CSS Text Effects Generator

Most CSS text-effect galleries hand you a fixed preset: one neon glow, one 3D extrusion, take it or leave it. This generator builds the CSS from your parameters instead, on the text you actually type. Pick neon glow, 3D-extrude, letterpress/emboss, outlined or gradient-fill from the effect select, adjust that effect's own controls, and the live preview plus the copyable CSS block below it update on every change.

The 3D-extrude effect is the one worth understanding: for a chosen depth (number of stacked layers) and angle, layer i is offset by i × cos(angle) horizontally and i × sin(angle) vertically, computed in JavaScript with the real trigonometric functions — not read from a lookup table of preset angles. At 45 degrees the horizontal and vertical offsets come out equal for every layer, because cosine and sine of 45° are the same value; rotate the angle slider and watch the whole stack of `text-shadow` layers swing around the letters in real time, each one darkened a little more than the last to fake a lit 3D face.

Neon glow stacks four `text-shadow` layers of increasing blur radius in your chosen color, with an optional flicker: toggle it on and a `@keyframes` rule with a randomized sequence of opacity dips gets generated and animated live, and a shuffle button lets you reroll the pattern without writing a single keyframe by hand. Outlined text applies `-webkit-text-stroke` for browsers that support it, plus an honest 8-directional `text-shadow` fallback for the ones that don't — both lines ship in the copied CSS with a note on why. Gradient-fill clips a `linear-gradient` to the text shape with `background-clip: text`, now a standard property with broad support, keeping the older `-webkit-` prefixed line for legacy engines.

Everything renders locally in your browser — no text you type is ever sent anywhere. Copy the finished CSS block, including the `@keyframes` rule when the effect needs one, straight into your stylesheet.