Golden Text Effect in Adobe Illustrator

If you are a regular visitor of this website then you must know that we had created Golden Logo and Golden Gradient earlier.

Today we will create Golden Text Effect in Adobe Illustrator with the help of Type Tool, Gradient Tool, Appearance Panel and Transform Effect.

Launch Adobe Illustrator and create a new document. Now follow the below steps–

Step 1

Select the Type Tool and type your text on the artboard.

Step 2

In this step, we will fill our text with a gradient.

To learn how to fill the text with the gradient in Adobe Illustrator

Select the text and turn off its fill color. Then open the Appearance Panel (Shift + F6) and click on Add New Fill.

Now select the new fill layer in the Appearance Panel and fill it with a gradient. You can use preset gradients or create a new one.

Step 3

Again click on Add New Fill in the AppearancePanel and change the fill color to #f9d232.

Let this layer be selected and click on Add New Effectin the Appearance Panel. Place the cursor on Distort and Transform and then select Transform.

In the Transform Effect dialogue box, put a checkmark on Preview and then set Horizontal and Vertical Moveat -2 pt. Check the preview and then click OK.

Step 4

Again add a New Fill layer in the AppearancePanel and fill it will another gradient.

Now apply Transform Effect to this layer and in the Transform Effect dialogue box, first put a checkmark on Preview and then increase the number of copies. Also, set the Horizontal and Vertical Move to -1 pt.