It sounds like you want text-shadow:
text-shadow: 1px 1px 1px #fff, -1px -1px 1px #000;
color: [background color of the container]
Basically you set a 1px shadow offset up and left one pixel, and then another offset down and right one pixel, with a colors that give you an inset or outset effect. This doesn’t work so well on a textured background as the text itself needs to be the same color as the background (transaprent lets the shadows show through).
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solved Embrossed Letterign style [duplicate]