Gradient Follow

How it works

Gradient Follow is an animated gradient fill text effect rendered entirely in CSS. It reacts to the pointer through CSS custom properties updated by a tiny inline script.

Controls

Gradient Follow exposes 2 dedicated controls — Hue 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

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

.text-effect {
  font-family: 'Unbounded', sans-serif;
  font-weight: 900;
  letter-spacing: 2px;
  text-transform: none;
}

.text-effect {
  --mx: 50%;
  --my: 50%;
  background: radial-gradient(circle at var(--mx) var(--my), hsl(70 95% 66%) 0%, hsl(157 95% 62%) 32%, hsl(244 92% 62%) 62%, hsl(331 85% 58%) 100%);
  -webkit-background-clip: text;
  background-clip: text;
  -webkit-text-fill-color: transparent;
  color: transparent;
  filter: drop-shadow(0 0 12px hsl(70 90% 58% / 0.4));
}

HTML

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

<style>
.text-effect {
  font-family: 'Unbounded', sans-serif;
  font-weight: 900;
  letter-spacing: 2px;
  text-transform: none;
}

.text-effect {
  --mx: 50%;
  --my: 50%;
  background: radial-gradient(circle at var(--mx) var(--my), hsl(70 95% 66%) 0%, hsl(157 95% 62%) 32%, hsl(244 92% 62%) 62%, hsl(331 85% 58%) 100%);
  -webkit-background-clip: text;
  background-clip: text;
  -webkit-text-fill-color: transparent;
  color: transparent;
  filter: drop-shadow(0 0 12px hsl(70 90% 58% / 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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