Long Hours of Design

Underline-y Goodness

Paragraph rules and underlines are highly under-appreciated.

Here’s a fun little underline technique for creating a tag exclaiming the newness of an item.

"New" Tag

"New" Tag

This is pretty simple.

1. Type “New” with a space before and a space after.
2. I’ve styled this with small caps and brought the size down a bit.
3. Now, we create an underline, staring with the space before NEW and ending with the space after. Make the “Weight” about the same size as the rest of the body text. Adjust the offset until it looks right.
   
   New Tag Underline Settings

   New Tag Underline Settings

   That’s it!