Bulge Text
Entrance & Kinetic · Animated · pure CSS
A fish-eye on the word: the center letters scale up and the ends taper via cos(), like a lens. Pops in on load.
How it works
Bulge Text is an animated entrance & kinetic text effect rendered entirely in CSS. Each character is wrapped in its own span so it can animate independently — the HTML and JSX exports include that per-letter markup.
Controls
Bulge Text exposes 4 dedicated controls — Hue, Falloff, Bulge and Pop-in — 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
/* Bulge Text — generated with TEXT-FX
* HTML: each character is wrapped in a <span> — see the HTML export.
* Font: 'Syne', sans-serif (load from Google Fonts).
*/
.text-effect {
font-family: 'Syne', sans-serif;
font-weight: 700;
letter-spacing: 8px;
text-transform: none;
}
.text-effect {
color: hsl(143 75% 74%);
letter-spacing: 0.08em;
white-space: pre;
}
.text-effect .fx-ch {
display: inline-block;
transform-origin: 50% 100%;
transform: scale(calc(1 + max(0, cos((var(--i) - var(--mid)) * 26deg)) * 0.52));
animation: text-effect-bulge 0.92s ease-out both;
animation-delay: calc(var(--i) * 0.035s);
}
@keyframes text-effect-bulge {
from { transform: scale(0.6); opacity: 0; }
}
HTML
This effect needs the markup below (per-letter spans, SVG defs, or a data-text attribute).
<style>
.text-effect {
font-family: 'Syne', sans-serif;
font-weight: 700;
letter-spacing: 8px;
text-transform: none;
}
.text-effect {
color: hsl(143 75% 74%);
letter-spacing: 0.08em;
white-space: pre;
}
.text-effect .fx-ch {
display: inline-block;
transform-origin: 50% 100%;
transform: scale(calc(1 + max(0, cos((var(--i) - var(--mid)) * 26deg)) * 0.52));
animation: text-effect-bulge 0.92s ease-out both;
animation-delay: calc(var(--i) * 0.035s);
}
@keyframes text-effect-bulge {
from { transform: scale(0.6); opacity: 0; }
}
</style>
<div class="text-effect">
<span class="fx-ch" style="--i:0;--n:9;--rev:8;--mid:4">Y</span>
<span class="fx-ch" style="--i:1;--n:9;--rev:7;--mid:4">o</span>
<span class="fx-ch" style="--i:2;--n:9;--rev:6;--mid:4">u</span>
<span class="fx-ch" style="--i:3;--n:9;--rev:5;--mid:4">r</span>
<span class="fx-ch" style="--i:4;--n:9;--rev:4;--mid:4"> </span>
<span class="fx-ch" style="--i:5;--n:9;--rev:3;--mid:4">t</span>
<span class="fx-ch" style="--i:6;--n:9;--rev:2;--mid:4">e</span>
<span class="fx-ch" style="--i:7;--n:9;--rev:1;--mid:4">x</span>
<span class="fx-ch" style="--i:8;--n:9;--rev:0;--mid:4">t</span>
</div>
- Category
- Entrance & Kinetic
- Type
- Animated
- Browser support
- All modern browsers
- Capabilities
- perLetter