Dock Magnify

How it works

Dock Magnify is an animated interactive & advanced 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

Dock Magnify exposes 4 dedicated controls — Hue, Magnify, Lift and Spread — 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

/* Dock Magnify — made with TEXT-FX · https://text-fx.app
 * HTML: each character is wrapped in a <span> — see the HTML export.
 * Font: 'Space Mono', monospace (load from Google Fonts).
 */

.text-effect {
  font-family: 'Space Mono', monospace;
  font-weight: 700;
  letter-spacing: -2px;
  text-transform: none;
}

.text-effect {
  color: hsl(349 22% 84%);
  white-space: pre;
  cursor: pointer;
  width: fit-content;
  margin-inline: auto;
  padding-bottom: 8px;
  background-image: radial-gradient(circle, hsl(349 45% 58% / 0.5) 0 1.1px, transparent 1.7px);
  background-size: 10px 10px;
  background-repeat: repeat-x;
  background-position: left bottom;
}
.text-effect .fx-ch {
  display: inline-block;
  position: relative;
  transform-origin: bottom center;
  transition: scale 0.3s cubic-bezier(0.34, 1.56, 0.64, 1), color 0.3s ease, text-shadow 0.3s ease;
}
.text-effect .fx-ch:hover {
  scale: 1.45;
  color: hsl(349 80% 70%);
  z-index: 3;
  text-shadow: 0 8px 12px hsl(349 40% 5% / 0.32);
}
.text-effect .fx-ch:hover + .fx-ch,
.text-effect .fx-ch:has(+ .fx-ch:hover) {
  scale: 1.248;
  z-index: 2;
  text-shadow: 0 4px 8.8px hsl(349 40% 5% / 0.32);
}
.text-effect .fx-ch:hover + .fx-ch + .fx-ch,
.text-effect .fx-ch:has(+ .fx-ch + .fx-ch:hover) {
  scale: 1.099;
  z-index: 1;
}

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: 'Space Mono', monospace;
  font-weight: 700;
  letter-spacing: -2px;
  text-transform: none;
}

.text-effect {
  color: hsl(349 22% 84%);
  white-space: pre;
  cursor: pointer;
  width: fit-content;
  margin-inline: auto;
  padding-bottom: 8px;
  background-image: radial-gradient(circle, hsl(349 45% 58% / 0.5) 0 1.1px, transparent 1.7px);
  background-size: 10px 10px;
  background-repeat: repeat-x;
  background-position: left bottom;
}
.text-effect .fx-ch {
  display: inline-block;
  position: relative;
  transform-origin: bottom center;
  transition: scale 0.3s cubic-bezier(0.34, 1.56, 0.64, 1), color 0.3s ease, text-shadow 0.3s ease;
}
.text-effect .fx-ch:hover {
  scale: 1.45;
  color: hsl(349 80% 70%);
  z-index: 3;
  text-shadow: 0 8px 12px hsl(349 40% 5% / 0.32);
}
.text-effect .fx-ch:hover + .fx-ch,
.text-effect .fx-ch:has(+ .fx-ch:hover) {
  scale: 1.248;
  z-index: 2;
  text-shadow: 0 4px 8.8px hsl(349 40% 5% / 0.32);
}
.text-effect .fx-ch:hover + .fx-ch + .fx-ch,
.text-effect .fx-ch:has(+ .fx-ch + .fx-ch:hover) {
  scale: 1.099;
  z-index: 1;
}
</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>

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