Hover Ripple

How it works

Hover Ripple is an animated interactive & advanced text effect rendered entirely in CSS. Each character is wrapped in its own span so it can animate independently — the HTML and JSX exports include that per-letter markup.

Controls

Hover Ripple exposes 3 dedicated controls — Hue, Lift and Twinkle — 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 Ripple — generated with TEXT-FX
 * HTML: each character is wrapped in a <span> — see the HTML export.
 * 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 {
  color: hsl(73 45% 78%);
  white-space: pre;
  cursor: pointer;
}
.text-effect .fx-ch {
  display: inline-block;
  transition: transform 0.35s cubic-bezier(0.2, 0.8, 0.3, 1.4), color 0.35s ease;
  transition-delay: calc(var(--i) * 0.045s);
  animation: text-effect-twinkle 3.5s ease-in-out infinite;
  animation-delay: calc(var(--i) * -0.15s);
}
.text-effect:hover .fx-ch {
  transform: translateY(-13px);
  color: hsl(73 55% 64%);
}

@keyframes text-effect-twinkle {
  0%, 100% { opacity: 0.9; }
  50% { opacity: 1; }
}

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 {
  color: hsl(73 45% 78%);
  white-space: pre;
  cursor: pointer;
}
.text-effect .fx-ch {
  display: inline-block;
  transition: transform 0.35s cubic-bezier(0.2, 0.8, 0.3, 1.4), color 0.35s ease;
  transition-delay: calc(var(--i) * 0.045s);
  animation: text-effect-twinkle 3.5s ease-in-out infinite;
  animation-delay: calc(var(--i) * -0.15s);
}
.text-effect:hover .fx-ch {
  transform: translateY(-13px);
  color: hsl(73 55% 64%);
}

@keyframes text-effect-twinkle {
  0%, 100% { opacity: 0.9; }
  50% { opacity: 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>

Related Interactive & Advanced effects

• Hover Spotlight
• Mirror Reflection
• Echo Trail
• Hover Glint
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