Free CU Retro Vintage Layer Styles Fonts

by daan on September 11, 2011

Free CU Retro Vintage Layer Styles and Fonts to Use Them With

I’m working on a poster and have been playing around with some blending options with photoshop. Some folks may find the layer styles useful, so I figured they were worth a share. The textures used to make the patterns are a new freebie from FudgeGraphics, and the free fonts follow the vintage retro text effects preview. Keep in mind that these files are a “sandbox” of sorts and in rough draft stage. I’m sure that some will still appreciate them.

They have a wood type, stamped, faded, worn out grunge sort of feel to them. I’ll likely make some different patterns too, as this was my first try.

These styles are for very very large 300 DPI image with large text. I didn’t have time to package them up in a smaller styles version. If you scale the layer styles the pattern doesn’t look the same. You may have to change the stroke from inner to outer and the drop shadow size as well.

The patterns are packaged up separately if you want to play around with those too. There is a darker set that I haven’t had a chance to package up as styles. The first set came out a little lighter than I wanted to, so the darker set of patterns can be switched out and have greater flexibility with opacity. Feel free to test them out.

free vintage letterpress photoshop layer styles block type

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While writing “Let’s go to the hoedown with Matilde Sketch & Legion Slab Typeface”, it reminded me of the story “I’m comic sans, Asshole“. Some of you may get a good laugh from this. ;) This file contains 2 large PSD