Candy Gloss
Gradient Fill · Static · pure CSS
A wet hard-candy shell: a saturated vertical gradient clipped to the glyphs from bright sugary top to deep juicy base, topped with a soft white specular band across the upper third. A thin darker stroke contains the shine and a tight lift shadow gives it body — sweet and glossy, never metallic.
How it works
Candy Gloss is a static gradient fill text effect rendered entirely in CSS. It works on a single element — just add the .text-effect class, with no extra HTML.
Controls
Candy Gloss exposes 3 dedicated controls — Candy Hue, Gloss and Stroke — 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
/* Candy Gloss — made with TEXT-FX · https://text-fx.app
* HTML: just put the class on any element.
* Font: 'Syne', sans-serif (load from Google Fonts).
*/
.text-effect {
font-family: 'Syne', sans-serif;
font-weight: 400;
letter-spacing: 2px;
text-transform: none;
}
.text-effect {
background: linear-gradient(180deg,
rgba(255,255,255,0.6) 0%,
rgba(255,255,255,0.27) 15%,
rgba(255,255,255,0) 34%),
linear-gradient(180deg,
hsl(148 90% 74%) 0%,
hsl(148 95% 50%) 55%,
hsl(152 88% 30%) 100%);
-webkit-background-clip: text;
background-clip: text;
-webkit-text-fill-color: transparent;
color: transparent;
-webkit-text-stroke: 0.035em hsl(146 80% 15%);
filter: drop-shadow(0 1px 0 hsl(142 70% 12% / 0.55)) drop-shadow(0 4px 5px rgba(0,0,0,.42));
}
Pure CSS — just add the .text-effect class to any element.
- Category
- Gradient Fill
- Type
- Static
- Browser support
- background-clip:text (all modern, -webkit- prefixed)
- Capabilities
- pure