Create a Sleek Pressed Letter Design

Pressed lettering is showing up more and more these days in web design. Like any other trend, you have to be careful not to over use it. Already you can recognize those people that are doing it well and those that are not. Recently, I read a post at Smashing Magazine that highlighted pressed lettering as one of the Web Design Trends for 2009.

All this got me to thinking about how to create such an effect. Turns out, it is rather simple. This tutorial will layout the steps to design pressed lettering so you can use this effect on your next project. So here we go!

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