How do you make your 'shiny' codes?

[Chibichan]

I'm not sure if this is the right forum - if it's not, feel free to move this topic somewhere else, mods!

There's something I've always been curious about. You see, I have a somewhat weird obsession with fanlisting codes - I always look at other people's codes and wonder how they make theirs so shiny and beautiful, and I'm always looking for new ways to make my codes look lovely. So I was wondering, how do you make your codes? Which 'method' do you use to make them look so shiny? :wub:

I thought I'd ask here, so everyone, even people new to fanlistings and such, can get an idea on how to make some lovely codes for their fanlistings!

[Eden]

Hm, I make mine different ways. I have a few set of templates I use and depending on how much effort and time I want to put into a fanlisting button, I'll open the corresponding template.

I have rounded corners, stamp-like borders, some with fancy text, some with basic text, and a few other experimental designs.

I tend to go for basic buttons (square, 1 or 2 borders, text) and (I find that more people tend to make their own buttons if mine are too fancy) so I like to keep them simple most of the time.

I use my own pixel fonts that I've created because, while there are nice fonts out there, some of the letters  weren't up to my standards. I created one for myself with all the letters the way I wanted them to be so my buttons can have nice readable letters.