Tag: text-shadow

12 Fun CSS Text Shadows You Can Copy and Paste

Looking for a quick and easy way to add text shadows to your design? Here’s an article with a few useful CSS3 text-shadow code samples that you can cut and paste then use in your own work…
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CSS Box Shadow & Text Shadow Experiments

Using a little HTML and some CSS we take a trip to the dark side of the moon, create a periodical table and make a radioactive love concoction. We even throw some CSS animations in there to add to the party…
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Getting Clever with CSS3 Shadows – Screencast

As soon as we detach a shadow from the element, itself, we can then transform the shadow in interesting and creative ways. This quick video tutorial will show you how…
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Fun With CSS Text-Shadow

I used 100 text-shadows to make the graphic below happen. Sure, it’s excessive, ridiculous and just plain silly. But why, at times, can’t the web be all of those things? I’m all for sensible, well-reasoned CSS, but let’s keep things in perspective. We’re not surgeons. We can experiment without causing anyone bodily injury…
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Using CSS3 Text Shadow for Active Link States

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, […]
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Shadows and CSS3

I’m currently working on a design that uses text-shadow and box-shadow, with RGBA in place to create the shadow color. I wanted to tweet about this technique because it’s simple and awesome, but to my surprise I couldn’t find a good, quick tutorial that covered the use of both text and box-shadow, along with RGBA. […]
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Create a Letterpress Effect with CSS Text-Shadow

The letterpress effect is becoming hugely popular in web design, and with a couple of modern browsers now showing support for the text-shadow CSS3 property it’s now simple and easy to create the effect with pure CSS. No Photoshop trickery here…
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