15 Amazing CSS3 Text Effects

CSS3 boasts some turely amazing text effects that can help you make your website look really impressive and stylish. Designers loves clean and cool typography and they have always depended on Photoshop, but CSS3 has totally revolutionized the way text effects were added. You should definitely try using CSS3 as you can create awesome text effects quite handily. Be inspired with this amazing text effect tutorial and to make an excellent die cut business card. So today we have a list of 15 Amazing Uses of CSS3 Text Effects to Ameliorate Your Web Presence. Check them out!


Cool Text Effects Using CSS3 Text-Shadow


Cool Text Effects Using CSS3 Text-Shadow

Alfonse Surigao shows cool CSS3 is to use and how many effects can one generate using it. Text shadow effect has been used.


Inset Text With CSS3


Inset Text With CSS3

If you wish to create an inset text effect using CSS3, then you should definitely check this tutorial by Stylizedweb. They teach you in 3 simple steps!


Text Shadow Box


Text Shadow Box

This is a really cool text shadow box. The text shadow property of CSS is used to create this effect. It works with popular browsers such as Chrome, Safari and Firefox 3.5. Simply move your cursor and see the effect!


Create Outline To Your Text


Create Outline To Your Text

Outlining text with a cool color can add style to your text. In this tutorial Matt teaches you how to outline text amazingly using CSS. But the downer is that it is only compatible with Safari and Chrome.


Create Beautiful CSS3 Typography


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Stylish typography can make your text look extremely cool. Your readers would love it. This tutorial will teach you how to make your text artistic and voguish but still readable.


Subtle CSS3 Typography


Subtle CSS3 Typography

This tutorial will teach you how to use CSS3 outlines and text shadows properties to create this subtle typography. It is from Jeffery Way. Subtle and beautiful!


Letterpress Effect With CSS Text-Shadow


Letterpress Effect With CSS Text-Shadow

This is definitely an awesome CSS property that you can use to create beautiful text. It was considered as industrial printing method but now it is often used in designing.


CSS3 Background Clip


CSS3 Background Clip

This one lets you create a background clip easily. This tutorial is an experiment background clip, text and font face through typekit.


CSS3 Cookbook


CSS3 Cookbook

The best thing about this tutorial is that you are given the ability to simply copy and paste the code, customize it and put it into your project. You can also make your text more cooler by utilizing options like Small Caps, CSS Coupon, Stitched, Simple Stroke and double Stroke tricks.


Glass Text Effect


Glass Text Effect

This tutorial is about how to create the glass text effect or refractive index effect. The edges have been experimented with and the markup has been kep minimum in order to create the animation.


CSS3 Tilt-shift Text


CSS3 Tilt-shift Text

This tutorial teaches you how to create a Tilt-Shift text effect. The radius has been somewhat blurred from top and bottom and the Tilt-Shift effect has been applied.


How To Use Text Shadow With CSS3


How To Use Text Shadow With CSS3

Well, this question is answered very nicely by Ali Hitch as he shows how the text shadow property can be used to create different effects, even the artistic typography effects such as Blur, 3D, Glow and indent effect.


Create 3D Text Using CSS3


Create 3D Text Using CSS3

Rohit Aneja teaches us how to create 3D. He simply utilizes the text shadow and adds it to headings and paragraph tags to give it a 3D look.


Flash Light


Flashlight effect

This is a great effect but the only downer is that it works only in Safari. Text shadow is used with the transparent text. The hover effect is achieved by using the rotate transition with low perspective.


Change Default Text Selection Colour


Change Default Text Selection Colour

This is a really cool effect as it can change the highlight selected text color. And the best part is that it works in almost all browsers.


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4 Comments

  1. cssrex says:

    Thanks for listing my tutorial here..

    I appreciate it 🙂

  2. Very nice css code effect. Very good and quality design.

  3. punithan says:

    nice effects!thanks