: How to achieve this business card look? you all! I am trying to achieve this kind of look for the text in a business card but I am kind of a self-taught pseudo-designer. Can it be done

@Nimeshi706

I think what you are looking at there is a visual of some kind of emboss and/or varnish, but if you want to create the same general impression using just ink then that should be quite straightforward...


Create a gradient for the background that runs from about 60% black
to about 80% black.
Place your required text in the centre and
convert it to paths.
Create a second gradient for the text which
goes from 100% black to about 60% black in the centre and then back
to 100% black.
Play around with the tint values, angles, etc of the gradients until you like how it looks.

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