Experimenting “Background-Clip: Text”

Experimenting “Background-Clip: Text”

An awesome way to enhance a website template design is to play around using CSS3. Mary Lou of Tympanus.net shows us a fun way to add a background image to a text element by experimenting on the CSS property “background-clip: text”. We can create very beautiful effects with the addition of these CSS3 transitions.

Take note that the property “background-clip: text” is supported in Webkit browsers only.

Here’s the demo of the experiment: http://tympanus.net/Tutorials/ExperimentsBackgroundClipText/index.html

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To show the transitions, “it-animate” class is applied to the wrapper with jQuery. Here’s the markup:

<div class="it-wrapper">

        <h3>Andreas</h3>

</div>

Sample 1

The CSS from the above example is as follows:

.it-wrapper h3{

        font-size: 320px;

        line-height: 188px;

        padding: 60px 30px 30px;

        color: rgba(67, 201, 117, 0.9);

        font-family: 'BebasNeueRegular', Arial, sans-serif;

        text-shadow: 10px 10px 2px rgba(0,0,0,0.2);

        -webkit-text-stroke: 10px rgba(255,255,255,0.6);

        background-color: #fff;

        background-repeat: no-repeat;

        background-image: url(../images/2.jpg), url(../images/1.jpg);

        background-position: 50% 50%;

        background-size: 100%;

        -webkit-background-clip: text;

        /* let's assume that one day it's supported */

        -moz-background-clip: text;

        background-clip: text;

        transition: all 0.5s linear;

        /* for now, let's just add some niceness for Firefox */

        -moz-border-radius: 30px;

        -moz-box-shadow: 0px 0px 1px 8px rgba(67, 201, 117, 0.2);

}

Since “background-clip: text”does not work in Firefox, this can animate the image.

Below are the properties for transitioning the text:

.it-wrapper h3.it-animate{

        background-size: 50%;

        background-position: 0% 50%, 130% 50%;

        color: rgba(242, 208, 20, 0.4);

        -moz-box-shadow: 0px 0px 1px 8px rgba(242, 208, 20, 0.4);

}

Sample 2

In this example, we can play around with gradients.

.it-wrapper h3{

        font-size: 270px;

        line-height: 180px;

        padding: 30px 30px 40px;

        color: rgba(255,255,255,0.1);

        font-family: 'Fascinate', 'Arial Narrow', Arial, sans-serif;

        text-shadow: 1px 1px 1px rgba(255,255,255,0.3);

        background:

               linear-gradient(

                       left,

                       rgba(105,94,127,0.54) 0%,

                       rgba(255,92,92,0.57) 15%,

                       rgba(255,160,17,0.59) 27%,

                       rgba(252,236,93,0.61) 37%,

                       rgba(255,229,145,0.63) 46%,

                       rgba(111,196,173,0.65) 58%,

                       rgba(106,132,186,0.67) 69%,

                       rgba(209,119,195,0.69) 79%,

                       rgba(216,213,125,0.7) 89%,

                       rgba(216,213,125,0.72) 100%

               ),

               repeating-linear-gradient(

                       -45deg,

                       rgba(255,255,255,0.5),

                       transparent 20px,

                       rgba(255,255,255,0.3) 40px

               );

        background-size: 300% 100%;

        background-position: center left, top left;

        -webkit-background-clip: text;

        -moz-background-clip: text;

        background-clip: text;

        transition: all 1.8s linear;

        -moz-border-radius: 90px 15px;

        -moz-box-shadow: 0px 0px 0px 10px rgba(255,255,255,0.4);

}

The border radius and box shadow are added for Firefox and animate box shadow color to match text.

.it-wrapper h3.it-animate{

        background-position: center right, top right;

        color: rgba(39,137,149,0.5);

        -moz-box-shadow: 0px 0px 0px 10px rgba(39,137,149, 0.9);

}

Sample 3

.it-wrapper h3{

        font-size: 180px;

        line-height: 180px;

        padding: 20px 30px;

        color: rgba(0,80,81,0.7);

        -webkit-text-stroke: 2px rgba(0,0,0,0.5);

        font-family: 'Gravitas One', 'Arial Narrow', Arial, sans-serif;

        text-shadow: 15px 15px 1px rgba(255,255,255,0.3);

        background-image: url(../images/3.jpg);

        background-repeat: no-repeat;

        background-position: center center;

        background-size: 400%;

        -webkit-background-clip: text;

        -moz-background-clip: text;

        background-clip: text;

        transition: all 0.3s linear;

        -moz-box-shadow:

               -10px -10px 0px rgba(255,255,255,0.4),

               10px 10px 0px rgba(0,81,81,0.4),

               0px 0px 50px 50px rgba(255,255,255,0.9) inset;

}

To get this cool effect for Firefox, opacity in RGBA value is changed, with added box shadow transition.

.it-wrapper h3.it-animate{

        background-size: 100%;

        color: rgba(0,80,81,0.1);

        -moz-box-shadow:

               -20px -20px 0px rgba(255,255,255,0.4),

               20px 20px 0px rgba(0,81,81,0.4),

               0px 0px 40px 0px rgba(255,255,255,0.4) inset ;

}