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A quick way to add outline and highlights to texts / objects
Just a quick tutorial on how to create an outline/ highlight effect. I like to use this effect a lot for menu texts/ mock-ups as it's quick to create and it looks rather nice.
The key to this effect working/ looking good is the right font. Choose a bolder/ thicker font to allow the inset to work.
You can use the same workflow on any sort of object - not just fonts. Buttons, icons or bullet points look nice with the highlight and a little gradient fill added to them.
Enjoy playing around with this one. I would suggest trying multiple stroke objects with decreasing stroke width to get double or triple outlines.
And for all those Gimp users - it's not that hard to create this kind of effect either. It's a different approach as there is no outline/ stroke feature in gimp but by using selections and growing and shrinking those you can achieve a very similar effect.
Enjoy!
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