Writing – Logos and Stationery – An Elegant Font Effect with MS Word
Let’s say you’d like to impress your clients or organization with a fancy logo or header, but you don’t have the funds to pay a qualified graphic designer to do it for you.
Here’s a second best solution that can save you hundreds of dollars. All you need is your Microsoft Word.
In MS Word, type your title, say, “Acme”.
Increase the font size to at least 36 or 72.
Select your title. Select Format > Font on your main menu to display the Font dialog.
Select the following settings:
Font: I like Trebuchet and Bauhaus, but I experiment with different fonts.
Color: White (Assuming you are using white paper. This effect works best if the font color is the same as the paper.)
Effect – Engraving.
Click OK and you’ll get a modern looking logo or header.
Spacing (on the Character Spacing tab): Expanded by at least 10%
Experiment with the other settings on the other tabs of the Font dialog and see what happens.
If you’re designing stationery, avoid the number one mistake most non-designers make: avoid centering everything.
I don’t know who invented the notion that centered text is the easiest to read, but it’s not. The natural rhythm of the human eye is to scan a page from top left to bottom right. So wrapping all the text to the left would be perfectly fine.
There are quite a few professional graphics creation and page layout programs out there, such as Adobe Illustrator and Adobe InDesign. But why spend extra money when you have great free graphics tools already built right into your MS Word?
