Collection of free HTML and CSS text shadow effect code examples

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Bigger Font Size, Bigger Text Shadow

Bigger Font Size, Bigger Text Shadow

Author:
Adam Argyle | July 24, 2021
Made with:
HTML / CSS

Compatible browsers:
Chrome, Edge, Firefox, Opera, Safari
Responsive:
yes
Dependencies:
-
Outlined Text Shadow with Fallback

Outlined Text Shadow with Fallback

Author:
Eric Portis | March 31, 2021
Made with:
HTML / CSS

Compatible browsers:
Chrome, Edge, Firefox, Opera, Safari
Responsive:
yes
Dependencies:
-
CSS Text Shadow Effect

CSS Text Shadow Effect

Author:
Mark Carr | February 22, 2021
Made with:
HTML / CSS (SCSS)

About a code

A CSS text background shadow effect using the content attribute.

Compatible browsers:
Chrome, Edge, Firefox, Opera, Safari
Responsive:
no
Dependencies:
-
Funky Retro Text Shadow

Funky Retro Text Shadow

Author:
miranda | October 6, 2020
Made with:
HTML / CSS (SCSS)

Compatible browsers:
Chrome, Edge, Firefox, Opera, Safari
Responsive:
no
Dependencies:
-
SAVE

SAVE

Author:
Sebastian Opperman | July 29, 2019
Made with:
HTML / CSS (SCSS)

About a code

Quirky CSS banner using box-shadows.

Compatible browsers:
Chrome, Edge, Firefox, Opera, Safari
Responsive:
no
Dependencies:
-

Popout Text With Background Image Shadow

Author:
MARK | October 25, 2018
Made with:
HTML (Pug) / CSS (SCSS)

About a code

Cutting out text from a background and then having it "popout" similar to how text shadow can be used. In fact, this does make use of text shadow!

Compatible browsers:
Chrome, Firefox, Opera, Safari
Responsive:
yes
Dependencies:
-
3D Cartoon Text with CSS text-shadow

3D Cartoon Text with CSS text-shadow

Author:
Fielding Johnston | October 15, 2018
Made with:
HTML / CSS

About a code

Playing around with CSS text-shadow and the Google Font "Luckiest Guy".

Compatible browsers:
Chrome, Edge, Firefox, Opera, Safari
Dependencies:
-
SCSS 3D Text Mixin

SCSS 3D Text Mixin

Author:
Liam Egan | September 24, 2018
Made with:
HTML / CSS (SCSS)

About a code

This is a simple SCSS mixin that creates 3D blocky looking text with text-shadows.

Compatible browsers:
Chrome, Edge, Firefox, Opera, Safari
Dependencies:
-
Animated text-shadow

Animated text-shadow

Author:
Erin E. Sullivan | September 10, 2018
Made with:
HTML / CSS

About a code

A fun, CSS animation that creates a bounce while mimicking an RGB separation during the process.

Compatible browsers:
Chrome, Edge, Firefox, Opera, Safari
Dependencies:
-
Direction-Aware text-shadow

Direction-Aware text-shadow

Author:
Martin Picod | June 13, 2018
Made with:
HTML / CSS (SCSS) / JavaScript

About a code

Direction-aware text-shadow, use of CSS variables to create perspective and 3D light effect on text.

Compatible browsers:
Chrome, Edge, Firefox, Opera, Safari
Dependencies:
-
Groovy CSS Effect

Groovy CSS Effect

Author:
Daniel Gonzalez | February 15, 2018
Made with:
HTML (Pug) / CSS (SCSS)

About a code

1960's font effect using CSS text-shadow property along with SASS function and mixins to keep code DRY.

Compatible browsers:
Chrome, Edge, Firefox, Opera, Safari
Dependencies:
-
Netflix Style Text Animation with CSS

Netflix Style Text Animation with CSS

Author:
Nooray Yemon | October 14, 2017
Made with:
HTML (Slim) / CSS (SCSS)

About a code

Netflix style text animation with CSS and a SCSS function to have the long text shadow.

Compatible browsers:
Chrome, Edge, Firefox, Opera, Safari
Dependencies:
-
Fancy Text Shadow

Fancy Text Shadow

Author:
agathaco | June 9, 2017
Made with:
HTML (Pug) / CSS (SCSS)

Compatible browsers:
Chrome, Edge, Firefox, Opera, Safari
Dependencies:
-
CSS text-shadow

CSS text-shadow

Author:
IMarty | June 6, 2017
Made with:
HTML / CSS (SCSS)

About a code

Modern shadow effect for text with CSS text-shadow.

Compatible browsers:
Chrome, Edge, Firefox, Opera, Safari
Dependencies:
-
Pretty Shadow

Pretty Shadow

Author:
Alex Moore | August 24, 2016
Made with:
HTML / CSS (SCSS)

About a code

Pretty text shadow.

Compatible browsers:
Chrome, Edge, Firefox, Opera, Safari
Dependencies:
-
Variable Longshadow with Gradients Mixin

Variable Longshadow with Gradients Mixin

Author:
Dario Corsi | April 15, 2016
Made with:
HTML / CSS (SCSS)

Compatible browsers:
Chrome, Edge, Firefox, Opera, Safari
Dependencies:
-
Neon Effects

Neon Effects

Author:
Erik Jung | February 28, 2016
Made with:
HTML / CSS / JavaScript

About a code

Neon text-shadow effects.

Compatible browsers:
Chrome, Edge, Firefox, Opera, Safari
Dependencies:
-
Pinchy Type with CSS text-shadow

Pinchy Type with CSS text-shadow

Author:
Bennett Feely | August 22, 2015
Made with:
HTML / CSS (SCSS)

Compatible browsers:
Chrome, Edge, Firefox, Opera, Safari
Responsive:
yes
Dependencies:
-
Awesome text-shadow

Awesome text-shadow

Author:
Nguyen Hoang Nam | February 9, 2015
Made with:
HTML / CSS

About a code

Flat and simple text shadow effect.

Compatible browsers:
Chrome, Edge, Firefox, Opera, Safari
Dependencies:
-
Text-Shadow

Text-Shadow

Author:
Mayur Elbhar | November 13, 2014
Made with:
HTML / CSS

Compatible browsers:
Chrome, Edge, Firefox, Opera, Safari
Dependencies:
-
Long Shadow Gradient Mixin

Long Shadow Gradient Mixin

Author:
roikles | May 20, 2014
Made with:
HTML / CSS (SCSS)

About a code

A Sass (SCSS) mixin to quickly generate long shadow gradients. Suitable for both text-shadow and box-shadow.

Compatible browsers:
Chrome, Edge, Firefox, Opera, Safari
Dependencies:
-
CSS3 text-shadow Effects

CSS3 text-shadow Effects

Author:
Jorge Epuñan | March 12, 2013
Made with:
HTML (Haml) / CSS (Less)

Compatible browsers:
Chrome, Edge, Firefox, Opera, Safari
Dependencies:
-
CSS Dashed Shadow

CSS Dashed Shadow

Author:
Lucas Bebber | November 6, 2013
Made with:
HTML / CSS (SCSS)

About a code

Pure CSS hipster-ish typographic dashed shadow.

Compatible browsers:
Chrome, Edge, Firefox, Opera, Safari
Dependencies:
-

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