30+ Awesome CSS Text Glitch Effects (Free Code)

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1. Glitch Text

CSS Text Glitch Effects - Glitch Text
There's some cool glitchy text effects on CodePen, but some have draw backs, like needing black backgrounds, or heavy use of blend modes. This version is two of the better methods merged together, from Justin and Lucas Bebber, with some added stuff from me. Mostly the glow and getting it ...
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Author: Chase (chasebank)
Created on: March 11, 2016
Made with: HTML, SCSS
Tags: glitch, distort, text, typography, effect

2. Psycho CSS Glitch Effect Using CSS Variables

CSS Text Glitch Effects - Psycho CSS Glitch Effect Using CSS Variables
The "glitch" effect, recreated with animated CSS custom properties. Pure CSS. It doesn't work in Firefox for now, but will work in the next version. I have no idea why i called it like that.
Author: Alex Nozdriukhin (alexnoz)
Created on: May 29, 2017
Made with: HTML, SCSS, JS
Tags: custom properties, animation, glitch

3. CSS VHS Text

CSS Text Glitch Effects - CSS VHS Text
Author: Maria (Shorina)
Created on: January 10, 2017
Made with: Haml, SCSS, JS
CSS Pre-processor: SCSS
JS Pre-processor: None
HTML Pre-processor: Haml

4. Glitching Text SCSS

CSS Text Glitch Effects - Glitching Text SCSS
A simple solution to creating a glitched text solution using only one text tag and some SCSS, using randomized animations. Commented for easy viewing.
Author: Isaac Doud (cipherbeta)
Created on: May 18, 2018
Made with: HTML, SCSS
Tags: glitch, scss, animation, random

5. Simple Text Glitch

CSS Text Glitch Effects - Simple text glitch
Author: Luke Meyrick (lukemeyrick)
Created on: August 29, 2017
Made with: Pug, SCSS
CSS Pre-processor: SCSS
JS Pre-processor: Babel
HTML Pre-processor: Pug

6. Glitch Effect In LESS

CSS Text Glitch Effects - Glitch effect in LESS
Simple demonstration of how LESS can be used to create the 'Glitch' effect. Inspired by an article on CSS Tricks which uses SASS instead (https://css-tricks.com/glitch-effect-text-images-svg/).
Author: Ana Travas (anatravas)
Created on: November 7, 2016
Made with: Pug, Less
CSS Pre-processor: Less
JS Pre-processor: None
HTML Pre-processor: Pug
Tags: glitch, less, animation, css, effect

7. Glitch Hover Effect CSS

CSS Text Glitch Effects - Glitch hover effect CSS
A Glitch hover effect using only css. From https://ihatetomatoes.net/how-to-create-css-glitch-effect/
Author: Kevin Konrad Henriquez (kkhenriquez)
Created on: October 27, 2016
Made with: HTML, SCSS
Tags: css, animation

8. Glitch Text

CSS Text Glitch Effects - Glitch Text
Author: zoite (gstorbeck)
Created on: September 28, 2016
Made with: Pug, SCSS
CSS Pre-processor: SCSS
JS Pre-processor: None
HTML Pre-processor: Pug

9. Glitch Text Effect

CSS Text Glitch Effects - Glitch Text Effect
Glitchy Text Effect
Author: Fabio (fabiowallner)
Created on: September 24, 2016
Made with: Pug, Sass
CSS Pre-processor: Sass
JS Pre-processor: None
HTML Pre-processor: Pug
Tags: animated, glitch

10. Glitchy CSS

CSS Text Glitch Effects - Glitchy CSS
Author: Christian Petersen (cbp)
Created on: May 6, 2016
Made with: HTML, SCSS

11. Glitched Text

CSS Text Glitch Effects - Glitched Text
Author: Alex Pivtorak (alexpivtorak)
Created on: December 15, 2014
Made with: HTML, Sass, JS

12. Glitch Effect In CSS

CSS Text Glitch Effects - Glitch effect in CSS
Glitch effect on hover, as seen on http://www.kikk.be/2016/. Shout out to @Dogstudio for this cool website!
Author: Thomas Aufresne (origine)
Created on: October 12, 2016
Made with: HTML, Less, JS
Tags: css

13. Glitch Effect

CSS Text Glitch Effects - Glitch Effect
Glitch effect made with CSS only...Day 4 of my personal challenge.
Author: Asfo Zavala (asfo)
Created on: October 29, 2015
Made with: HTML, CSS, JS

14. 404 Not Found

CSS Text Glitch Effects - 404 not found
Glitch CSS
Author: meshare (meshare)
Created on: June 19, 2020
Made with: HTML, SCSS
Tags: 404, not-found, error-page, glitch

15. Text Glitch Effect

CSS Text Glitch Effects - Text Glitch Effect
Totally glitchin text effect. Created by animating ::before and ::after pseudo-elements.
Author: marinda (mariiinda)
Created on: May 29, 2020
Made with: HTML, SCSS
Tags: glitch, css-animation, text-effect

16. Glitchy CSS Text

CSS Text Glitch Effects - Glitchy CSS Text
A simple css only glitch effect
Author: Nuro Azhar (noureddinemade)
Made with: HTML, Sass

17. Glitch Effect On Words

CSS Text Glitch Effects - Glitch Effect on Words
Glitchy effect on words using data-text and CSS @keyframes.
Author: AquaCoder (aquacode)
Created on: February 10, 2020
Made with: HTML, CSS
Tags: glitch, keyframes, html, datatext, css

18. CSS Only Glitch Effect

CSS Text Glitch Effects - CSS Only Glitch Effect
Author: Ahmed Mohaisen (ahmed_mohaisen)
Created on: May 31, 2020
Made with: HTML, CSS
Tags: css, glitch, effect, animation, color

19. Glitched CSS Loading Page

CSS Text Glitch Effects - Glitched CSS Loading Page
A glitchy loading page that doesn't use Javascript at all.
Author: Delta Sign (DeltaSign)
Created on: December 8, 2019
Made with: HTML, CSS
Tags: glitch, loading, dark mode, pure-css, no-javascript

20. Glitch Text

CSS Text Glitch Effects - Glitch Text
Change the text with js
Author: GlitchBoy (the_glichboy)
Created on: September 23, 2019
Made with: HTML, CSS, JS
Tags: js, css, html, glitch, effect

21. CSS Hover Glitch

CSS Text Glitch Effects - CSS Hover Glitch
Author: Max (maxbrunel)
Made with: Pug, Stylus
CSS Pre-processor: Stylus
JS Pre-processor: None
HTML Pre-processor: Pug

22. Glitching Text In CSS

CSS Text Glitch Effects - Glitching text in CSS
By using clip-path property, we can create distortion and glitch effect with just CSS3 and HTML5
Author: Nirajan Basnet (nirazanbasnet)
Made with: HTML, SCSS

23. PSYCHO-PASS Glitch Animation

CSS Text Glitch Effects - PSYCHO-PASS Glitch Animation
Glitch Animation on psycho-pass.com
Author: Michinosuke (Michinosuke)
Created on: November 25, 2019
Made with: Pug, SCSS, TypeScript
CSS Pre-processor: SCSS
JS Pre-processor: TypeScript
HTML Pre-processor: Pug
Tags: glitch, animation

24. CSS Glitchy Text Effect

CSS Text Glitch Effects - CSS Glitchy Text Effect
Author: Ed Hicks (blucube)
Created on: May 21, 2019
Made with: HTML, SCSS
Tags: css, glitch, animation, text

25. 404 Glitch Effect

CSS Text Glitch Effects - 404 Glitch Effect
Glitch effect created for Valtech.com
Author: Martijn de Valk (martijndevalk)
Created on: January 11, 2019
Made with: HTML, SCSS, Babel
Tags: 404, glitch, greensock, valtech