3D Shadow effect for text

[Rik]

This is for you Rik and...

Thanks very much indeed.

I have tried, on a few occasions, to try and draw in Illustrator.
I have tried a few tutorials and simply find the Pen Tool a bit too difficult.
That's why your post interested me. I will have a another go.

Now. If Illustrator had the Shape Tool, then I would have actually done something in Illustrator, by now!
I'm not running the Illustrator tools down, by the way. It's just my lack of use/practice.

[avalon]

http://www.fontpark.net/en/font/griffon-/ Not that close avalon.

Whoa!! Not close? Was way off!! Shadow on wrong side, condensed...LOL!!

[gwpriester]

Well also, Griffon is a font in which the shadow was part of the original font design. And it is very condensed.

But, the same idea. Kind of.

[DigitalJeweler]

It's possible the sign making software "added" the 3D shadow effect. That could have been just Maximus font with that feature. We likely just have to do it manually.