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.

B u l g e   T e x t

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

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