It won’t be too time-consuming for you to check out how funky retro add-ons (and designs in general) have become recently.
There are top-class masters, releasing one vintage pack after another, each beating the summit of the key marketplaces. And I welcome you to go for it, too, starting with my basic and totally realizable tutorial.
Such bold, juicy text effects are strongly associated with American Style in my head. I think of diners, and good old motel signs. And everyone I know always wants something of the kind printed on their hoodies, notebooks. Or as a part of a website design. There are quite a lot of variants and for all of them vintage add-ons will be a natural addition.
Get out some of your professional perseverance and curiosity, cause they will help you a lot — not only to master the technique but, primarily, comprehend the method and produce a range of custom text effects, that will play with your personality and fit your projects. It’s actually more exciting than complicated.
Oh, and if you’ve found the passion for text add-ons, we’ve got a kind of a gift for you: a free set of 2 noir text effects for Photoshop, which are also imbued with retro vibes, but of a different genre.