20 CSS Text Shadow Effects

CSS is great tool to create beautiful effect like Shadow. It’s depend on your imagination how to create unique shadow effect. In this post we hand-picked Collection of free HTML and CSS text shadow effect code examples from html5editor, Codepen, GitHub and other resources.

1. Superhero Text Shadow Effect

Superhero Text Shadow Effect

Author Name

  • Nitin Kumar
  • May 30, 2022

Made With

HTML / CSS

Superhero text shadow effect with multiple shadow layer. To create this effect add three or four text-shadow properties with different shades of one color.

  • Compatible browsers:- Chrome, Edge, Firefox, Opera, Safari
  • Responsive:- No
  • Dependencies:- NO

2. Funky Retro Text Shadow

Funky Retro Text Shadow css

Funky retro style text-shadow effect look like cartoonist and gorgeous with “Luckiest Guy” goggle font.

Author Name

  • Miranda
  • Oct 6, 2020

Made With

HTML / CSS (SCSS)

  • Compatible browsers:- Chrome, Edge, Firefox, Opera, Safari
  • Responsive:- No
  • Dependencies:- NO

3. Outline Text Shadow With Fallback

Outline Text Shadow With Fallback

Outline Text Shadow effect With Fallback, Beautiful outer stroke create stunning effect.

Author Name

  • Eric Portis
  • March 31, 2021

Made With

HTML / CSS (SCSS)

  • Compatible browsers:- Chrome, Edge, Firefox, Opera, Safari
  • Responsive:- Yes
  • Dependencies:- NO

4. 3D CARTOON TEXT WITH CSS TEXT-SHADOW

3D CARTOON TEXT WITH CSS TEXT-SHADOW

Author Name

  • Fielding Johnston
  • Oct 15, 2018

Made With

HTML / CSS (SCSS)

Create a stunning 3d cartoon effect with text-shadow with “Luckiest Guy” goggle font.

  • Compatible browsers:- Chrome, Edge, Firefox, Opera, Safari
  • Responsive:- No
  • Dependencies:- NO

5. Rainbow Effect

rainbow shadow effect css

Author Name

  • Aakhya Singh
  • Nov 24, 2018

Made With

HTML / CSS (SCSS)

Rainbow text effect with css text-shadow.

  • Compatible browsers:- Chrome, Edge, Firefox, Opera, Safari
  • Responsive:- Yes
  • Dependencies:- NO

6. Groovy CSS Effect

See the Pen Groovy CSS Effect by Daniel Gonzalez (@dan10gc) on CodePen.

Author Name

  • Daniel Gonzalez
  • Feb 24, 2018

Made With

Pug(HTML) / CSS (SCSS)

Groovy css effect with text-shadow animation.

  • Compatible browsers:- Chrome, Edge, Firefox, Opera, Safari
  • Responsive:- Yes
  • Dependencies:- NO

7. Beautifully Outlined

Beautifully Outlined

Author Name

  • Aakhya Singh
  • Nov 18, 2018

Made With

HTML / CSS

Outlined glow text effect with text-shadow.

  • Compatible browsers:- Chrome, Edge, Firefox, Opera, Safari
  • Responsive:- Yes
  • Dependencies:- NO

8. PINCHY TYPE WITH CSS TEXT-SHADOW

Author Name

  • Bennett Feely
  • Aug 22, 2015

Made With

HTML / CSS(SCSS)

PINCHY TYPE WITH CSS TEXT-SHADOW

  • Compatible browsers:- Chrome, Edge, Firefox, Opera, Safari
  • Responsive:- Yes
  • Dependencies:- NO

9. Knockout Text

knockout text

Author Name

  • Aakhya Singh
  • Nov 17, 2018

Made With

HTML / CSS

Knockout text on css, in this effect background wrap on the text. This effect created with text-shadow and mix-blend-mode properties

  • Compatible browsers:- Chrome, Edge, Firefox, Opera, Safari
  • Responsive:- Yes
  • Dependencies:- NO

10. VARIABLE LONG SHADOW WITH GRADIENTS MIXIN

Author Name

  • Dario Corsi
  • April 15, 2016

Made With

HTML / CSS(SCSS)

  • Compatible browsers:- Chrome, Edge, Firefox, Opera, Safari
  • Responsive:- Yes
  • Dependencies:- NO

11. Multiple Colored Shadows

Multiple Colored Shadows

Multiple colored shadow with text-shadow property in css.

Author Name

  • Aakhya Singh
  • Nov 18, 2018

Made With

HTML / CSS

  • Compatible browsers:- Chrome, Edge, Firefox, Opera, Safari
  • Responsive:- Yes
  • Dependencies:- NO

12. Perspective View of 3D Text

Perspective View of 3D Text

Author Name

  • Aakhya Singh
  • Nov 18, 2018

Made With

HTML / CSS

Perspective view 3D text with multi layered text-shadow property.

  • Compatible browsers:- Chrome, Edge, Firefox, Opera, Safari
  • Responsive:- Yes
  • Dependencies:- NO

13. 3D Text Effect

3D text effect. It also multi layered text-shadow example.

Author Name

  • Sebastian Opperman
  • July 29, 2019

Made With

HTML / CSS

  • Compatible browsers:- Chrome, Edge, Firefox, Opera, Safari
  • Responsive:- No
  • Dependencies:- No

14. Layered Shadow

Author Name

  • Nitin Kumar
  • May 30, 2022

Made With

HTML / CSS

Another multi layered text-shadow effect. To create this effect you have to create multi layered text-shadow property with differet color adjusting to each other.

  • Compatible browsers:- Chrome, Edge, Firefox, Opera, Safari
  • Responsive:- No
  • Dependencies:- No

15. Funky Double Shadow

Funky Double Shadow

Author Name

  • Aakhya Singh
  • Nov 18, 2018

Made With

HTML / CSS

Funky double shadow effect. You can create this effect with two hard shadow and no blur. One shadow is color like background and shadow color like main text color.

  • Compatible browsers:- Chrome, Edge, Firefox, Opera, Safari
  • Responsive:- Yes
  • Dependencies:- No