Adobe Illustrator provides designers with an excellent opportunity for creating amazing effects with text. This post features 30 of the best tutorials on the subject. While there are more tutorials available for working with text in Photoshop, I think you’ll see from this selection that there is plenty to be learned for text effects in Illustrator.

Learn the basic with the free photoshop tutorial and be creative with this text effect tutorial.

Blueprint-Style Text in Adobe Illustrator

Bling Bling Text Effect

Creating an Environmentally Friendly Green Type Treatment

Ornate Lettering Process

Ornate Lettering

Create a Swirly Type Treatment

How to Create a Trendy Retro Type Treatment

Gradient Strokes

Adding Gradients to Text

Distressed Text with Live Trace

Let’s Make a Playful Yet Robust 3D Letter Design

Create a Cool Water Effect

Tug and Twirl Text in Illustrator

Grunge Effect, How to Give it to Your Text

Create a Vibrant 3D Pixel Type Treatment

Quickly Add Grunge to Text

Offset Path on Text in Illustrator

3 Ways to Apply a Line Pattern Effect on Text in Illustrator

Wrapping Text Around an Image in Illustrator

Old School Type – Line Gradients

Type on a Path Options

Dynamic Burberry Text

Beveled Text without Filters or Effects

Stitched Text Effect

Better Titles in Illustrator

Multiple Strokes on Type

3D Text with Effects

Create Fun, Eye Catching Text with Adobe Illustrator

Text Warping with Envelope Distortion

Making Distressed Type with Adobe Illustrator