Beginning and Enders
- Must be Two seperate words upper and lower case using a San Serif Font (Without Serif)
- Both Words start with Capitol Letters
- Make sure the type is selected, In the Type menue, create outlines
- Ungroup the letters.
- Change height of the two first letters, larger than normal, but the same size as each other.
- Group all the letters.
- Offset path to create outline.
- Before you click anywhere, move the outline off the lettering.
- Ungroup the outline from the letters.
- Using pathfinder, merge the outline.
- Fill and outline the created shape.
- Create two copies of this with no outline, fill one with dark grey and one with light grey and offset them.
- Using the blend tool, create a faded drop shadow
- Make sure they are in the correct order (Layers Menue) so the shadow appears behind the lettering.
Follow the example: