This text effect creates types in their shiny metallic gold appearance with dark tarnish patterns. This style offers four variations of the rusty patterns and looks best on dark background which enhances the gold color of the text. You can use this style for your text logo design, web page header design, menu navigation, or use it as a base to add more embellishments later. This style is a modified Script-fu version of the standard Sota Chrome style available in the open source GIMP (GNU Image Manipulation Program).

You can specify different gold patterns with dark brown spot reflections. The rendered text can be placed on either a plain color or another background pattern. With many combinations of font choices, pattern or gradient backgrounds, this single effect is very flexible to give your design unlimited potential.

What gives the text its three- dimensional depth appearance is the careful placement of the drop shadow. Here you can choose the drop shadow color, size, and distance from its source object to simulate the location of the light source. The larger the drop shadow size, the blurrier its appearance is.

1. Enter your text to render
(up to 24 characters)


2. Font size   
(default 70 pixels)

3. Typeface: Arial Black


4. Padding   
(default 20 pixels)

5. Drop Shadow
Distance
Size
Angle
Color
Click to generate the gold text effect with your current choice of parameters. Your requested image is constructed in a separate window. The generated image will be automatically removed from the server after approximately one hour. Right click on the generated image and choose "Save Picture As..." or "Save Image As..." to download to your computer.

The following illustration shows a short text string in the default gold color pattern. The gold text effect engine behind this page can produce a text pattern on a plain color background, or plain color text on a background pattern, or both.

Please be aware that this is a preview window to give you a quick idea of what the final image would look like. Certain parameters may not be present in the preview screen such as the typeface and font size. Click the eyedropper tool below to choose your appropriate background color or gold hue.