Balloon
Retro & Themed · Animated · pure CSS
Glossy inflated balloon lettering — a radial latex highlight clipped to the glyphs with a rounded edge and a gentle inflate-deflate pulse.
How it works
Balloon is an animated retro & themed text effect rendered entirely in CSS. It works on a single element — just add the .text-effect class, with no extra HTML.
Controls
Balloon exposes 2 dedicated controls — Hue and Pulse — on top of the shared type controls (font, weight, letter-spacing and case). Open it in the generator to tune every value live, then copy the updated CSS.
CSS
/* Balloon — generated with TEXT-FX
* HTML: just put the class on any element.
* Font: 'Major Mono Display', monospace (load from Google Fonts).
*/
.text-effect {
font-family: 'Major Mono Display', monospace;
font-weight: 700;
letter-spacing: 8px;
text-transform: none;
}
.text-effect {
background: radial-gradient(60% 60% at 35% 28%, hsl(294 100% 88%) 0%, hsl(294 90% 58%) 45%, hsl(294 85% 42%) 100%);
-webkit-background-clip: text;
background-clip: text;
-webkit-text-fill-color: transparent;
color: transparent;
-webkit-text-stroke: 1px hsl(294 80% 36%);
filter: drop-shadow(0 6px 6px hsl(294 60% 6% / 0.4));
transform-origin: center bottom;
animation: text-effect-inflate 3.4s ease-in-out infinite;
}
@keyframes text-effect-inflate {
0%, 100% { transform: scale(1, 1); }
50% { transform: scale(1.04, 1.06); }
}
Pure CSS — just add the .text-effect class to any element.
- Category
- Retro & Themed
- Type
- Animated
- Browser support
- background-clip:text radial gloss + scale pulse
- Capabilities
- pure