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3D Layered Text: Motion and Variations
20.8.2025
In this chapter, we will explore ways to animate the effect, add transitions, and play with different variations. We will look at how motion can enhance depth, and how subtle tweaks can create a whole new vibe.
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3D Layered Text: The Basics
18.8.2025
A client asked me to create a bulging text effect. With a bit of cleverness and some advanced CSS, I managed to get a result I’m genuinely proud of, which is covered in this three-part series.
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We Might Need Something Between Root and Relative CSS Units for “Base Elements”
13.8.2025
I've come to realize that perhaps we need to have a unit between root and relative values. This would bring about a whole new possibility when creating reusable components.
We Might Need Something Between Root and Relative CSS Units for “Base Elements” originally published...
Getting Creative With Quotes
11.8.2025
How do you design block quotes and pull quotes to reflect a brand’s visual identity and help tell its story? Here’s how I do it by styling the HTML blockquote element using borders, decorative quote marks, custom shapes, and a few unexpected properties.
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Interactive Text Destruction with Three.js, WebGPU, and TSL
22.7.2025
Learn how to create an interactive 3D text effect where letters explode into dynamic shapes using Three.js, WebGPU, and Three Shader Language (TSL)
Getting Creative With Versal Letters
18.7.2025
A versal letters is a typographic flourish found in illuminated manuscripts and traditional book design, where it adds visual interest and helps guide a reader’s eye to where they should begin.
Getting Creative With Versal Letters originally published on CSS-Tricks, which is part of...
Setting Line Length in CSS (and Fitting Text to a Container)
14.7.2025
The many ways to juggle line length when working with text... including two proposed properties that could make it easier in the future.
Setting Line Length in CSS (and Fitting Text to a Container) originally published on CSS-Tricks, which is part of the DigitalOcean family. You should get...
How to Create Responsive and SEO-friendly WebGL Text
5.6.2025
Learn how to combine responsive HTML text with WebGL rendering, enabling scroll-driven animations and custom shader effects
From SplitText to MorphSVG: 5 Creative Demos Using Free GSAP Plugins
14.5.2025
GSAP's premium plugins are now free, and this article explores their creative potential through five playful animation demos
“Pretty” is in the eye of the beholder
18.4.2025
Yay, let's jump for text-wrap: pretty landing in Safari Technology Preview! But beware that it's different from how it works in Chromium browsers.
“Pretty” is in the eye of the beholder originally published on CSS-Tricks, which is part of the DigitalOcean family. You should get...
Animating Letters with Shaders: Interactive Text Effect with Three.js & GLSL
24.3.2025
A beginner-friendly tutorial that explores how to create a dynamic text displacement effect using Three.js and custom shaders
Case Study: Stefan Vitasović Portfolio — 2025
5.3.2025
An article behind the process of Stefan's 2025 creative dev portfolio — a minimalist design, dynamic visuals and shader effects
100 Days of Web Experiments: A Designer’s Journey into the Unknown
24.2.2025
A designer’s journey of creative exploration—100 days, 100 experiments, and the lessons learned along the way
Building an On-Scroll 3D Circle Text Animation with Three.js and Shaders
3.2.2025
Learn how to create a circular text animation in 3D space using Three.js, shaders, and msdf-text-utils
Positioning Text Around Elements With CSS Offset
24.1.2025
When it comes to positioning elements on a page, including text, there are many ways to go about it in CSS — the literal position property with corresponding inset-* properties, translate, margin, anchor() (limited browser support at the moment), and so forth. The offset property is another...
Fluid Superscripts and Subscripts
11.12.2024
How much attention do you pay to the alignments of your subscripts and superscripts? Lorenz Wöehr has you covered with a recipe for fluid scaling.
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Tim Brown: Flexible Typesetting is now yours, for free
11.11.2024
Another title from A Book Apart has been re-released for free. The latest? Tim Brown's Flexible Typesetting. I may not be the utmost expert on typography and its best practices but I do remember reading this book (it's still on the shelf next to me!) thinking maybe, just maybe, I might be able...
How to Create an Organic Text Distortion Effect with Infinite Scrolling
6.11.2024
Learn how to create an organic distortion effect for text using JavaScript and CSS for a unique, fluid animation
Fluid Everything Else
5.11.2024
We can apply the concept of fluid typography to almost anything. This way we can have a layout that fluidly changes with the size of its parent container. Few users will ever see the transition, but they will all appreciate the results. Honestly, they will.
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You can use text-wrap: balance; on icons
24.10.2024
Terence Eden on using text-wrap: balance for more than headings:
But the name is, I think, slightly misleading. It doesn’t only work on text. It will work on any content. For example – I have a row of icons at
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