#i love playing around with typography so these are some of my go-tos to making the typography look the way i want

[miwtual]

kai can you help me with text gradient maps like in this set? maybe share some of your favorite settings? i feel like i can never make them the color i want :(

https://www.tumblr.com/heroeddiemunson/708432402148737024/lgbtqcreators-event-09-dynamics-love

hiiii miles yes of course!!

i went and double checked what settings i used in that set specifically, and i used the color setting, which is honestly my favorite setting to use for my typography like that. i also like using hard light, vivid light, multiply, and (especially if im using a darker color) screen. playing around with these different modes usually helps me choose one i think looks best! it also helps to make the text ur using to be fairly large so that you can see the colors too, at least in my experience.

i also like to take the color i want the text to be and make it brighter so the blending mode doesn't mess with the color of the text too much. for example, in that set you linked, the yellow i used for the "sun" text is a little closer to the default hex code that things like photopea and photoshop use (just a little more to the orange side of the color wheel). once i used the "color" setting, it darkened that color down and made it match with the set <3

there is also this tutorial by @anya-chalotra that i have used as my sort of basis for this type of typography (and godbless ava because she made this whole type of typography make sense to my tiny pea brain). two other tutorials i can think of are this one by @usermeggy and this one by @hiphiphelly :)