Cool CSS Text Effects

Text effects using CSS shadows

First we'll create text effects using the CSS Shadow Property and then we'll create text effects using the CSS Background Image Property.
The HTML code will be same for all the examples below. Only the CSS code will change.

The HTML code

Just put your text inside any div or span and give it an id=style. For the example below, we are working with the text "CSS Text Effects".

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   <div id=style>

        CSS Text Effects

    </div> 

Apply shadow to the text inside the <div> with the id style.

The Syntax

text-shadow:(x-offset) (y-offset) (blur-radius) (color)

The Colorful Style

Three colored shadows are used here. So we'll have to define three shadow values, each separated by a comma.

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#style{
text-shadow: 0 6px 4px #85c226,
		     -3px -5px 4px #fe2192,
		     3px -5px 4px #f7c200;
} 

The Double Font Style

A single shadow is used here. The Pink(#fe2192) colored shadow has a y-offset value set at -15 pixel.

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#style{
text-shadow:0px -15px 0 #fe2192;
} 

The Neon Glow Style

A single Blue(#1E90FF) colored shadow is used here with a Blur Radius of 7 pixel.
The text color is also the same Blue(#1E90FF) color.

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#style{
text-shadow: 0 0 7px #1E90FF;
background:#000000;
color: #1E90FF;
} 

The Inset Effect

Two shadows are used here, each of them moved 1 pixel along the x-y axis in opposite directions.
The Background and the Text have the same Grey(#CCCCCC) Color.

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#style{
background: #CCCCCC;
color: #CCCCCC;
text-shadow: -1px -1px 3px #666666,
                       1px 1px 3px #FFFFFF;

} 

The Outset Style

We'll do the exact opposite of what we did for the Inset Effect.

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#style{
background: #CCCCCC;
color: #CCCCCC;
text-shadow: 1px 1px 3px #666666,
                       -1px -1px 3px #FFFFFF;
} 

Text Effects Using CSS Backgrounds

Here we'll use transparent images to create the Text Effects.
We just need to insert an empty <span></span> tag inside the <div> with id style.
The transparent images will be used as the background for these span tags.
Then we'll position the <span> element over the text using z-index property to give it a different look.

The HTML Code

Lets have look at the HTML code.
The text and the empty <span> is inside the <div> with id style.

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   <div id=style>

        CSS Text Effects<span></span>

    </div> 

The Grunge Style

We will have to define two separate styles for the style div element and for the span element inside the div element.

The style div element has a css position property set to relative so that the span element can be positioned related to the style div element.

This is the image used for the grunge effect.

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#style{
	position:relative;
	font-weight: bold;
	color:red;
	background: #000;
}
#style span{
    position:absolute;
    display:block;
    top:0;
    left:0;
    height:100%;
    width:100%;
    z-index: 21;
    background:url('images/grunge.png');
} 

The Glossy Style

The code is the same as above, only the image is different.

This is the image used for the gloss effect.

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#style{
	position: relative;
	font-weight: bold;
	color:orange;
}
#style span{
    position:absolute;
    display:block;
    top:0;
    left:0;
    height:100%;
    width:100%;
    z-index: 21;
    background:url('images/glossy.png');
}