Plenty of logos feature type that surrounds an object. To achieve this effect, it is placed on a circle and this is easy to do using a vector drawing program such as Illustrator.
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Gradient Mask in Illustrator
One of the handy little things you can do with your vector graphics in Illustrator, is create areas of transparency, just like in Photoshop, using a mask. Illustrator lets you add opacity masks where you can use one shape to mask another. If the masking shape is filled with a gradient, white to black, the white areas will be 100% opaque and the black areas will be 100% transparent. All the shades in between will give you the smooth fade effect.
CMYK Gradients in InDesign
Creating a nice, smooth gradient in RGB is easy – with plenty of colours in the range getting a subtle transition from one colour to the next requires little in the way of thinking. With CMYK for print however, things are quite another matter…
