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An impossible love for movies and retro(or these two combined) has grown my interest in text styles. You can be designing any project, and nothing can boost the process and set accents better than a robust text style.
Inspired by immortal cinematography, design trends, and movements, these effects perform as a great final touch and save loads of your time. I am not sure if it’s always possible to find the matching typeface, but there are still loads of premium and free effects for an explosion-like impact — like the one for the Stranger Things did.
You don’t have to be a proficient artist to create a finest text design for your project. Every item contains Smart Objects, so you can apply an artistic effect to your text in a few seconds and instantly skyrocket the visual interest. All in all, intuitive use is the hugest advantage (after engaging look, of course) of a text effect — and it’s the primary reason why there are so many of them in everyone’s toolbox.
Our Team’s Top Pick
Fancy Gold Text Effect
Have your company’s name written in a fanciful way with this PSD text effect for Photoshop. It imitates gold of the best quality, leaving no room for doubt about its realism. Write any inscription with golden letters! But it’s not only the text effect that makes it look fantastic but the suitable font choice, so take your time checking out which one to use. Take a moment to appreciate the lighting, adding a more genuine look to the scene or logo.
Now you can make your typography look gorgeous with an expansive collection of Adobe Photoshop text effects. They are delivered by the major freebie blogs like Pixelbuddha, Graphic Burger or Pixeden, and the best thing about them is that you don’t have to pay for the resources. We have also featured the most precious premium Photoshop styles! We have hundreds of text add-ons in our toolbox, however, only the creams of the crop have reached this selection — and we’re sure you’ll love them as much as we do!
Neon Layer Styles
Do you feel that with this retro obsession taking over the world, more and more people feel the urge for some cosmic or underground vibe? If your answer is “yes”, then you’ll love this set of Photoshop text styles. It includes 70+ layer styles with over sixty color variations, bonus backgrounds, and a detailed instruction file — a whole package of resources to delve into neon typography and carry out something extraordinary.
Neon Lighting Text Effect — Photoshop
Playful Letters Text Effect
Get excited about the bubble cartoon lettering, bringing party vibes and tons of fun to your graphic design projects! Workflow can become even more engaging when it’s supplied with a goofy PSD text effect you’re looking at right now. That’s the beauty of this text effect!
Cartoon Text Effect
Ghost Letters Text Effect
This free PSD text effect could be an irreplaceable tool for making themed product covers, book designs, website animated blocks, and all other purposes of use you can come up with. No strings attached to the certain topic or sphere, only you and your perception of beauty. Load the text into a Smart Layer, save the changes and become a master of typography magic!
Lava Light Logo Mockup
Color Distortion Text Effect
If you’re tired of being puzzled all the time, this color distortion PSD text effect is for you! Type the required text and choose out of 4 color scheme gradients. It might happen that even this trick won’t meet your expectations about the result, well, we’ve got you covered: use the white distorted lettering and play a minimalism card.
Retro Text Effects
Free Color Leak Text Effect
Vintage Comics PSD Text Effects
Noir Retro Photoshop Text Effects — Photoshop
Let every piece you create be ultimately attractive and imbue your vintage typography with genuine noir ambiance. Indeed, these two free Photoshop effects are so engaging and professionally crafted that a choosy creative will not let them pass by. And with the Smart Layers, the customization process becomes so simple as smooth that a powerful poster, card, or anything is not a problem at all.
Japan Text Effect
Page Flip Text Effect
The Page Flip effect is a text PSD template, which contains 4 color solutions for flipping pages set up. Whenever you hover over the text on your slide, it will reveal what’s written beneath like magic! Take your showcase to the next level by adding this text effect PSD template.
Fabric Kingdom Photoshop Edition
3D 80s Text Effects Vol.2
Find yourself in the glossy and fizzy ambiance of the 80s once you open these cool text effects in Photoshop! The pack provides 10 files, each with its unique mood and vibe — and there is no doubt you will find the one to fit your today’s text design. You don’t need to install anything in Photoshop, simply open the files and replace the text in the Smart Object.
Crashed Glitch Text Effects
Papercut Text Effect
Trust the work to quality styles and you’re free of accidents like these forever! Prepare playful headlines, website banners, posters and flyer designs in a couple of clicks! All you need is this text effect PSD template and its infinite creative power, launched by your unique artistic vision.
Vivid 80s Retro Text Effects
Melting Text Effect
Melting PSD text effect will have your audience in awe with its creative and unique designs. With so many colors, you can easily create the perfect visual for any project. Whether you’re looking for a bright and colorful neon look or something more subtle, this text layer style has you covered.
Data Glitch — Free Text Effect
Circus Text Styles
These one-click effects are perfect for drawing the eye towards your flyers, greetings cards, and books. You can also use them for matching themed projects & events — festivals, theaters, club nights, vintage fairs, craft events, and much more. Graphic styles allow you to change the look of an object quickly.
Doppler Distortion Text Effect
Retro Photoshop Text Effects Pack
The pack includes 10 PSD files with one retro text effect each. They are high-resolution, so you’ll be able to use your creations both for web and print projects. Pick up the images as is, or hide the background and import the chosen PSD text effect into your other design projects such as posters, flyers, social media posts, YouTube banners, and website headers.
Old Comics Text Effects
Lightbox Text Effect
Neon stylistic doesn’t always imply something over-vibrant and colorful. With this Photoshop text effect PSD template, you will be able to give any text or shapes soft neon lights appearance and make them stand out on a dark background. The PSD asset contains smart layers to make it easy to use and modify — ever for a beginner who have never worked with PSD text effect before.
Neon Sign Photoshop Effect
Stranger Things Font Effect
Grab your Eggo waffles, turn on the Christmas lights on the wall, and give up to a pleasant nostalgia for four seasons of ‘Stranger Things’ with our text style! Be creative and make your fan version of the intro, where you can call the show your own way. This Photoshop text style will surely set the mysterious mood!
Retro Wood Text Styles
Sandwich 3D Text Effect
Turn your images into an ultra-modern composition with a 3D Photoshop text effect! It’s a great tool to create something brand-new from your copyright — or add depth and a sandwich texture to your plain piece of copy. All you need to do is type your text in the smart layers and save the changes: that’s how easy it is to work with this text effect PSD template.
Sliced Letters Text Effect
Pro 3D Text Mockup PSD
The aesthetic of 3D typography can push any design work to a new level. Glow, volume, textures — these are things that do the job and make up the best of these 3D font effects. The pack includes four PSD files displaying four different styles — and you’ll find it super easy to apply them to your copy or make any necessary edits.
American Vintage Text Effects
PSD Retro Text Effect
Feel the smell of hot coffee and pancakes of Ameriсan diners? These come along with this absolutely striking, overwhelming, bold 3D PSD text effect made to shine through at all sizes. The assets do not require special experience — and as you’ve got them in a click, be sure to edit and customize them in a click, too!
Medieval Gold Text Effect
Grand Motel Text Effect
Here’s a retro Photoshop text effect PSD template inspired by the fantastic vintage motel sign designs. Type your own text and create a striking typography piece in just one click — and make sure that your cards, invitations, posters, gift paper (or any other kind of message) are perceived not only by the eye but by the heart!
Foil Balloon Text Effects
PSD Candy Cane Text Effect
Have Christmas anytime you want with this free Photoshop text effect PSD! This themed item represents a neat candy cane texture that will transform any text into a sweet looking Christmas treat and bring you festive mood wherever you are. Feel free to use the PSD text effect to fill your decor, posters, prints, and greeting cards with joy!
Fade Out 3D Text Effect
Stainless Steel Text Effect
Forge the iron lettering for your projects with only one PSD file at hand! We’ve prepared the simple in use metallic text effect PSD template, able to polish your text until it shines. The text won’t get scratched or corroded only praised and loved by the audience! Insert the phrase that needs to be converted to iron, save it and watch the blacksmith craft in action.
Rose Photoshop Text Effect
Back to the 80s Retro Text Effects
Think of your favorite video games, neon leggings, disco tunes, and design trends living their resurrection now. So, words apart, welcome Back to the 80s effects — a pack which features Hotline Miami, Kung Fury, Drive, Tron, and many more!
PSD Wall Poster Text Effect
Anaglyphic Stereo Text Effect
Let the crazy colors dance their jaunty dances in your lettering, striking everyone with unbelievable combinations! Comprise several colors in one anaglyph PSD text effect to increase its aesthetics and add there some broken VHS vibes. Open the PSD file, type your text, choose the color solution out of 3 premade color schemes, hit save and watch the characters getting distorted instantly.
Authentic Vintage Text Effects
80s Retro Font Style — Photoshop
Create an iconic, 80’s inspired piece of typography or logo with this chrome PSD text effect inspired by some of the most popular tutorials on old-school sign design. To apply this retro effect to your text or vector shape, just edit the smart layers in Photoshop or Adobe Illustrator, and you’ll be done in no time — just feel free to breathe the spirit of your project into the text effect PSD template!
Are you already craving for more? The teams below have picked their teeth on text add-ons, so you’re meant to fall for their incredible text styles and the best text effects designers ever used or created. We’ve embraced both grunge to vintage-styled techniques, so there is no way out but to give your heart to one of these great projects. There is also plenty of industrial, tech, glitch, artistic, and even 3D text effects, so hold on, as the selection is going to be super mind-blowing!
80s Metal Photoshop Text Effect
Make any text and font have an 80’s heavy metal-inspired Photoshop effect to it with one double click. The pack includes hi-res, layered PSD file with Smart Objects for the text, layer effects, free concrete texture, and a video tutorial for added extras. It will show how to add shadows around the extrusion and light glares around the edges to really make your design pop!
Cinematic 3D Text Effect
Concrete Wall Text Effect
Just like with regular art, your have different materials and techniques at your disposal! Quickly achieve a flawless image with this concrete PSD text effect for Photoshop. All you have to do it to paste your text inside the Smart Layer and save it. Such typography will be an excellent solution for branding, advertising, logotypes. Or you can take some risks and use it as an element of your decor or stationery prints.
PSD Frames Text Effect
Cinematic Title Text Effect
Movie add-ons seem to be one of the most popular among designers. And that’s quite obvious, as they always look like a piece of art! Add this high-detail cinematic text effect PSD template to your logos or any other texts to get a dramatic look right from your favorite movies. All you have to do is to type the desired text inside the Smart Layer, and your work is done.
Patchwork Effect Photoshop Toolkit
Digital Glitch Text Effect
Have this free digital glitch PSD text effect for Photoshop in your collection! You probably have a glitch photo effect, so don’t you think you also need something for your texts? The effect may be used to highlight the tech vibe of your header or logo. To create one, you can easily add your copy using the top Smart Layer. The PSD template also contains two versions of the effect, and you can easily customize it to your needs.
Chrome Photoshop Text Effects
Sketch PSD Text Effect
To do graphic art, you sometimes need only a few handy text templates — and a matching font! This PSD template uses Smart Objects to create a realistic sketch effect for any text or shape. The file includes three different text effect styles with changeable colors. Suitable for headings, titles, logotypes, packaging designs, branding ideas — in other words, anywhere a sketch text effect PSD file would look striking!
Underwater Text Effect
80s Style Text Effect
Neon gloss won’t make it worse! Probably, these are the best effects you might have to bring the 80s back to your artworks. Realistic, sleek, and unique — just what you need to create your own iteration of some retro music album, or make a vintage poster to remind you of the roaring 80s!
Realistic Gold Text Effect for Photoshop
3D 80s Text Effect
Are you ready to take back to the 80s, The period of mind-blowing discos, vivid colors, video games? So, please welcome a masterly created 3D 80s Text Effect. If you want to travel in time, just type your text and apply this text effect PSD — then sit back and relax, your beautiful 80s text is ready. This free text effect works best on flyers, logos, movie titles, Facebook timelines.
Realistic Gold Text Effect for Photoshop
Vintage Photoshop Layer Styles
These 16 effects were inspired by ragged edges of old-style typography and its halftone printing manner. Implementing such romanticism of the 30s typography is a piece of cake — you open smart object, place lettering, then apply a graphic style! Time-traveling to the past of modern typography is possible with less than 15 seconds.
Back to the Future Text Effect
Retro Text Effect
Oh, that charm of a vintage texture with its retro worn effect! If your heart belongs to it forever, then this PSD text effect is in good hands and ingenious mind. Create distinctive vintage typography with its help — besides, it’s so simple! You can use the Smart Layer to apply the bold 3D effect to any text or shape.
Bold 3D Text Effect
Retrica Vintage Text Effects Pack
Retrica pack delivers Photoshop text styles imbued with nostalgia and fire — a rare emotional alliance to burn bright your designs, including various banners, cards, stationery, clothing, logos, illustrations, or, for example, packaging. All in all, all your ideas are welcome!
Frozen Light Logo Mockup
Broken Glass Text & Logo Effect
An image doesn’t have to be super neat, polished, and clean to sustain visual interest. In fact, you can do the opposite: place a piece of cloudy broken class above your text, logotype, or symbol and enjoy the image that sparks your design vision. All that’s needed is this text effect PSD template!
Candy Vector Text Effect
Free Metal 3D Text Effect Photoshop
A realistic metal font style for Photoshop is what you need to upgrade your text design and give it a sci-fi look in just a few clicks. The freebie contains the Smart Object layer, where you can add your creatives, and is all about futuristic vibrancy. Highly recommend adding it to your collection.
Forged Steel Text Effect
Holographic Chrome Effect
Embrace the spirit of retro album covers or epic space art by unpacking this text effect PSD template into a Photoshop working area. First, you need to pick one of 3 chrome effects, then adjust the background ‘cause it’s totally changeable. Customize the image by turning the stars on or off.
Blurred Spray Stencils Effect
Cyber Glitching Effect
Badass intro titles for a new video, cyber-themed social media posts, or a magnificent branding piece — any typography effects are realizable now! Take a new challenge bravely, as this Photoshop font effect is here to cover your ideas. The file operates equally well with text and logotypes, bursting them into a myriad of glitches, mismatches, and little artistic distortions.
