly when set against for example an image in Photoshop. And if the background is deleted and the file saved as a png with transparency, it will render transparently in most recent browsers.

      Little tip for you there, Don.



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  • Profile picture of the author Don Schenk
    Gotta' love Photoshop - there are at least 3 ways to do everything. :-)

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