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Some holiday text effects. There are definitely better ways to do these now but use it for inspiration
https://codepen.io/collection/Xeovzj
Not an April Fools Joke - I added a Webring to my blogs, now you can navigate between http://variablefonts.dev, http://texteffects.dev and http://textlab.dev via the joy of my Webring. I'm immensely happy with this addition - taking suggestions for a better name.
Variable Fonts for Developers

Variable fonts for developers, a collection of fun experiments, effects, demos, articles, font lists, and stuff I have learned as a developer about variable fonts

Variable Fonts for Developers

New post on variablefonts.dev featuring Honk by EK Type Foundary
the variable color font available on Google Fonts, it's perfect for Batman text (and more). *Warning one of these demos is a bit of an assault on the eyes.

https://variablefonts.dev/posts/honk-variable-font

Honk Variable Font

A fun, bold Variable Color font with a 8 built in colour palettes, its variable axes provide so many options for text effects it's practically endless.

Variable Fonts for Developers

New post on TextEffects.dev for creating a "Flickering Neon Glowing Text Effect". Video tutorial will come later in the week.

Post: https://texteffects.dev/posts/flickering-text-effect

Codepen: https://codepen.io/mandymichael/pen/aJLYVz

Flickering Glowing Text Effect with CSS

An animated flickering glowing light text effect with CSS and text shadows

Text Effects
A really cool sound I discovered playing with my kid.

Latest Text Effect Tutorial - Creating icy, frozen, text effect with CSS and HTML (with a little bonus animation).
https://texteffects.dev/posts/ice-text-effect

Youtube Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bO3-0G-l3bg
Codepen: https://codepen.io/mandymichael/pen/wpYQKx
The Playground (no code) texteffects.dev/icetext

Ice Text Effect with CSS

Create a CSS only Ice Text Effect using CSS Gradients and text shadows to create text that looks like its frozen.

Text Effects

New Website: https://TextEffects.dev
First post featured: Creating Gold Text with CSS
Post: https://texteffects.dev/posts/gold-text-effect
Just the Effect: https://texteffects.dev/goldtext
Video Tutorial: https://youtu.be/ZbiBmpPZ8zU?si=EeUjt0qEs-ni7ZdG

(Can't change the youtube channel url for 14 days so i'm stuck for now 😅)

Text Effects

Articles exploring the world of text effects using CSS, HTML, and JavaScript

Text Effects

I am absolutely thrilled that I was selected to speak at NDC Conferences in Oslo in June! I'm even more excited that it's for my talk on "Performance and Accessibility with HTML". It makes me so happy to have the opportunity to help people improve performance and accessibility utilising something they already use, just a bit better! HTML is so much more useful and powerful than you might expect!

If you're attending, in the area, I hope to see you there! https://ndcoslo.com

NDC Oslo 2025 | Conference for Software Developers

NDC Oslo 2025 is a 5-Day Event for Software Developers, 19-23 May in Oslo Spektrum.

NDC

A little post about using data-attributes and the CSS Content property for things like Text Effects and why it's problematic for accessibility. Plus, what you can do to make it accessible.

https://textlab.dev/posts/data-attributes-and-text-effects

The problem with data-attributes for text effects

Data-attributes are a simple and easy way to create layers for text effects on the web, but they are problematic for accessibility.

Text Lab

I wrote up a quick post on TextLab on View Transitions in Chrome, by having it transition from one page to another with a clip-path animation. Recreating a text effect

This only works in Chrome and Edge at the moment but it was fun to play with.

https://textlab.dev/posts/view-transitions-text-transition

Text Transition with View Transitions

The View Transition API enables animated transitions between two page states. Available in Chrome 111+ I had a play with it to see if I could make some fun text based transitions.

Text Lab