This article showcases a curated collection of CSS text shadow effects for developers and designers that they use to add a shadow behind text, creating visual depth and enhancing its appearance. These effects are intended to captivate and enchant your visitors, sourced from authentic sources for adding visual appeal to your content.
CSS text shadow effects refer to the ability to add shadow effects to the text of a web page using advanced CSS (Cascading Style Sheets) properties. Embracing the design of a text on a web page by adding the illusion of depth and controlling various aspects of the text shadow, including creating bulging text and adjusting blur, color, radius, and position through horizontal and vertical offsets. Even the text shadow effect is very powerful to make the shadow style subtle and visually appealing.
We’ve gathered these text shadow effects with free HTML and CSS codes and examples from valuable sources like CodePen and GitHub. Now let’s explore our assortment of CSS text shadow effects and experience the newest and finest effects.
01. 3D Cartoon Text with CSS Text Shadow
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3D Cartoon Text w/CSS text-shadow by Fielding Johnston (@fielding)
on CodePen.
Author: Fielding Johnston @fielding
Links: Source Code / Demo
Created on: October 16, 2018
Made with: HTML, CSS
02. Outlined Text Shadow with Fallback
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outlined text shadow with fallback by Eric Portis (@eeeps)
on CodePen.
Author: Eric Portis @eeeps
Links: Source Code / Demo
Created on: March 31, 2021
Made with: HTML, CSS
03. Animated Text-Shadow
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Animated Text-Shadow by Erin E. Sullivan (@erinesullivan)
on CodePen.
Author: Erin E. Sullivan @erinesullivan
Links: Source Code / Demo
Created on: September 10, 2018
Made with: HTML, CSS
04. Variable Longshadow with Gradients Mixin
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Variable Longshadow with Gradients Mixin by Dario Corsi (@dariocorsi)
on CodePen.
Author: Dario Corsi @dariocorsi
Links: Source Code / Demo
Created on: April 15, 2016
Made with: HTML, CSS, SCSS
05. 3D-Text with Text-Shadow
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3D-Text with Text-Shadow by Daniel Riemer (@zitrusfrisch)
on CodePen.
Author: Daniel Riemer @zitrusfrisch
Links: Source Code / Demo
Created on: December 29, 2012
Made with: HTML, CSS
06. Groovy CSS Effect
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Groovy CSS Effect by Daniel Gonzalez (@dan10gc)
on CodePen.
Author: Daniel Gonzalez @dan10gc
Links: Source Code / Demo
Created on: February 16, 2018
Made with: HTML(Pug), CSS, SCSS
07. Text Shadow
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text-shadow by IMarty (@IMarty)
on CodePen.
Author: IMarty @IMarty
Links: Source Code / Demo
Created on: June 6, 2017
Made with: HTML, CSS, SCSS
08. Funky Retro Text Shadow
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Funky Retro Text Shadow by miranda (@mirandalwashburn)
on CodePen.
Author: miranda @mirandalwashburn
Links: Source Code / Demo
Created on: October 6, 2020
Made with: HTML, CSS, SCSS
09. Text Shadow- Embossed
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Text Shadow Example by Aakhya Singh (@aakhya)
on CodePen.
Author: Aakhya Singh @aakhya
Links: Source Code / Demo
Created on: November 18, 2018
Made with: HTML, CSS
10. Text Shadow- Emerging Out
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Text Shadow Example by Aakhya Singh (@aakhya)
on CodePen.
Author: Aakhya Singh @aakhya
Links: Source Code / Demo
Created on: November 18, 2018
Made with: HTML, CSS
11. Text Shadow- Letterpressed
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Text Shadow Example by Aakhya Singh (@aakhya)
on CodePen.
Author: Aakhya Singh @aakhya
Links: Source Code / Demo
Created on: November 18, 2018
Made with: HTML, CSS
12. Neon Text-shadow Effect
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Neon text-shadow effect by Erik Jung (@erikjung)
on CodePen.
Author: Erik Jung @erikjung
Links: Source Code / Demo
Created on: February 28, 2016
Made with: HTML, CSS, JS
13. Netflix Style Text Animation With CSS
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Netflix style text animation with CSS by Nooray Yemon (@yemon)
on CodePen.
Author: Nooray Yemon @yemon
Links: Source Code / Demo
Created on: October 14, 2017
Made with: HTML (SLIM), CSS, SCSS
14. Text Shadow- Rainbow Effect
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Text Shadow Example by Aakhya Singh (@aakhya)
on CodePen.
Author: Aakhya Singh @aakhya
Links: Source Code / Demo
Created on: November 18, 2018
Made with: HTML, CSS
15. Pinchy Type with CSS Text-Shadow
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Pinchy Type with CSS text-shadow by Bennett Feely (@bennettfeely)
on CodePen.
Author: Bennett Feely @bennettfeely
Links: Source Code / Demo
Created on: August 23, 2015
Made with: HTML, CSS, SCSS
16. Shaded Text
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Shaded Text by Rafael González (@rgg)
on CodePen.
Author: Rafael González @rgg
Links: Source Code / Demo
Created on: September 16, 2016
Made with: HTML(Pug), CSS, SCSS
17. Pretty Shadow
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Pretty shadow by Alex Moore (@MoorLex)
on CodePen.
Author: Alex Moore @MoorLex
Links: Source Code / Demo
Created on: August 24, 2016
Made with: HTML, CSS
18. Text-Shadow
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Text-Shadow by Mayur Elbhar (@mayurelbhar)
on CodePen.
Author: Mayur Elbhar @mayurelbhar
Links: Source Code / Demo
Created on: November 13, 2014
Made with: HTML, CSS
19. CSS Alphabets
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CSS Alphabets | Part-1 [A] | #Programmer by #Programmer (@SuperbProgrammer)
on CodePen.
Author: #Programmer @SuperbProgrammer
Links: Source Code / Demo
Created on: November 29, 2021
Made with: HTML, CSS
20. Rotating Text Shadow (CSS only)
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Rotating Text Shadow (CSS only) by DanteInfernali (@DanteInfernali)
on CodePen.
Author: DanteInfernali @DanteInfernali
Links: Source Code / Demo
Created on: November 06, 2019
Made with: HTML, CSS
21. Knockout Text Example
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Knockout Text Example by Aakhya Singh (@aakhya)
on CodePen.
Author: Aakhya Singh @aakhya
Links: Source Code / Demo
Created on: November 18, 2018
Made with: HTML, CSS