Falling Letters

Entrance & Kinetic · Animated · pure CSS

Letters drop in from above, squash on landing and settle, staggered by index. A bouncy gravity entrance (per-letter markup).

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F a l l i n g   L e t t e r s

CSS

/* Falling Letters — generated with TEXT-FX
 * HTML: each character is wrapped in a <span> — see the HTML export.
 * Font: 'Recursive', sans-serif (load from Google Fonts).
 */

.text-effect {
  font-family: 'Recursive', sans-serif;
  font-weight: 700;
  letter-spacing: -1px;
  text-transform: uppercase;
}

.text-effect {
  color: hsl(187 75% 72%);
  white-space: pre;
}
.text-effect .fx-ch {
  display: inline-block;
  transform-origin: 50% 100%;
  animation: text-effect-fall 0.97s cubic-bezier(0.3, 0.7, 0.4, 1) both;
  animation-delay: calc(var(--i) * 98ms);
}

@keyframes text-effect-fall {
  0% { transform: translateY(-120%); opacity: 0; }
  55% { opacity: 1; }
  70% { transform: translateY(0); }
  82% { transform: translateY(0) scale(1.12, 0.82); }
  92% { transform: translateY(0) scale(0.96, 1.05); }
  100% { transform: translateY(0) scale(1, 1); }
}

HTML

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

<style>
.text-effect {
  font-family: 'Recursive', sans-serif;
  font-weight: 700;
  letter-spacing: -1px;
  text-transform: uppercase;
}

.text-effect {
  color: hsl(187 75% 72%);
  white-space: pre;
}
.text-effect .fx-ch {
  display: inline-block;
  transform-origin: 50% 100%;
  animation: text-effect-fall 0.97s cubic-bezier(0.3, 0.7, 0.4, 1) both;
  animation-delay: calc(var(--i) * 98ms);
}

@keyframes text-effect-fall {
  0% { transform: translateY(-120%); opacity: 0; }
  55% { opacity: 1; }
  70% { transform: translateY(0); }
  82% { transform: translateY(0) scale(1.12, 0.82); }
  92% { transform: translateY(0) scale(0.96, 1.05); }
  100% { transform: translateY(0) scale(1, 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>
Category
Entrance & Kinetic
Type
Animated
Browser support
All modern browsers
Capabilities
perLetter

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