Text is everywhere on the web, but that doesn’t mean it has to be boring. With just a little CSS, you can turn plain words into eye-catching elements that grab attention and make your design feel more alive and awesome.
In this post, I’ll share 10 awesome CSS text effects for making your project stand out.
You can view all the effects here
1.The Aurora
The Aurora effect by Ostylowany creates a beautiful, glowing aurora-like gradient that flows across the text, giving it a dreamy and futuristic look. This effect is perfect for adding a soft, ethereal glow to headings, banners, or any text that needs a visually striking appearance.
2. Split transition
The split transition effect by ParkHJ11, creates a sleek hover animation where the outer text splits apart, revealing a hidden inner text beneath.
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3. Outline offset
The outline offset effect adds a visually distinct outline around the text, creating a layered or floating appearance. By adjusting the offset distance, you can achieve a subtle shadow-like effect or a bold, separated outline that enhances readability and style. This effect works great for titles, hover interactions, and highlighting key content.
4. Dancing shadow
This dancing shadow effect by Emadamerho Nefe, creates a lively animation where the text's shadow shifts dynamically in opposite diagonal directions. The shadows smoothly alternate between two colors, expanding and contracting to give the illusion of movement
5. Folded Text
The folded text effect by Mandy Michael makes your text look like it’s been carefully creased and folded, almost like paper. With clever shading and gradients, each letter gets a cool 3D look, adding depth and texture. It’s a great way to make headlines stand out or give your design a unique, hands-on feel.
6. Reflect
The Reflect by Chokcoco creates a sleek mirror-like reflection beneath the text, giving it a polished and futuristic look. The reflection subtly fades out, mimicking the way light interacts with a glossy surface. This effect is perfect for adding a modern, high-tech feel to titles, logos, or banners.
7. Spring
Spring effect by Piccalilli, make the letters pop out like a spring on hover, creating a fun and bouncy animation. The effect gives text a lively, interactive feel, making it great for playful headlines, buttons, or any design element that needs a bit of extra energy and movement.
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8. Sliced
The Sliced text effect by Shireen Taj makes it look like a ninja has swiftly sliced through the text, splitting it into two sharp-edged parts. The pieces subtly shift apart, adding a dramatic and dynamic feel, as if the cut just happened.
9. Hey
The Hey text effect by Radu Bratan features a bold, animated shadow that continuously shifts, creating a dynamic popping effect. The shadow cycles through different positions, making the text appear as if it’s constantly bouncing or floating.
10. Fracture
The Fracture text effect by Mandy Michael gives the illusion that the text has been cleanly sliced through the middle, with the upper half smoothly sliding to the left in a continuous loop.
Those were some of cool effect's you can try in your next project to make your project stand out.
If you liked this, you can check the curated collection of text effects here
Top comments (19)
Great article. I love the all text effect😊. Hey can you help? I have one question. I found the image below on dribble but i am confuse that the light effect on website is made with css or its just background image?
Is it possible to make such an relastic light effect with css and how?
I am not sure but, It might be possible that it's an overlay image
All are awesome but the Aurora one is just 🤩, I'll definitely Integrated it in some way shape or form in my project.
Great work, keep it up
Glad you liked it :)
COOL😎MARK❤👍
Amazing effects!🔥
I love the Aurora text effect! Shadow hurts my eyes haha
Nice article . I liked all the effects . I will definitely try out in my next projects.
Awesome!
That an awsome inspiration that I have ever seen. I might use some of them.
Happy to hear you found it inspirational :)
I love the the Aurora effect👍
Great codes mate
Loved the aurora one 😍. Will definitely use it somewhere in my next project.