Grain Gradient
Fill & Texture · Static · pure CSS
A restrained low-saturation gradient with a faint film grain dusted over the glyphs (SVG noise) — the matte, tactile gradient finish on modern brand type.
How it works
Grain Gradient is a static fill & texture 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
Grain Gradient exposes 3 dedicated controls — Hue, Hue Shift and Grain — 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
/* Grain Gradient — generated with TEXT-FX
* HTML: requires the inline <svg> filter defs — see the HTML export.
* Font: 'Bungee', cursive (load from Google Fonts).
*/
.text-effect {
font-family: 'Bungee', cursive;
font-weight: 700;
letter-spacing: 0px;
text-transform: uppercase;
}
.text-effect {
background: linear-gradient(105deg, hsl(200 56% 70%), hsl(253 50% 62%));
-webkit-background-clip: text;
background-clip: text;
-webkit-text-fill-color: transparent;
color: transparent;
filter: url(#text-effect-grain);
}
HTML
This effect needs the markup below (per-letter spans, SVG defs, or a data-text attribute).
<style>
.text-effect {
font-family: 'Bungee', cursive;
font-weight: 700;
letter-spacing: 0px;
text-transform: uppercase;
}
.text-effect {
background: linear-gradient(105deg, hsl(200 56% 70%), hsl(253 50% 62%));
-webkit-background-clip: text;
background-clip: text;
-webkit-text-fill-color: transparent;
color: transparent;
filter: url(#text-effect-grain);
}
</style>
<svg width="0" height="0" style="position:absolute" aria-hidden="true"><defs>
<filter id="text-effect-grain">
<feTurbulence type="fractalNoise" baseFrequency="0.85" numOctaves="2" seed="3" stitchTiles="stitch" result="noise"/>
<feColorMatrix in="noise" type="matrix" values="0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.15 0" result="grain"/>
<feComposite in="grain" in2="SourceGraphic" operator="in" result="textGrain"/>
<feMerge>
<feMergeNode in="SourceGraphic"/>
<feMergeNode in="textGrain"/>
</feMerge>
</filter>
</defs></svg>
<div class="text-effect">Your text</div>
- Category
- Fill & Texture
- Type
- Static
- Browser support
- background-clip:text gradient + SVG fractal-noise grain confined to the text
- Capabilities
- svgDefs