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CSS Text Effect Generator

A gallery of ready CSS text effects -- neon, 3D extrude, outline, fire, chrome, gradient fill, glitch, letterpress and more -- with editable text, font and colour controls, per-effect sliders, optional animation, and full CSS export (text-shadow, -webkit-text-stroke, background-clip and all).

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What this tool does

A gallery of 16 named text effects, each built from a real, distinct combination of CSS properties — not the same text-shadow recipe recoloured 16 times — with editable text, font, and per-effect controls, and complete CSS export including whatever the effect actually needs beyond a shadow.

The effect library

Neon (a flickering multi-layer glow), Glow soft, Outline and Outline + fill (using -webkit-text-stroke), 3D extrude (a stepped shadow stack), Long shadow, Retro 80s, Fire (a warm glow gradient), Chrome and Gold foil (metallic gradients clipped to the text), Gradient fill (an animatable panning gradient), Glitch (an animated RGB-split), Emboss, Engrave, Letterpress, and Shadow pop.

Real per-effect implementation, not one shared recipe

Chrome and Gold foil use a background-clip: text gradient rather than a shadow; Outline uses -webkit-text-stroke rather than faking an edge with shadows; Glitch and Neon include real @keyframes for their animated versions. Each effect exposes only the controls it actually uses — a glow intensity slider for Neon, a stroke width for Outline, a gradient angle for Gradient fill — rather than one generic slider set applied to everything.

Editable text and optional animation

Preview text, font, size, weight, and letter-spacing are all editable, and effects that have an animated version (Neon, Fire, Gradient fill, Glitch) can have it toggled on to see the real @keyframes in motion before copying it.

Getting the complete CSS out

The export includes every property the specific effect needs — text-shadow, -webkit-text-stroke, background + background-clip, and the @keyframes block when animation is on — not just a single shadow line, copyable with one click.

Privacy

Everything runs locally in your browser -- nothing you build is sent to a server.

FAQ

Frequently asked questions

Is my data uploaded anywhere?
No. The text effect is built and rendered entirely in the browser -- nothing is sent to a server.
Are all 16 effects just different colours of the same shadow trick?
No -- each effect uses whatever CSS technique actually produces that look: text-shadow layering for glow/neon/3D effects, -webkit-text-stroke for outlines, and background-clip: text gradients for Chrome and Gold foil, rather than one shared recipe recoloured.
Which effects can be animated?
Neon (a flicker), Fire (a pulsing glow), Gradient fill (a panning gradient), and Glitch (an RGB-split jitter) each have a real @keyframes animation that can be toggled on.
How is Chrome or Gold foil actually built?
A metallic-looking linear gradient is clipped to the exact shape of the text using background-clip: text, with the text colour set to transparent so the gradient shows through -- not a flat colour with a shine effect faked on top.
Does the exported CSS include everything the effect needs, or just a shadow line?
Everything -- the export includes whatever combination of text-shadow, -webkit-text-stroke, background/background-clip, and @keyframes (when animation is on) the specific effect actually requires.
Can I change the text, font, and size?
Yes -- preview text, font, size, weight, and letter-spacing are all editable, so the effect can be checked against real content rather than a fixed placeholder word.
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