Hover Depth

Interactive & Advanced · Static · pure CSS

The word lies flat until hovered, then pops up off the page as a stacked shadow extrudes underneath. CSS-only interactive depth.

Hover Depth

How it works

Hover Depth is a static interactive & advanced text effect rendered entirely in CSS. It works on a single element — just add the .text-effect class, with no extra HTML.

Controls

Hover Depth exposes 3 dedicated controls — Hue, Depth and Speed — 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

/* Hover Depth — made with TEXT-FX · https://text-fx.app
 * HTML: just put the class on any element.
 * Font: 'Unbounded', sans-serif (load from Google Fonts).
 */

.text-effect {
  font-family: 'Unbounded', sans-serif;
  font-weight: 400;
  letter-spacing: 4px;
  text-transform: uppercase;
}

.text-effect {
  color: hsl(70 80% 70%);
  cursor: pointer;
  transition: transform 0.19s ease, text-shadow 0.19s ease;
}
.text-effect:hover {
  transform: translate(-2px, -2px);
  text-shadow: 1px 1px 0 hsl(70 35% 28%), 2px 2px 0 hsl(70 35% 28%), 3px 3px 0 hsl(70 35% 28%), 4px 4px 0 hsl(70 35% 28%);
}

Pure CSS — just add the .text-effect class to any element.

Category
Interactive & Advanced
Type
Static
Browser support
Extrudes on :hover via a stacked offset shadow — static preview is flat.
Capabilities
pure

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