Learn how to use Google's Font API to install and use nice-looking web fonts in your web pages, in just a few minutes.

Earlier this morning, I needed to create vertical text for a project I’m working on. After trying out a couple ideas, I took to Twitter to find what sorts of thoughts our followers had on the subject.

There are various ways through which we can enhance the look of our text. One of these, is giving emboss effect to our text as it gives depth to it.

Another effect that can be given to the text to make it look more decorative and prominent is the background Text-Transition property which has been explained in this tutorial.

An interesting way by which a fine visual representation of text can be attained is the masking of the text. This tutorial explains how we can obtain this effect.

With the help of this tutorial, we can actually give our text, different types of effects (transition effects specifically), which does contribute to the overall look and feel of the page.

Filter efftect supported by Internet explorer can be used to create glow effect.

CSS 3 tutorial to embed custom fonts in web pages

CSS 3 tutorial to provide shadow to text

Thanks to text shadows, outlines, transitions, and even text gradients, we can now create cool typography that you’d swear had to be made with a program like Photoshop.