Recently, Chris Spooner of Line25 wrote a tutorial describing how to create a letterpress effect with CSS3′s text-shadow property.
In another article, Chris Coyier of CSS-Tricks showed how he makes all the text links on his website feel more button-like using a simple bit of CSS positioning.
During a recent project I was working on, while messing around with the CSS3 text-shadow property, I serendipitously combined the two different effects from those two articles to create a letterpress effect on active link states…