Glare Sweep

How it works

Glare Sweep is a static metallic & holographic text effect rendered entirely in CSS. It reacts to the pointer through CSS custom properties updated by a tiny inline script.

Controls

Glare Sweep exposes 2 dedicated controls — Tint and Tint Strength — 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

/* Glare Sweep — generated with TEXT-FX
 * HTML: needs the small pointer-move JS snippet.
 * Font: 'Space Grotesk', sans-serif (load from Google Fonts).
 */

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

.text-effect {
  --mx: 33%;
  --my: 30%;
  background: radial-gradient(circle at var(--mx) var(--my), hsl(0 0% 100% / 0.82) 0%, hsl(0 0% 100% / 0) 20%), linear-gradient(180deg, hsl(29 11% 90%) 0%, hsl(29 11% 52%) 46%, hsl(29 11% 72%) 60%, hsl(29 11% 52%) 100%);
  -webkit-background-clip: text;
  background-clip: text;
  -webkit-text-fill-color: transparent;
  color: transparent;
  filter: drop-shadow(0 2px 1px hsl(29 30% 6% / 0.4));
}

HTML

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

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

.text-effect {
  --mx: 33%;
  --my: 30%;
  background: radial-gradient(circle at var(--mx) var(--my), hsl(0 0% 100% / 0.82) 0%, hsl(0 0% 100% / 0) 20%), linear-gradient(180deg, hsl(29 11% 90%) 0%, hsl(29 11% 52%) 46%, hsl(29 11% 72%) 60%, hsl(29 11% 52%) 100%);
  -webkit-background-clip: text;
  background-clip: text;
  -webkit-text-fill-color: transparent;
  color: transparent;
  filter: drop-shadow(0 2px 1px hsl(29 30% 6% / 0.4));
}
</style>

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

<script>
const fx = document.querySelector('.text-effect');
if (fx) {
  fx.addEventListener('pointermove', (e) => {
    const r = fx.getBoundingClientRect();
    if (!r.width || !r.height) return;
    fx.style.setProperty('--mx', ((e.clientX - r.left) / r.width) * 100 + '%');
    fx.style.setProperty('--my', ((e.clientY - r.top) / r.height) * 100 + '%');
  });
  fx.addEventListener('pointerleave', () => {
    fx.style.removeProperty('--mx');
    fx.style.removeProperty('--my');
  });
}
</script>

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