Creative Typography Tutorials in Illustrator

Adobe Illustrator is a powerful tool that you can create fluffy, vague, sparkling, gelatinous, glossy, glittery, retro and revolutionary effects with. Creating a particular text effect in Illustrator is not that difficult now; thanks to the availability of creative typography tutorial in illustrator that guide you through each step.

Here we have gathered a collection of around 50 amazingly helpful tutorials that let you create breathtaking typographic effects in Illustrator. Some of them also use Photoshop to give the text effect its fully refined look. Let’s have a look at this collection.

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Typography Tutorial in Illustrator

Create a Poster Theme Illustration in Illustrator

This following typography tutorial illustrator lets you create beautiful poster theme illustrations simply, using Adobe Illustrator.

How to Create a Neon Text Effect Using Adobe Illustrator

Create appealing and tempting neon text effects by using Gradient Mesh, 3D Modeling, Art Brushes and Transparency palette. Let’s begin!

How to Create Colorful Neon Text with Adobe Illustrator

This tutorial teaches you some quick tips on how to create a colorful neon text effect. In this tutorial, you will learn the use of thick font and the Round Any Corner Script to create letter shapes and other techniques to create neon text effect.

Creating a custom Font : Understanding the Dynamics of Blend Tool

This typography illustrator tutorial is designed to help you create a custom Font, while at the same time accepting the dynamics of the Blend Tool.

How to Create a Colorful, 3D Text Effect

This typography tutorial illustrator is shared here to let you learn the technique of creating some colorful and appealing 3D texts.

Create an Airport Time Table Type Effect

In this quick tutorial, you will learn to create an airport timetable text effect. Creating such an effect is ideal for websites, posters and even logos.

How to Create a 3D Sketch Text Effect

This tutorial lets you learn how you can play with the 3D options in Illustrator to create 3D letters while also transforming them into a sketch text. Add any color that you like as the transparency allows you to place it on any background.

Create a Jar Illustration and Splashy, Purple Text Effect

This tutorial walks you through creating a jar illustration with a splashy purple text effect. You will see how different layered shapes and opacities are used in this tutorial and how the paths and the Pathfinder tools are used to enhance the result and give your text dimension and style.

Create Colorful, Layered Paper Type in Illustrator

Let’s create some vividly colored illustrations with layered text and ribbons. Here, you will learn to use Illustrator effects expansively to optimize your work.

How To Create a Cool Chrome Text Effect in Illustrator

The following tutorial helps you get the skills required to create cool retro chrome text effects by using Illustrator. This tutorial teaches you all the steps from beginning to end.

How to Create a Retro Style Textured Logo

This tutorial helps you learn to create a retro vector seal logo by using Illustrator with Ryan Quintal. This extremely easy to follow tutorial lets you create an awesome final effect.

How to Create a Paper Style Alphabet using Illustrator 3D

With this, you will learn to create a paper style alphabet and the shadows of them by using 3D modeling. This tutorial is perfect for creating logo designs.

Create a Chalkboard Type Treatment

This tutorial lets you create amazing chalkboard type treatments by using some gradients, a bristle brush, and some freebies from Vector Mill.

Learn to Create a Variety of Script Lettering

This tutorial showcases three unique approaches to create different script lettering styles. The tutorial starts with a simple basic script and leads you to more advanced techniques.

How to Create an Entangled Lettering Illustration

Creating a perfect entangled lettering illustration is what you will learn in this tutorial. You can also learn casting shadows and highlighting through abstract color shapes.

Create a Variety of 3D Lettering Effects for Poster Design

This tutorial teaches you different techniques of creating simple 3D lettering effects in the context of poster design.

Create a Green Viscous Text Effect

This tutorial helps you learn the use of existing font and 3D tools of illustrator to add dimension and create a green viscous text effect.

How To Create a Simple Sticker Text Effect

This tutorial showcases the technique of using text and the Round Any Corner script to create a simple sticker effect. Such text effects can be used in graphics, including shapes and symbols.

Create a Furry Calligram in Illustrator

Here you will learn to create your own calligram by manipulating a typeface, rendering fur and by adding dog features and various details.

Learn to Create a Variety of Beveled Lettering

This tutorial is designed to teach you different techniques of creating beveled lettering styles. The tutorial starts with the least complex and moves on to the most polished and professional look.

Cool Typography with the Blend Tool in Illustrator

Here you will use Illustrator’s Blend tool first and then use Photoshop for some final retouches in order to create cool typography.

Create a Top Gun Badge on Illustrator

Here, you will see how to create a vector badge and then make it look more appealing by adding some features. Simple to execute.

Tron Legacy Tutorial

In this tutorial, you will use Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Photoshop and Cinema 4D. This is an interesting tutorial that helps you learn all three of these programs simultaneously.

Vintage Badge in Illustrator and Photoshop

In this tutorial you will see how to create a vintage badge by using Illustrator and Photoshop. Take a look!

Grungy 3D Text In Illustrator

Use Illustrator to create appealing grungy 3D text with some smart shadow techniques.

Create a Silky Ribbon Text Effect

This tutorial teaches you to use the Pen and Gradient tools in order to create a swirling ribbon text effect. You can also use this effect to create different shapes and scrolls.

Create a Mummy Text Effect

This guide helps you give your text some classic mummy treatment by using a few gradients and the Appearance panel.

Create a Polished Raised-Type Treatment

Learn to create a polished, lifted-type treatment by using the Appearance panel, some gradients and transforms. You can also apply the treatment to other fonts and vector elements as well.

Create a Reusable Retro Type Treatment

Here you will see how to create retro type treatments by using some powerful Illustrator features and texture effects, Warp effects, and some simple layering.

Create a Glossy Smooth Text Effect

This guide lets you discover how to create a glossy smooth text effect by using multiple fills and strokes with various blending modes and different opacity settings.

3D Golden Text Effect

This tutorial will be great for beginners who want to create professional 3D text effects in Adobe illustrator. Here, you will see how to create text using 3D extrude and the techniques to clean up the broken shapes and then apply glow to the 3D text.

Golden Text with Diamonds

This tutorial showcases the use of the appearance palette and scatter brushes to create this stylized text with diamonds. Several other useful techniques will also be taught in this tutorial that will help you in your future endeavors. So let’s get started!

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