Dark Souls 3D text effect
Medieval-flavoured lettering reads DARK over SOULS in gold with charcoal sides and orange accents. The finish is matte and rough rather than shiny, with only a soft glow, and a spotlight pools in the centre of a near-black background like a bonfire in a cave.
Use it for grim fantasy boss-fight thumbnails, challenge run titles, tabletop dungeon covers or a gloomy playlist header. In the Studio, change the words, swap the font, warm or cool the gold, lengthen the depth, and fade the glow or spotlight to taste.
About this effect
Dark Souls is a Premium games 3D text effect set in Almendra. Open it in the Studio, type your own words and the style carries over.
Everything can be changed afterwards: font, colours, material and lighting. Export a PNG up to 4K with a transparent or solid background for thumbnails, posters, logos and social posts; see plans for export limits, or browse all 3D text effects.
Want the exact fonts, colour codes and values? See the technical specification.
Technical specification
These are the specialised specifications of the Dark Souls 3D text effect: the exact font, colour codes, surface values, geometry and lighting it is built from. Every value is editable after you open it in the Studio.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Typography | |
| Font | Almendra |
| Letter spacing | 0.02 |
| Line height | 0.95 |
| Material and surface | |
| Material | Matte |
| Face metalness | 0.4 |
| Face roughness | 0.65 |
| Side metalness | 0.34 |
| Side roughness | 0.8 |
| Colour palette | |
| Face colour | #BFB7A6 RGB 191, 183, 166 |
| Side colour | #1E1C18 RGB 30, 28, 24 |
| Accent colour | #FFB347 RGB 255, 179, 71 |
| Background top | #16130F RGB 22, 19, 15 |
| Background bottom | #020202 RGB 2, 2, 2 |
| Extrusion and bevel | |
| Extrusion depth | 0.34 |
| Bevel thickness | 0.034 |
| Bevel size | 0.024 |
| Bevel segments | 4 |
| Lighting and scene | |
| Background | Spotlight |
| Glow | 0.42 |
| Bloom | 0.4 |
| Floor reflection | 0.38 |
| Shadow | 0.6 |
| Exposure | 0.93 |
| Environment light | 0.9 |
| Camera | |
| Camera | Hero view |