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You definitely should have seen those advanced CSS text effects for now already, they are rapidly getting popular as upcoming and current trend in good webdesign. The best thing about these effects is, it can be achieved with pure CSS, no more image replacements and image heavy web designs. In this article I showcased all the best explained CSS tutorials and typography tips I found and thought you definitely must read! Scroll through or definitely save this article to bookmarks so the next time you create new design in Photoshop with letterpress, shadowed etc. effects – you can create them just with pure code!
Typography takes also very important role in good web designs, so I strongly recommend to read articles I featured there as well! Enjoy and get inspired for your new, advanced web designs!
Yet another very similar tutorial about text gradients, but maybe you’ll like both variants trying to explain really how CSS text gradient effects work.
Article is based on the same technique as CSS text gradients using it to add grunge type effect to your typo!
Example from AlexBuga homepage.
Beautiful CSS&Javascript code offered by DragonInteractive teaching how to get two-color gradient text effects, shadows and highlights.
Make cool and clever text effects with css text-shadow. Very detailed article teaching you a lot of hidden tips how to achieve text glowing, embossing,shadowing with just few steps.
Pretty cool CSS background effect, which can be applied on hover giving a lot of options use it in creative way!
Beautiful article explaining simple but very effective CSS tricks how to achieve beautiful typography effects with just a few lines of code.
Nick La teaches how to apply right contrasts and flow in your webdesigns explaining why and what works and how to achieve that effect.
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Dainis Graveris is 23 years old blogger and designer, founder of 1stWebDesigner, now more silently managing everything behind the scenes. He usually hangs out in Twitter tweeting design related links and chatting with people. If you have any questions or feedback that's the best place to start! Cheers!
Saturday, March 31st, 2012 02:08
Number 8 – Text embossing link doesn’t work
Thursday, March 1st, 2012 12:27
Just start to use the power of css, cant wait to play around with these examples.
Sunday, February 19th, 2012 13:31
Awesome! I’ve been trying to figure out how to get that letterpressed/engraved text effect with CSS. Thanks for all the helpful tips and tutorials.
Thursday, February 16th, 2012 03:24
Very useful, thank you! There are some many amazing things that CSS can do.
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Saturday, May 8th, 2010 01:52
Thanks. really useful.
Jinson
Monday, February 8th, 2010 15:22
Nice collection, really useful
I liked the CSS Text Gradients most.
Jay
Sunday, February 7th, 2010 21:28
thanks. This is just what I was looking for!
Mustapha NAJAH
Tuesday, December 22nd, 2009 13:54
it has been aproximately 3 years that i work with CSS and i can not imagine that CSS has been ameliorated so far, really good works.