30+ CSS Text Shadow Effects - Free Code + Demos

Collection of 30+ CSS Text Shadow Effects. All items are 100% free and open-source.

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1. 3D Cartoon Text W/CSS Text-shadow

CSS Text Shadow Effects - 3D Cartoon Text w/CSS text-shadow
Playing around with css text-shadow and the google font 'Luckiest Guy'.
Author: Fielding Johnston (fielding)
Created on: October 15, 2018
Made with: HTML, CSS
Tags: text-shadow, css3, 3d, typography, effect

2. SCSS 3D Text Mixin

CSS Text Shadow Effects - SCSS 3D text mixin
Author: Liam Egan (shubniggurath)
Created on: September 24, 2018
Made with: HTML, SCSS
Tags: scss, sass, mixin, text, 2.5d

3. Animated Text-Shadow

CSS Text Shadow Effects - Animated Text-Shadow
A fun, CSS animation that creates a bounce while mimicking an RGB separation during the process.
Author: Erin E. Sullivan (erinesullivan)
Created on: September 10, 2018
Made with: HTML, CSS
Tags: text-shadow, css, animation, rgb, rgb separation

4. Direction-aware Text-shadow

CSS Text Shadow Effects - Direction-aware text-shadow
Direction-aware text-shadow, use of css variables to create perspective and 3D light effect on text
Author: Martin Picod (mpicod)
Created on: June 13, 2018
Made with: HTML, SCSS, JS
Tags: 404, hover, variables, text-shadow

5. Groovy CSS Effect

CSS Text Shadow Effects - Groovy CSS Effect
1960's font effect using CSS text-shadow property along with SASS function and mixins to keep code DRY
Author: Daniel Gonzalez (dan10gc)
Created on: February 15, 2018
Made with: Pug, SCSS
CSS Pre-processor: SCSS
JS Pre-processor: None
HTML Pre-processor: Pug
Tags: scss, css, text-shadow, fonts

6. Netflix Style Text Animation With CSS

CSS Text Shadow Effects - Netflix style text animation with CSS
Netflix style text animation with CSS and a SCSS function to have the long text shadow
Author: Nooray Yemon (yemon)
Created on: October 13, 2017
Made with: Slim, SCSS
CSS Pre-processor: SCSS
JS Pre-processor: None
HTML Pre-processor: Slim
Tags: css, netflix, animation, long-shadow, scss

7. Fancy Text Shadow

CSS Text Shadow Effects - Fancy text shadow
Author: agathaco (agathaco)
Created on: June 9, 2017
Made with: Pug, SCSS
CSS Pre-processor: SCSS
JS Pre-processor: None
HTML Pre-processor: Pug

9. Pretty Shadow

CSS Text Shadow Effects - Pretty shadow
Author: Alex Moore (MoorLex)
Created on: August 24, 2016
Made with: HTML, SCSS

10. Variable Longshadow With Gradients Mixin

CSS Text Shadow Effects - Variable Longshadow with Gradients Mixin
"Your scientists were so preoccupied with whether or not they could, they didn’t stop to think if they should." This doesn't need to exist. But now you can define long shadows with different colors and spreads with one Sass mixin.
Author: Dario Corsi (dariocorsi)
Created on: April 15, 2016
Made with: HTML, SCSS
Tags: mixins, sass, typography, longshadow, trendy

11. Neon Text-shadow Effect

CSS Text Shadow Effects - Neon text-shadow effect
Author: Erik Jung (erikjung)
Created on: February 27, 2016
Made with: HTML, CSS, JS

12. Awesome Text-Shadow

CSS Text Shadow Effects - Awesome Text-Shadow
Author: Nguyen Hoang Nam (namho)
Created on: February 9, 2015
Made with: HTML, CSS

13. Text-Shadow

CSS Text Shadow Effects - Text-Shadow
Author: Mayur Elbhar (mayurelbhar)
Created on: November 13, 2014
Made with: HTML, CSS, JS
Tags: text-shadow, css-only, css, text-effect, vintage

14. Long Shadow Gradient Mixin

CSS Text Shadow Effects - Long Shadow Gradient Mixin
A Sass (Scss) Mixin to quickly generate long shadow gradients. Suitable for both 'text-shadow' and 'box-shadow'.
Author: roikles (roikles)
Created on: May 20, 2014
Made with: HTML, SCSS
Tags: long-shadow-gradient-mixin-sass

15. CSS3 Text-shadow Effects

CSS Text Shadow Effects - CSS3 text-shadow effects
Author: Jorge Epuñan (juanbrujo)
Created on: March 12, 2013
Made with: Haml, Less
CSS Pre-processor: Less
JS Pre-processor: None
HTML Pre-processor: Haml
Tags: css3, text, effects

16. Complex Text Shadow Examples

CSS Text Shadow Effects - Complex Text Shadow Examples
Compilation of some fancy text shadows from around the web: http://blog.typekit.com/2011/07/19/shading-with-css-text-shadows/ http://css-tricks.com/snippets/css/two-color-three-dimensional-blocks-and-text/ http://www.3dcsstext.com/ http://markdotto.com/playground/3d-text/
Author: Chris Coyier (chriscoyier)
Made with: Slim, CSS, JS
CSS Pre-processor: None
JS Pre-processor: None
HTML Pre-processor: Slim

17. Text Shadow Compilation

CSS Text Shadow Effects - Text Shadow Compilation
20-something unique examples of text shadows in CSS, from the beautiful to the bizarre to the "do you still use comic sans, too?" type stuff.
Author: Theodoros Mouratidis (fist_of_zeus)
Created on: July 29, 2013
Made with: HTML, SCSS

18. Neon Text-shadow Effect

CSS Text Shadow Effects - Neon text-shadow effect
Author: Erik Jung (erikjung)
Created on: February 27, 2016
Made with: HTML, CSS, JS

19. A Collection Of CSS Text-shadow And Pattern Effects

CSS Text Shadow Effects - A collection of CSS text-shadow and pattern effects
This pen experiments with some simple text effects you can create using text-shadow and hover transitions. I’ve also played around with creating a patterned hover text effect, mixing those effects with a bit of SVG. Created by Ashley Nolan. Twitter: https://twitter.com/AshNolan_ More P...
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Author: Ashley Watson-Nolan (ashleynolan)
Created on: January 19, 2015
Made with: HTML, SCSS
Tags: hover, transition, css3, 3d, svg

20. "Roses" Rainbow CSS Text Shadow Effect

CSS Text Shadow Effects - "Roses" Rainbow CSS Text Shadow Effect
text-shadow is a fun little CSS style that can spark up any simple text into a beautiful work of art. yeah! I am exaggerating but text-shadow is really cool.
Author: Shireen Taj (TajShireen)
Made with: HTML, CSS

21. Text Shadow Effect

CSS Text Shadow Effects - Text Shadow Effect
Exploring overlapping text and box shadow. Using Instagram for design direction: https://www.instagram.com/p/CEEftChAMIG/
Author: Monica Wheeler (monicawheeler)
Created on: August 24, 2020
Made with: HTML, SCSS
Tags: text-shadow, shadow, sassloop

22. CSS Jumping Letters

CSS Text Shadow Effects - CSS Jumping Letters
Author: Alina (alinas_view)
Created on: June 17, 2020
Made with: HTML, CSS
Tags: css, animation, jump, letter, text-shadow

23. Text-shadow Fun

CSS Text Shadow Effects - text-shadow fun
Author: Matt DeCamp (mattdecamp)
Created on: August 11, 2020
Made with: HTML, CSS
Tags: text-shadow

24. Fusing Light Bulb Text Effect

CSS Text Shadow Effects - Fusing light bulb Text  effect
Author: Ankit Navrang (AnkitNavrang)
Created on: April 25, 2020
Made with: HTML, CSS, JS
Tags: text-shadow, css, light bulb effect in text, light bulb

25. CSS Text Shadow - Animate On Hover

CSS Text Shadow Effects - CSS Text Shadow - Animate On Hover
Author: Rahul Chaudhary (Rahulive)
Created on: April 24, 2020
Made with: HTML, CSS
Tags: html, css, text-shadow, animation, hover

26. Text Inner-shadow

CSS Text Shadow Effects - Text inner-shadow
Author: Roy Mosby (egomadking)
Created on: November 30, 2019
Made with: HTML, SCSS
Tags: text-shadow, emboss, embossing, letterpress

27. CSS Text Gradient With Text-shadow

CSS Text Shadow Effects - CSS text gradient with text-shadow
Author: Ruslan (varinetz)
Created on: March 11, 2019
Made with: Pug, SCSS
CSS Pre-processor: SCSS
JS Pre-processor: None
HTML Pre-processor: Pug
Tags: gradient, text-shadow, text-effect, css-text, gradient-text

28. Moving Text-shadow

CSS Text Shadow Effects - Moving Text-shadow
Author: Shadi (ShadiMouma)
Created on: May 7, 2018
Made with: HTML, CSS, JS
Tags: text, text-shadow, shadow
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