Chalkboard

How it works

Chalkboard is a static retro & themed text effect rendered entirely in CSS. It relies on an inline SVG <defs> block (filters, gradients or clip-paths), which the HTML export carries alongside the CSS.

Controls

Chalkboard exposes 2 dedicated controls — Chalk Tint and Roughness — 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

/* Chalkboard — made with TEXT-FX · https://text-fx.app
 * HTML: requires the inline <svg> filter defs — see the HTML export.
 * Font: 'Archivo Black', sans-serif (load from Google Fonts).
 */

.text-effect {
  font-family: 'Archivo Black', sans-serif;
  font-weight: 700;
  letter-spacing: 2px;
  text-transform: none;
}

.text-effect {
  color: hsl(45 18% 90%);
  filter: url(#text-effect-chalk);
  text-shadow: 0 0 1px hsl(45 20% 95% / 0.35), 0 0 3px hsl(45 20% 95% / 0.35);
}

HTML

This effect needs the markup below (per-letter spans, SVG defs, or a data-text attribute).

<!-- Made with TEXT-FX · https://text-fx.app -->

<style>
.text-effect {
  font-family: 'Archivo Black', sans-serif;
  font-weight: 700;
  letter-spacing: 2px;
  text-transform: none;
}

.text-effect {
  color: hsl(45 18% 90%);
  filter: url(#text-effect-chalk);
  text-shadow: 0 0 1px hsl(45 20% 95% / 0.35), 0 0 3px hsl(45 20% 95% / 0.35);
}
</style>

<svg width="0" height="0" style="position:absolute" aria-hidden="true"><defs>
<filter id="text-effect-chalk" x="-15%" y="-15%" width="130%" height="130%">
  <feTurbulence type="fractalNoise" baseFrequency="0.9" numOctaves="2" seed="11" result="n"/>
  <feDisplacementMap in="SourceGraphic" in2="n" scale="2" xChannelSelector="R" yChannelSelector="G"/>
</filter>
</defs></svg>

<div class="text-effect">Your text</div>

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