PARTY!

Watch it being adjusted

How it works

Every letter is transformed on its own, in reading order: scaled and rotated about its centre, sheared about the baseline, then shifted. Each amount is a maximum; with Random on, a seeded value between minus and plus that amount is drawn per letter, so the same seed gives the same party on any machine. With Random off, shift and rotate alternate sign and scale and shear are uniform. Auto space slides each transformed letter until it just touches the letters before it, so the word tightens like hand-set type. Because this runs before every other effect, the 3D walls, strokes and shadows follow the partied letters.

What you can adjust

Drag a slider to see what each control does to the type.

• Shiftframe 1 of 5
  /img/effects/party/shift/1.png
  Shift0–200 pt, default 6, with Random
  1 / 5
• Rotateframe 1 of 5
  /img/effects/party/rotate/1.png
  Rotate0–180°, default 8, with Random
  1 / 5
• Scaleframe 1 of 5
  /img/effects/party/scale/1.png
  Scale0–100%, default 10, with Random
  1 / 5
• Shearframe 1 of 5
  /img/effects/party/shear/1.png
  Shear0–80°, default 8, with Random
  1 / 5
• Overlapframe 1 of 5
  /img/effects/party/overlap/1.png
  Overlap−100 to 100% of the text height
  1 / 5
• Auto spaceframe 1 of 2
  /img/effects/party/auto-space/1.png
  Auto spaceon/off, nests each letter against the ones before it
  1 / 2
• RanDoM cApsframe 1 of 2
  /img/effects/party/random-caps/1.png
  RanDoM cApson/off
  1 / 2
• Spread / 3D depth ±frame 1 of 5
  /img/effects/party/spread-3d-depth/1.png
  Spread / 3D depth ±0–180° (default 90) and 0–50%: per-letter variation of the 3D direction and depth, with Match 3D and Strength
  1 / 5
• Colorize!frame 1 of 2
  /img/effects/party/colorize/1.png
  Colorize!on by default, with a Theme: Kids party!, Neon night, Sunset, Circus, Pastel, Retro pop, Custom, three colours, and Walls match face
  1 / 2
• Party hopframe 1 of 5
  /img/effects/party/party-hop/1.png
  Party hopnew seed
  1 / 5

Still live text

Party! is applied as an Illustrator live effect, so the text stays editable. Change the word, the font, or any slider afterwards, and save the result as a Graphic Style to reuse it.